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US adult cigarette smoking rate hits new all-time low

Medical Xpress

cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released Thursday. Meanwhile, electronic cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults.

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France weighing ban on disposable e-cigarettes: minister

Medical Xpress

The French government may ban disposable electronic cigarettes popular in particular among teenagers by the end of this year, Health Minister Francois Braun said Wednesday.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. Prescribing Red Flags The government alleged that from at least 2017 to April 2021 Defendants knowingly filled controlled substance prescriptions “that raised obvious ’red flags’ of potential abuse or diversion.” Zarzamora Press Release. Complaint ¶ 55.

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FOIA Requires Transparency of Instructions to FDA Staff, Even When Those Instructions Are to Pause Communications with the Public

FDA Law Blog

As the DOJ FOIA Guide explains in its introduction : The United States Supreme Court has explained that [t]he basic purpose of [the] FOIA is to ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and to hold the governors accountable to the governed. 552(a)(4)(B).

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The ICH E6(R3) Guideline: A Major Update to Good Clinical Practice

FDA Law Blog

E6(R3) specifically acknowledges the rise of innovative trial designs such as adaptive and decentralized methods, while also encouraging the use of electronic informed consent and remote monitoring.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

CDC vaccine safety officer Robert Chen built on VAERS to create the Vaccine Safety Datalink, which looks for evidence of vaccine harms in electronic health records. But the network has published nothing on covid vaccines, nor are any trials related to the issue listed on government websites. centers study rare vaccine reactions.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

has long disparaged certain vaccines, calling them unsafe and saying that the government officials who regulate them are compromised and corrupt. The new studies are coming at a fraught political moment. The nation’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,