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3Qs: The future of Plan B
The Obama administration and federal courts are wrangling over changes to the regulations governing access to emergency contraceptives. The administration supports new rules that would allow girls as...
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Last month, the Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company Vertex announced that the federal Food and Drug Administration had approved its new drug to treat Hepatitis C, Incivek. The drug took two...
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This summer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled graphic new cigarette warning labels that will be required to appear on packages starting next year. We talked to law professor Richard...
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What makes cancer gene therapy so groundbreaking?
On July 12, a Food and Drug Administration panel unanimously recommended approval for the first-ever gene therapy treatment for cancer. The treatment, known as CTL019, is a T-cell therapy developed by...
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Northeastern expert trains countries to approve FDA-approved life-saving...
In a new type of cancer treatment called immunotherapy, doctors reprogram cells from a patient’s own immune system to fight and kill tumors. The approach has been shown to work in some cases where all...
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E-cigarettes may be safer, but that doesn’t mean they’re safe
E-cigarettes have been marketed as the new, safer way to smoke. But scientists say they don’t know enough about the long-term health hazards. E-cigarettes may not be as safe as we’ve been led to...
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