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U.S. life expectancy falls to lowest level in almost 20 years due to COVID-19 -CDC Reuters 12 hrs ago By Dania Nadeem (Reuters) - Life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020 to 77.3 years, the lowest level since 2003, primarily due to the deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a U.S. health agency said on Wednesday. It is the biggest one-year decline since World War Two, when life expectancy fell 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943, and is six months shorter than its February 2021 estimate, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. "Life expec...

Article content The regulator said the health benefits of stopping smoking outweigh the cancer risk from the nitrosamine impurity in varenicline. Canadian generic drugmaker Apotex will be temporarily allowed to distribute Apo-Varenicline tablets in the United States to help maintain adequate varenicline supply in the country for the near term, the FDA said. The nitrosamine impurity, called N-nitroso-varenicline, may be associated with a potential increased cancer risk in humans, but there is no immediate risk to patients taking this medication, the FDA said. Risk of exposure to the carcinogen...

First case of monkeypox detected in Texas resident 07/16/2021 22:25 (Reuters) - A rare case of human monkeypox was detected in Texas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday, making it the first case of the virus seen in the state. The viral illness was found in a U.S. resident, who recently traveled from Nigeria to the United States and is currently hospitalized in Dallas. "While rare, this case is not a reason for alarm and we do not expect any threat to the general public," Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said. (https://bit.ly/2Tf90H9)

By Syndicated Content Jul 16, 2021 | 4:41 PM (Reuters) – The U.S. drug regulator said on Friday it will temporarily allow manufacturers to distribute versions of Pfizer Inc’s anti-smoking drug Chantix with elevated levels of an impurity that may cause cancer, in order to maintain supplies. Drugmaker Pfizer in June halted distribution of Chantix, or varenicline, and recalled a number of lots after finding elevated levels of cancer-causing agents called nitrosamines in the pills. (https://reut.rs/3Bd8SJh) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will temporarily allow some m...

By Syndicated Content Jul 15, 2021 | 1:59 PM (Reuters) – The United States has administered 336,054,953 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 388,738,495 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. Those figures are up from the 335,487,779 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by July 14 out of 388,295,385 doses delivered. The agency said 185,135,757 people had received at least one dose while 160,408,538 people are fully vaccinated as of Thursday. The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from...