The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an accelerated approval for a pill that could treat people with advanced lung cancer and a specific gene mutation and who didn’t respond to conventional therapies.
Guinea has already released 68 people from Ebola quarantine, the last batch so far, on Saturday, Nov 14, as the country is gearing to be declared Ebola free following a week of no detected or reported case.
Colombia is set to legalize marijuana production for medicinal or therapeutic use through a presidential decree at any time, says the country’s health ministry on Thursday, Nov 12.
A consumer watchdog is suing General Mills, one of the biggest makers of breakfast cereals including Cheerios, for misleading or false advertising over one of its products.
The FDA has issued new rules that are designed help prevent large-scale outbreaks of deadly foodborne illnesses like those that have been linked to fresh produce.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said that the chemical is unlikely to cause cancer in humans. The agency proposed a higher limit on the allowable daily amount of residue of the popular weed killer in foods.
A new study suggests that a common treatment to deadly MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus areus) can actually make a person sicker by causing inflammation and tissue damage, increasing the need of a more accurate guideline in issuing antibiotics.
Nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been discharged from the Royal Free Hospital in London to a hospital in her native Scotland. Cafferkey was hospitalized in October after suffering from a serious relapse of Ebola.
