Health
FDA must crack down on retailers selling tobacco to teens: Report
A new government report finds that federal regulators need to do more to help in the battle to keep kids and teens off tobacco.
Sep 21, 2023
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Addiction
Australian state mulls cigarette sales ban
An Australian state was Wednesday considering a ban on cigarette sales to anyone born after the year 2000 in an initiative that would see a "tobacco-free generation".
Aug 22, 2012
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Raising tobacco purchase age to 21 would prevent thousands of premature deaths in Michigan
Restricting sales of tobacco products to people 21 and older could keep 11,000 Michiganders from starting to smoke, potentially avoiding premature deaths in two-thirds of that population, according to a University of Michigan ...
Mar 22, 2019
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Most Americans don't want tobacco on drug store shelves
(HealthDay)—Two-thirds of American adults think tobacco products don't belong on pharmacy shelves, including half of those who are smokers, a new survey shows.
Sep 1, 2016
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Medications
Bayer to sell testosterone drug for up to 500 mn euros
German chemicals giant Bayer said on Thursday it was selling its male testosterone replacement drug Nebido for up to half-a-billion euros in order to concentrate on medical innovation.
Jul 14, 2022
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Health
Powdered alcohol approved by US regulators
(HealthDay)—U.S. regulators have approved a controversial powdered alcohol product called Palcohol, which is meant to be mixed into drinks.
Mar 12, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Why Americans are buying more guns than ever
Americans have been on a record gun-buying spree in recent months.
Aug 28, 2020
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Medications
Pfizer to pay $491M to resolve drug marketing case (Update)
The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday that drugmaker Pfizer Inc. will pay almost $491 million to resolve an investigation into illegal marketing of the organ transplant drug Rapamune by a company Pfizer later acquired.
Jul 30, 2013
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Teen smoking has fallen across most of U.S.
(HealthDay)—A significant decline in cigarette smoking took place among U.S. kids aged 12 to 17 between 2002 and 2010 in 41 states, according to a new federal government report.
Nov 21, 2012
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Sales of Johnson's baby powder halted in U.S., Canada
(HealthDay)—Lawsuits claiming that talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder has caused cancer have led to a plunge in sales in the United States and Canada, so Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday it is ending sales of the product in ...
May 21, 2020
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