Two are now in clinical trials and involve replacement skin grown in a lab and a “spray-on” skin process, according to a report by Terri Moon Cronk of American Forces Press Service.
After no confirmed cases were reported in Texas last year, there have been 11 thus far in 2013.
The Sept. 9 hearing by the U.S. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs will examine the department's approach to stopping preventable deaths, according to the chairman.
The FDA's latest action, involving bacterial infections potentially associated with a compounding pharmacy's product, shows the Pharmaceutical Quality, Security, and Accountability Act should be enacted, the HELP chairman said.
The plan by Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands and colleagues in the United States and Hong Kong is to study how the H7N9 variant might become infectious person to person.
The company said it is believed to be the first clinical lab to offer testing for variants in all cytochrome P450 genes known to influence the CYP450 enzyme system, which affects the metabolism of opioids.
It's a possible alternative to IV antibiotics that are administered for up to eight weeks in the hospital, according to the authors.
Oct. 1’s third keynote session, a new addition to the educational program this year, looks like a "must attend" session of its own: the Prescription Drug Keynote.
The report says FDA's authority to oversee drug compounding is "unclear," and two federal circuit court decisions resulted in differing authority in different parts of the country.
Mixing novel technologies and methods with increased diligence in patient room decontamination is key to improving infection prevention.
The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 included a mandate to do this, with the first report to be provided to Congress by Feb. 14, 2014.
Thirty years old, it's scheduled to be replaced in 2015.
The agency announced that from April 2012 to March 2013, more than 6,000 unemployed or underemployed Tennessee workers were enrolled in training programs.
Its advance notice of proposed rulemaking is accompanied by a non-regulatory document, an independently produced "Preliminary Scientific Evaluation of the Possible Public Health Effects of Menthol Versus Nonmenthol Cigarettes."
Up to $24 million per year for four years will be awarded to establish six to eight of them.
The agency is sharing information about injury prevention with 2,500 employers, unions, and associations in the health care industry in Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
That was the consensus during a July 17 meeting of the Emergency Committee. The committee will reconvene in September, if not earlier.
WHO's latest report says 2.3 billion people worldwide are covered by a least one measure limiting tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.
The agency's Nuclear Data Section's Isotope Browser will provide quick information on the properties of more than 4,000 isotopes.
American Medical Association President Dr. Ardis D. Hoven called a new study "a wake-up call about the need to reduce the burden of chronic disease for America's patients."