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Article FDA: Following a 2018 draft framework, FDA unveils long-awaited PDURS draft guidance

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Following a 2018 draft framework, FDA unveils long-awaited PDURS draft guidance A long-awaited draft guidance on Prescription Drug Use-Related Software (PDURS) outlines when information from digital health tools could be represented on prescription drug labeling. Digital technologies as drug labeling: An intro to PDURS What is PDURS?

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Significantly fewer births on weekends and holidays than weekdays, data analysis of over 21 million births from 1979-2018 in Japan shows

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Significantly more babies were born on a weekday instead of weekend day or holiday, reveals a large-scale analysis of 21 million births in Japan over almost four decades published February 14, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Miho Sassa from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues.

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Household Radon Can Lead to Lung Cancer -- Has Your Home Been Tested?

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- Kentucky resident Chasity Harney embraced a thoroughly healthy lifestyle -- eating right, exercising and never touching tobacco.So, her 2018 diagnosis of advanced lung cancer, which came at the age of 40, was a complete.

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Clients Got HIV Through 'Vampire Facial' Microneedling Treatments

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FRIDAY, April 26, 2024 (HealthDay) -- Between 2018 and the spring of 2023, a cluster of clients who had gotten 'vampire facial' microneedling skin treatments at a New Mexico spa were diagnosed with HIV, probably via poorly cleaned instruments, a new.

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Almost a Third of U.S. Retail Pharmacies Have Closed Since 2010

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4, 2024 -- About a third of America’s pharmacies have closed since 2010, amounting to an “unprecedented decline” in neighborhood drug stores, a new study finds.The drop began in 2018, primarily driven by store closures among chain ph. WEDNESDAY, Dec.

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FDA Approved Oncology Drugs 2023

Crown Bioscience

This marks the second-highest count in the past 30 years, with the highest being 59 new drug approvals in 2018 and represents an impressive 50% increase in drugs approved in 2022. In a significant development, the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) approved 55 new drugs in 2023.

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Atmospheric blocking slows ocean-driven melting of Greenland's largest glacier tongue

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Experts have however now determined that the temperature of the water flowing into the glacier cavern declined from 2018 to 2021, even though the ocean has steadily warmed in the region over the past several decades. This could be due to temporarily changed atmospheric circulation patterns.

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