Pink Sheet, June 13, 2024: NCHR quoted from FDA listening session on optimizing the advisory committee process.
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STAT, June 8, 2024: Our Letter to the Editor at STAT News disagreed with the first Opinion commentary urging more use of antipsychotics for dementia patients. We explain that these drugs too often kill older patients or serve as chemical straight jackets,
Read More »Representatives ponder balance of regulation, innovation in health care
Medical Economics, May 9, 2024: House Small Business Committee hearing focused on when government regulations undermine medical innovation and services but also agreed on the need to ensure safe and effective medical products.
Read More »FDA Brings Lab Tests Under Its Oversight
MedPage Today, April 29, 2024: FDA issues the final rule for lab-developed tests (LDTs) and we explain that the rule has a giant deadly loophole allowing thousands of diagnostic tests and genetic tests for cancer and other deadly diseases to be sold without evidence they are accurate.
Read More »Feds declare turf, rubber playgrounds “generally safe’
Politico E&E NEWS, April 18, 2024: EPA released its 2024 report on artificial turf, which says it contains dangerous chemicals but that the exposures are “generally safe.’ NCHR’s Dr. Diana Zuckerman asks what does that mean? If it is generally safe that means it isn’t safe for everyone, but EPA doesn’t explain how many will be harmed and doesn’t explain what is known and not known. It’s not credible.
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