Regulators consider request from China (See also Loss of access to ketamine threatens progress in humane euthanasia, by Ruth Steinberger.) GENEVA, Switzerland––The World Health Organization Expert Committee on Drug Dependence is to recommend at the March 2016 meeting of the United Nations Single Commission on Narcotic Drugs that the drug ketamine not be internationally regulated. […]
New data shows decline of rabies in India
Oft-claimed figures high by magnitudes of order NEW DELHI, NAGPUR––Newly published data from the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence and the Nagpur Municipal Corporation has added statistical weight to the likelihood that the most widely cited estimates of human rabies deaths in India are magnitudes of order high. The accuracy of the estimates matter […]
Oscar Meyer leaving town after findings linking hot dogs to cancer
Oscar Meyer leaves Madison after 96 years MADISON, Wisconsin––Just a week after the World Health Organization and International Agency for Cancer Research linked hot dog consumption to colorectal, pancreatic, and prostate cancers, Oscar Meyer is leaving town. Oscar Meyer, for 132 years among the biggest names in hot dogs, known since 1936 for deploying […]