As to why, Price said the jury is still out. “Our patients were not healthier. They had the same co-morbidities as everywhere else in the country. But I think it’s because we developed a totally unbiased protocol. We based our judgment calls on who and when to give the drug based on specific threshold criteria,… Read More »
SATURDAY, May 23, 2020 — There have been high hopes that the antiviral drug remdesivir might be an answer to the pandemic of COVID-19. But a major, new study finds the drug on its own won’t be enough to significantly curb cases and deaths. The study, published May 22 in the New England Journal of… Read More »
A lot of research on the ability of moderate exercise to curtail cigarette cravings has amounted to an apparent contradiction: it appears to be effective in short term, controlled laboratory studies, but ineffective in treatment studies. The conclusion suggested in the outcomes of one study is that although exercise helps improve the mood of smokers… Read More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported 46 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, while the city of Wuhan, the pandemic’s ground zero, announced it would be loosening a two-month lockdown by gradually resuming public transportation and allowing healthy people to resume work. It was the fourth day in a row with an increase in Chinese cases, all… Read More »
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For months, Juul Labs has had a clear, unwavering message for officials in Washington: The e-cigarette giant is committed to doing all it can to keep its hugely popular vaping products away from teenagers. But here in Columbia, the South Carolina capital, and in statehouses and city halls across the country, a… Read More »
Regulators are considering prohibiting some e-cigarette sales in convenience stores and confining them to vape shops, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday.