Category: Regulations
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Cannabis Drug Approved by FDA for Rare, Severe Seizures
A drug based on chemicals derived from cannabis plants was approved by Food and Drug Administration for marketing in the U.S. to treat seizures associated with two rare and severe forms of epilepsy.
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Is Your Home Business Legal?
If you are starting up, or already have, here are some things that you need to do, to ensure your business is legal.
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Infographic – Where the World Ships its Plastic Waste
Our friends at Statista posted a chart underscoring the great urgency for this kind of plastic material, this weekend’s infographic.
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FDA Issues Guidance on Patient Experience Data Collection
The Food and Drug Administration issued draft regulatory guidance outlining methods for collecting data from patients that the agency says will help improve evaluations of more precisely targeted drugs.
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Infographic – Cloning Gains More U.S. Support
Although still a minority, about 4 in 10 of those polled by the Gallup organization in May of 2018 say they find the cloning of animals morally acceptable, a marked increase from 2010 and 2002.
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FDA Delays Crispr Trial for Inherited Blood Diseases
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration put a hold on beginning a clinical trial of the emerging genome editing technique known as Crispr to treat inherited blood disorders.
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Immunotherapy Trial Shows Increased Brain Cancer Survival
Results from a clinical trial show an experimental treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer that harnesses the immune system extends patients’ survival, when combined with standard cancer care.
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FDA Okays A.I.-Guided Wrist Fracture Software
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing of software to help diagnose wrist fractures using machine-learning algorithms to read and interpret X-ray images.
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FDA Urges More Industry Sun Protection Research
The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking companies making sunscreen to conduct more research on the safety of products that protect against harmful sun rays.
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Trial Testing Gene-Edited, Modified Oilseed Plants
An agricultural science lab in the U.K. is beginning research on sustainable methods for growing genome-edited camelina plants, along with modifying the plant’s genetics by adding genes from other plant species.