Doctors are A THIRD more likely to prescribe opioids later in the day, study finds Physician fatigue and schedule may effect their decision-making Opioid over-prescribing is blamed in part for the current US opioid epidemic University of Minnesota researchers found that 4% of patients with early appointments get opioid prescriptions By the end of the… Read More »
More than half of IT security leaders (53 percent) don’t know how well cyber security tools are working, despite an average of $ 18.4 million in average annual spending on these technologies. The new report from the Ponemon Institute is based on a survey of 577 information technology and security practitioners in the United States.… Read More »
Secondary-school pupils in England appear to be rejecting cigarettes in greater numbers than ever before. The most recent survey in a series that began in the 1980s indicates just 16% of the pupils have ever smoked tobacco, down from 19% in 2016 and 49% in 1996. However, a quarter of the 13,000 pupils surveyed, from… Read More »
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced last year that the Food and Drug Administration was considering adding sesame to its list of eight major food allergens — milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and — that must be disclosed on food packaging. Gottlieb filed a “request for information,” inviting “data and other information on the prevalence and severity… Read More »