The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's drug evaluation chief, Richard Pazdur, is set to retire just weeks after taking the new role, a spokesperson for the health regulator said on Tuesday. read more
The Trump administration is backing Monsanto in its effort to convince the Supreme Court to shield the company from liability over cancer claims related to its Roundup weedkiller, a move that could anger Trump allies in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. read more
A man has become the seventh person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. read more
Dec 2 (Reuters) -- The city of San Francisco sued Kraft, Mondelez, Coca-Cola, and other makers of ultra-processed foods on Tuesday, accusing them of knowingly sickening California residents with addictive and harmful products. City Attorney David Chiu filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging the companies employed tactics similar to those used by the tobacco industry to design and market products intended to addict consumers. The lawsuit accuses the companies of violating California laws on public nuisance and deceptive marketing. read more
It worries me that it's so normalised. He obviously wasn't hiding it. He didn't feel this was something he shouldn't be doing. It was in the open and people saw it. That's what was quite shocking." A headteacher is describing how a teenage boy, sitting on a bus on his way home from school, casually pulled out his phone, selected a picture from social media of a girl at a neighbouring school and used a "nudifying" app to doctor her image. read more
12. My wife's been on Medicare six years. The COLA increase and the basic Medicare premium usually move in lockstep. If one goes up x percent a year, the other goes up by x.25. And I understood that before these times, it was ever thus.
If this formula changes drastically, there'll be hell to pay.