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Nasal spray could help drive down suicide rates among U.S. veterans
Posted: August 23, 2012 Personal Injury

“Here’s a window into a tragedy within the American military,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff wrote in an April column. “For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25 veterans are dying by their own hands.”

FDA grants three kidney disease devices to enter expedited approval process
Posted: April 11, 2012 Pharmaceutical

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded its accelerated approval process for medical devices to include end-stage renal-disease devices. Three out of 32 applicants were selected to be among the first to qualify for the program.

FDA focuses on safety and innovation in approval of medical devices
Posted: November 9, 2011 Pharmaceutical

Amid pressure from victims of faulty artificial hips and an independent medical policy group to stiffen the approval process for medical devices, and requests from medical device manufacturers to keep the status quo, the top device official for the Food

Oil spill cleanup technology lags dangerously behind
Posted: July 8, 2010 Environmental

BP and other giant oil corporations have invested billions of dollars to develop means of drilling deeper and farther out to sea, yet they have invested relatively no money in developing effective deep-sea oil cleanup and response methods. Every year,

CPSC launches social networking initiative
Posted: October 2, 2009 Product Liability

Recognizing how online social networking tools are changing the way we stay connected to the people and things that matter to us, the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission has launched CPSC 2.0, an effort the CPSC describes as “a comprehensive