Recently in the news, a sophisticated study conducted jointly by the University of California San Diego and Harvard Medical School demonstrated happiness spreads far and wide through a social network, even to people up to three degrees removed. The researchers also found that happiness spreads more robustly than unhappiness and seems to have a... Read more
In November of 2008, Governor Paterson of New York State announced that state aid to schools and hospitals would be cut sharply, and as a result thousands of state workers would be asked to defer five days of pay under an emergency deficit reduction plan. Other states quickly followed suite with similar plans, including South Carolina, where the... Read more
The Wall Street Journal reported in its December 17, 2008 issue results of a study sponsored by federal regulators that found pharmacies too often fail to provide consumers with important drug safety information in the printed materials stapled to or inserted in the bags containing filled prescriptions for customers. Pharmacies were also... Read more
Much publicity and controversy have surrounded the question of drug safety in recent years. As a result, the amount of efficacy data requested by the FDA for pre-market approval (PMA) of a prescription drug now pales in relation to the volumes of data aimed at proving a new drug to be safe. Unprecedented attention is also being given, with good... Read more
You may have spotted a brief news report in recent years about stem cell research conducted in Austria and more recently in Canada for treating urinary incontinence. Now the first U.S. stem cell trial for stress urinary incontinence is getting underway, with FDA approval, at Beaumont Hospital in Detroit.
This novel research uses the... Read more
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