food and drug administration
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Say Goodbye to Those Absurd Side-Effects Readouts in American Drug Commercials
Drug commercials in the U.S. are set to become more intelligible. On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration updated its regulations regarding prescription drug ads that air on TV or radio. The change will specifically mandate that a drug’s side effects and other potential dangers “must be presented in a clear, conspicuous, and neutral manner.”…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Learned What ‘Permanently Suspended’ Means on Twitter Today, Kind of
Twitter on Sunday banned the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia and frequent peddler of misinformation, after she tweeted about “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.” Greene’s statement was false, and it was her last strike on the platform, literally.
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Stop Using ArtNaturals Hand Sanitisers, FDA Warns After Detecting Cancer-Causing Chemicals
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stay away from a popular brand of hand sanitiser, following tests that confirmed the presence of carcinogens in some of its products. The products are sold under the ”Artnaturals” label and have been readily available online through Amazon and other online retailers. The public warning…
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Judge Orders Hospital to Give Severely Ill Covid-19 Patient Ivermectin
A judge in Ohio has issued an emergency order telling a hospital to treat a coronavirus patient with ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug being promoted widely by right-wing personalities as a covid-19 treatment and prophylactic. Though it’s being studied for that purpose, ivermectin currently doesn’t have good data to back it up as a covid-19 treatment.…