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The report pointed to the low number of disciplinary actions taken by the state board...

Introductory article and account of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and its activity in Detroit in the 1960s and 70s by Martin Glaberman.

by Ralph Nader / July 16th, 2021 Kicking life-saving solutions endlessly down the road is the mark of the brutish power of the corporations over the innocents. Fifty years ago, medical research warned about the overuse of antibiotics creating mutations of resistant bacterium, making these drugs less effective. Dr. Sidney Wolfe warned about this criminal negligence again and again, along with other colleagues. But the drug companies kept over-promoting to get physicians to over-prescribe. Today,...

THIS week, people who were given contaminated blood while schoolchildren in the 1970s and ’80s have been giving evidence at a public inquiry. They were sufferers of haemophilia and were pupils at Treolar’s College, which had an NHS treatment centre to provide them with specialist care. As part of that care, many were infected with viral hepatitis or HIV, and died.   In a response to injury in somebody without haemophilia, an intricate set of protein reactions are set off within the blood....

Pfizer Prepares to File for Full FDA Approval of its Covid Vaccine Posted on 2647 Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) is set to file for full U.S. FDA approval of its Covid1-9 vaccine by the end of the month. If the FDA were to authorize the request, the company would be eligible to market directly to consumers. Shares rose 1.3% during premarket trading. The three vaccines currently on the market only have an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), which ...

How full FDA approval would impact COVID-19 vaccine mandates, competition In depth: The impact of full FDA approval By: KGTV Staff and last updated 2021-04-12 11:37:30-04 Pfizer could apply for full FDA approval of its COVID-19 vaccine as early as this month, and Moderna could follow soon after. If regulators sign off, that status change would have significant impacts on vaccine mandates in workplaces and other experimental vaccine candidates still in development. Currently, the...

Pfizer could apply for full FDA approval of its COVID-19 vaccine as early as this month, and Moderna could follow soon after. If regulators sign off, that status change would have significant impacts on vaccine mandates in workplaces and other experimental vaccine candidates still in development.

In-Depth: How full FDA approval would impact vaccine mandates, competition In depth: The impact of full FDA approval and last updated 2021-04-09 22:36:47-04 SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- Pfizer could apply for full FDA approval of its COVID-19 vaccine as early as this month, and Moderna could follow soon after. If regulators sign off, that status change would have significant impacts on vaccine mandates in workplaces and other experimental vaccine candidates still in development. Currently, the three vac...

FDAs Janet Woodcock failed to stop the opioid epidemic Drug manufacturers such as Purdue might have ignited the deadly opioid crisis. However, the FDA was instrumental in allowing the epidemic to play out. Gerald Posner Opinion contributor When the Biden administration tapped Janet Woodcock as the acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, it seemed a good pick. Woodcock had spent 23 years as chief of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, a unit the FDA describes as its “...

President-elect Joseph Biden has announced that he wants to pass another round of stimulus benefits that will put more money in Americans' pockets.