Tag: liver-injury
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U.S. FDA panel narrowly backs Cempra’s antibiotic solithromycin
The effectiveness of Cempra Inc’s antibiotic to treat community-acquired pneumonia outweighs the risk of liver injury, an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration narrowly concluded on Friday. The panel voted 7-6 that the drug, solithromycin, should be approved to treat the kind of pneumonia that recently affected U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.…
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Dinner with TV may be a recipe for less healthy meals
By Madeline Kennedy (Reuters Health) – Families that eat dinner with the TV on tend to eat less healthy food and to enjoy the meals less than families who leave the TV off, according to a recent U.S. study. “Family meals are protective for many aspects of child health,” lead author Amanda Trofholz said by…