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1st-of-its-kind menopause drug targets brain misfiring behind hot flashes

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new pill for moderate to severe hot flashes.

LiveScience

Families scramble to find growth hormone drug as shortage drags on

Children who need growth hormone to achieve their full stature are having trouble getting the medicine. A shortage has stretched months longer than expected and could last the rest of the year.

WEKU

The biggest startup flameouts of the last decade

Vice now joins an ignominious club of well-funded flameouts.

Axios

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Menstrual Products Are Wildly Unregulated — Here’s What to Watch Out For

Amid calls for more disclosure and research into the health effects of these products, some states require more transparency.

Inverse

Restaurant’s sushi roll blamed for poisoning 41 and killing 2

The fatal victims ordered the “special roll,” which contained salmon and morel mushrooms

The Independent UK

New menopause drug for hot flashes gets FDA approval

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of drug to treat hot flashes caused by menopause

The Independent UK

An obscure 1800s law is shaping up to be the center of the next abortion battle – legal scholars explain what's behind the Victorian-era Comstock Act

Anti-abortion groups are looking for new ways to wage their battle against abortion rights, eyeing the potential implications of a 150-year-old law, the Comstock Act, that could effectively lead to a nationwide abortion ban.

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Gene therapy helps combat some forms of blindness – and ongoing clinical trials are looking to extend these treatments to other diseases

An estimated 295 million people suffer from visual impairment globally. Around 43 million of those people are living with blindness. While not every form of blindness can be cured, recent scientific breakthroughs have uncovered new ways to treat some forms of inherited blindness through gene therapy.

The Conversation

More gay and bisexual men will now be able to donate blood under finalized FDA rules

While the number of people eligible to donate blood has expanded, the agency says it will continue to monitor the safety of the blood supply.

WEKU

US relaxes restrictions for gay, bisexual men to donate blood

Updated guidelines will replace three-month abstinence rule that LGBTQ advocates had long decried as discriminatory.

Al Jazeera

Restaurant’s sushi roll blamed for poisoning 41 and killing 2 in Montana

The fatal victims ordered the “special roll,” which contained salmon and morel mushrooms

The Independent UK

New blood donation rules allow more gay men to give in US

New blood donations rules will allow sexually active gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships to give in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration guidelines ease decades-old restrictions on blood donations put in place to protect the blood supply from HIV

The Independent UK

CNN Gave Trump a Megaphone and He Used It Exactly as You'd Expect

Plus: American conservatives are becoming more European, FDA approves birth control "mini pill" for over-the-counter sale, and more...

Reason

Raab accusers ‘wouldn’t do it again’ thanks to ‘flawed’ process, says union boss

Dave Penman said Rishi Sunak’s handling of the investigation into Dominic Raab had been ‘appalling’.

The Independent UK

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Roll Call

FDA finalizes new rules on blood donations - Roll Call

The FDA ends blanket restrictions on donations from LGBT men, responding to pressure from advocates, blood banks and public health groups.

The Guardian - UK

Senior civil servants vote to take a stand against bullying from politicians

FDA union votes to use ‘all means available’, including ‘targeted legal action’ in wake of Dominic Raab scandal

The Independent UK

Civil service union chief calls for strikes, saying ‘enough is enough’

Dave Penman condemned claims civil servants were ‘lazy, woke, inefficient, Remainer, activist, snowflakes’.

The Guardian - UK

Stop calling us woke, lazy snowflakes, senior civil servant tells government

General secretary of FDA union makes plea to Rishi Sunak after multiple ‘culture war’ incidents

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FDA weighs potential over-the-counter birth control pill - Roll Call

FDA advisers were asked to assess whether consumers would use the pill properly if it were sold on store shelves without a prescription.

Daily Mirror

Birth control pills should be sold without prescription in US, health advisers say

The panel of Federal Health Advisers (FDA) voted unanimously in favour of drugmaker Perrigo’s request to sell its once-a-day medication over the counter

Reason

FDA Might Approve Over-the-Counter Sales of One Birth Control Pill. Now It's Time To Approve All the Rest.

Why won’t the FDA allow women to buy a safer product without requiring a doctor’s visit that medical experts think is unnecessary?

WEKU

Advisers to the FDA back first over-the-counter birth control pill

In a unanimous vote, 17-0, a panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the agency approve the first over-the-counter birth control pill.

The Independent UK

FDA panel backs over-the-counter birth control pill

Federal health advisers are recommending that a decades-old birth control pill be sold without a prescription

Axios

FDA experts unanimously endorse over-the-counter birth control pills

A final decision from the FDA is expected to come at some point this summer.

The Conversation

FDA's approval of the world's first vaccine against RSV will offer a new tool in an old fight – 4 questions answered

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the world’s first vaccine to prevent the respiratory infection RSV, short for respiratory syncytial virus, on May 3, 2023. The new shot represents six decades of starts and stops in the hunt for a vaccine to curb one of the most common winter…

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