In January 2003, The Lancet – one of the world’s oldest and most respected medical journals – published an article championing the combination of two drugs (ACE inhibitors and ARBs) in treating certain types of kidney disease. More than 100,000 patients were prescribed these two drugs in combination. But then an investigation concluded that the […]
This week an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously to recommend the approval of the first-ever rapid, over-the-counter, completely in-home HIV test. Though the FDA has approved other HIV test kits designed for at-home use in the past, those tests require a blood sample that must be sent in to a laboratory […]
Facebook has experimented with a lot of new and questionable plans over the years, from their controversial default privacy settings to their timeline layout, which some users love, and others hate. But it seems no plan is as unusual as their new one, launched yesterday. In short, the plan encourages everyone on Facebook to advertise their […]