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Sparking controversy | Rise in e-cigarette use has public health experts questioning their safety, effectiveness as harm-reduction device
By Steven Ross Johnson | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The rise of electronic cigarettes has triggered a sharp debate over whether the devices can play a role in helping the nation's estimated 44 million adult smokers kick their habit.
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Late News: FDA delivers rule on medical device identifiers
By Modern Healthcare | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The Food and Drug Administration delivered its final rule on a long-awaited regime to place unique identifiers on medical devices, a system that promises to improve patient safety and make hospital supply operations more efficient. But it will take another seven years to roll out the system.
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Obese cancer patients often shorted on chemo doses
By Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press | September 20, 2013
Obese people are less likely to survive cancer, and one reason may be a surprising inequality: The overweight are undertreated.
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Suspected human hair in tablet cited in FDA's Ranbaxy import ban
By Reuters via Yahoo | September 18, 2013
During a visit to a facility of leading Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories last year, U.S. inspectors found that a black fiber embedded in a tablet may have been a hair from an employee's arm.
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E-cigarette use doubled among youth in 2012, researchers find
By Steven Ross Johnson | September 06, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The percentage of young people who use electronic cigarettes doubled in 2012 compared with the previous year, according to federal researchers.
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Work group suggests limited regulation of health IT by FDA
By Joseph Conn | September 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Health information technology should not, as a general rule, be subject to pre-market regulation by the Food and Drug Administration as many medical devices are today, according to a work group giving advice to three federal regulatory agencies.
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3-D-printed medical devices spark FDA evaluation
By LiveScience | September 03, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration currently treats devices made from 3-D printing the same way it treats conventionally made medical devices. But because 3-D-printed products are made using a different manufacturing method than used for traditional medical devices, they could require additional or...
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E-cigarette use penalized | Some employers imposing tobacco-use fees
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Cigarette makers' growing move into electronic cigarettes is facing new resistance from large employers.
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UC Davis doctors who tried experimental treatment resign
By KTVU (Oakland, Calif.) | August 26, 2013
Two California neurosurgeons who infected brain-cancer patients with bowel bacteria in an effort to save their lives have resigned their positions at the University of California at Davis after officials concluded their actions violated the school's code of conduct.
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Working to keep reform on track | A changing industry poses challenges for healthcare leaders across all sectors
By Andis Robeznieks | August 24, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Now really, who else could it be? Is anyone else other than Kathleeen Sebelius managing a $941 billion budget and tasked with moving the massive reform law from paper to reality?
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