House passes bill after TB death of Michigan woman who received tainted bone graft material

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The U.S. House on Monday unanimously adopted legislation prompted by the death last year of a 57-year-old northern Michigan woman who died from tuberculosis linked to contaminated bone graft material she had received via elective surgery. The family of Shandra Eisenga looked on from the HouseContinue Reading

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced awards of nearly $335 million to strengthen financial incentives for private forest landowners to manage their forests sustainably and to permanently conserve private forests in partnership with states. The funding was made possible thanks to investments from theContinue Reading

Meta-analysis Probes Rare Potential Vision Risk of GLP-1s

TOPLINE: Patients treated with glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) appear to have a very low incidence of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) when appropriately prescribed for obesity or diabetes.  METHODOLOGY: A retrospective observational study recently suggested that semaglutide treatment may be associated with more than a fourfoldContinue Reading