FDA Warns Amazon Over Supplements Containing Erectile Dysfunction Drugs
The FDA hit Amazon with a warning letter on December 20 for distributing energy supplements for men that contain potentially harmful pharmaceutical ingredients. These products, according to the letter, “are labeled as energy enhancing supplements or food, but laboratory analyses confirmed that they contained undeclared and potentially harmful active pharmaceutical ingredients.” The FDA held Amazon […]
Should Older Prostate Cancer Patients Jump Off the Active Surveillance Train?
Come December, as I observe my “pros-mitzvah” — 13 years on active surveillance (AS) for very low-risk prostate cancer — I feel I’m at a tipping point. Should I stay the course and keep monitoring my lesion — a single Gleason 6 of less than 1 mm seen back in 2010 and never again in […]
Opinion | Upending the Notion of What It Looks Like to Be Suicidal
The death of Stephen “tWitch” Boss in December hit the entertainment world and many in the medical and Black communities like a thunderbolt. It is seemingly unfathomable how someone with so much love, light, and promise who exuded happiness could end his life at just 40 years old, in a hotel room just a 14-minute […]
Lumpers vs Splitters: Categorizing Prostate Cancer
In December 2010, I was diagnosed with a tiny bit — less than 1 mm — of Gleason 6 (now Grade Group 1) prostate cancer. In six biopsies with more than 80 cores over nearly 13 years, that speck of cancer is all that has been found. I have seen two urologists while on Active […]
December Retail Sales Slide 1.9% Amid Shortages, Omicron
December Retail Sales Slide 1.9% Amid Shortages And Omicron | HuffPost Impact Main Menu Part of HuffPost Business. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. NEW YORK (AP) — Americans, beset by product shortages, rising prices and the arrival of omicron, sharply cut their spending in December […]
Wildfire smoke may have contributed to thousands of extra COVID-19 cases and deaths in western U.S. in 2020
Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington between March and December 2020 may be attributable to increases in fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study is the first to quantify the degree […]