Smoking Stigma: How E-Cigarettes Perpetuate Stigma About Smoking in the Law

Electronic-Cigarettes, E-Cigarettes, Hookah Pens, Vaporizers, “Vapes” – whatever you choose to call it – are the devices that are taking the smoking industry by storm, and are estimated to have topped $10 billion in sales in 2017. Vapes are devices that heat liquid to a boiling temperature where the liquid becomes a vapor, and the vapor is then inhaled by the smoker. Vapes are excessively poplar in the younger generation, but they have also exploded (no pun intended) in the marijuana industry. Regulations thus far have been implemented among the fifty states, but the effects that these products have on the country in general are still yet to come to complete fruition.… Read More Smoking Stigma: How E-Cigarettes Perpetuate Stigma About Smoking in the Law

Grandma Could Afford Her Arthritis Medication…If She Lived In Europe

POSTED BY Sardiaa Leney Since the passage of the Hatch-Waxman provisions 30 years ago, a fairly orderly market in generic small molecule drugs has developed, reducing the cost of some of the commonest medicines to a fraction of their pre-competition price points.  Biologics medicines are another matter.   Biologics are drugs comprising molecules so complex that… Read More Grandma Could Afford Her Arthritis Medication…If She Lived In Europe

How Natural is All Natural?

POSTED BY Kayla Morency In the 1970’s, biologists began experimenting with genetics and biotechnology, which ultimately resulted in genetically engineered DNA.  This new process involved the crossbreeding of various animal, plant, viral, and bacterial genes, which would not naturally occur in the environment.  In fact, the first patented genetically modified organism (GMO) was used by… Read More How Natural is All Natural?

FDA Cordially Invites 23andMe to Bring Health Claims Up to Code

POSTED BY Lloyd Chebaclo 23andMe, the direct-to-consumer genetic testing service, is partly on hold after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent it a warning letter for marketing its Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service (PGS) “without marketing clearance or approval in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C… Read More FDA Cordially Invites 23andMe to Bring Health Claims Up to Code