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Medscape recently hosted a Facebook Live Q&A for healthcare professionals to cover a number of important topics related to...
Feb 27, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun to test fresh cilantro, parsley and basil, as well as processed avocado and...
Feb 27, 2018 | Amy Chang
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local...
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is now recommending that anyone over the age of 12 months should be vaccinated for...
ASTM is taking the lead to develop standards related to cannabis and cannabis-infused products. Hear from ASTM Committee D37 on...
PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) for HIV prevention is highly effective and safe. PrEP works for women. The Centers for Disease Control...
Feb 26, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) redesigned its...
Feb 26, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
Congress passed a budget deal on February 9th which raised the spending caps and potentially increases the Centers for Disease Control...
Feb 22, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Project Inform and Med-IQ launched new online educational resources for medical and other front line support staff around PrEP...
Feb 20, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
Medscape recently hosted a Facebook Live Q&A for healthcare professionals to cover a number of important topics related to antibiotic prescribing, including how smart antibiotic use means giving patients the best care. The Q&A had more than 15,000 views, and featured a panel of the following experts: Lauri Hicks, DO – Infectious Diseases Physician; Director, CDC […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun to test fresh cilantro, parsley and basil, as well as processed avocado and guacamole, for certain microbial contaminants. The sampling will help the FDA assess the rates of bacterial contamination in these items to help identify possible common factors among the positive samples. These items were […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local health officials, are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to kratom products. Kratom is a plant that grows naturally in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. It comes in a variety […]
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is now recommending that anyone over the age of 12 months should be vaccinated for hepatitis A after the fact if they have been exposed to the virus. The new recommendations are not considered final until they are published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Morbidity and […]
ASTM is taking the lead to develop standards related to cannabis and cannabis-infused products. Hear from ASTM Committee D37 on Cannabis on what ASTM is doing to develop cannabis standards, what areas they are developing cannabis standards in, timeline expected, and how you can get involved. You will also hear from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) […]
PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) for HIV prevention is highly effective and safe. PrEP works for women. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates 468,000 U.S. women could benefit from PrEP. However, fewer Black women have been prescribed PrEP or know about PrEP than white women. Forty percent of women access reproductive health care only, making family […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) redesigned its Education Resource Library, which now includes nearly 300 publications and videos covering food safety, nutrition, cosmetic safety, dietary supplements, and industry information, including food defense. The Education Resource Library catalog makes CFSAN’s public health...
Congress passed a budget deal on February 9th which raised the spending caps and potentially increases the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) funding level. Now is the time to ensure that STD programs see that funding. STDs are at their highest levels ever and federal funding for STD prevention is at a 20-year low! […]
Project Inform and Med-IQ launched new online educational resources for medical and other front line support staff around PrEP implementation: a CME accredited one-hour webinar and accompanying slide deck. Med-IQ offers a new one-hour, CME accredited medical provider webinar, “Practical Considerations for Incorporating PrEP into HIV Prevention Efforts in the Primary Care Setting,” focusing on...
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