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HUNTINGTON — A shared roadway is the way of the future to reduce traffic fatalities among pedestrians, bicyclists and people in a vehicle, experts said during a symposium at Marshall

HUNTINGTON — Marshall University’s Society of Yeager Scholars’ spring symposium Thursday will feature a discussion on campus infrastructure and safety.

TAM is fast approaching, which means one thing (at least this year). I need to get my Plexiglass blinky posterior in gear in order to have my talks together in time. I spent part of yesterday doing that, but, unfortunately, I have to work today in order to help to make up for the clinic I'll be missing next week; so you'll forgive me if this post might look familiar to a subset of you who know where you might have seen some of this discussion before elsewhere. Those of you who haven't, you're in for some good blogging, if I do say so myself.

Dive Brief: The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday restricted the use of Intercept Pharmaceuticals' liver disease drug Ocaliva after an investigation linked it to severe injuries including liver failure in certain patients. In most cases, the benefits of Ocaliva outweigh the risks for patients with primary biliary cholangitis, the FDA said. But the agency announced Wednesday that doctors should not prescribe the medicine for patients with advanced cirrhosis, or permanent scarring. The new contraindication follows a safety warning added in 2018 to caution physicians about overdosing pat...