Category: Regulations
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The Resurgence of “They Did Surgery on a Grape”
If a machine can carry out a delicate surgical task on something as vulnerable and soft as a grape, we begin to wonder whether such machines could be put to work on people too.
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Recap – Editas Medicine Advances Crispr Therapy
Editas Medicine received the go-ahead to conduct a clinical trial using the genome editing technique Crispr.
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Infographic – HIV Infections Growing in Eastern Europe
While much attention is focused on the continuing AIDS and HIV crisis in Africa, countries in Eastern Europe are also facing growing numbers of HIV infections.
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Achieving Health And Safety In Our Most Dangerous Industries
Health and safety in the workplace is crucial no matter which industry you’re involved in.
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FDA Approves Biomarker-Targeting Cancer Drug
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a treatment for solid tumor cancers that focuses on specific cancer-causing genetic conditions rather than location of the cancer in the body.
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U.K. Pharmas, Regulators Agree on Faster Drug Review
Drug makers and regulators in the U.K. agreed on new review processes for more effective therapies in company pipelines, in exchange for caps on branded drug sales, which is expected to save £930 million ($US 1.2 billion) next year.
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Infographic – Greatest Human Health Risks
It turns out the greatest current risk to the world’s health may be in the air we breathe.
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Trial Shows Treatment Prevents Peanut Allergy Reactions
Final results from a clinical trial show a preventive treatment desensitizes children and adolescents with peanut allergies against reaction-causing proteins in peanuts for one year.
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Faster Crop Breeding Techniques Made Available to Other Scientists
Plant scientists in the U.K. and Australia are making available to their colleagues experimental techniques that speed-up breeding cycles for more commercial crop varieties.
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Survey Shows Sharp Rise in Teen E-Cigarette Use
New data from a continuing survey of smoking among school-age children shows large increases in electronic cigarette use in high school and middle school children in just the past year.