Shutdown Hinders CDC Efforts to Fight Salmonella Outbreak

Shutdown hinders CDC efforts to fight salmonella outbreak
For a week, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control had only a skeleton staff tracking and analyzing the outbreak and more than 30 other clusters of food-related illness. In the past two days it has recalled some workers. Still, some food safety … Read more on MedCity News

California Drug Overdoses Rise, But State Fares Better Than Many
"Prescription-drug abuse, misuse and overdose is a very real epidemic, and it warrants a strong public-health response," said Andrea Gielen, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Johns Hopkins. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed two … Read more on Huffington Post

CardioMEMS HF Implant Narrowly Passes FDA Advisory Hurdle
GAITHERSBURG, MD (updated) — A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee narrowly voted in favor of a novel device that measures pulmonary-artery (PA) pressures in patients with heart failure. … Overall, more members of the Circulatory … Read more on Medscape