Back in April, Samsung was mentioned to introduce a blood pressure monitoring feature. It was soon cleared in South Korea for the Galaxy Watch Active2. The Samsung Health Monitor app was then updated with blood pressure monitoring. Samsung Health now has ECG and blood oxygen monitoring features but it is only now that the Electrocardiogram … Read more
BREAKING: FDA will make it HARDER to get a coronavirus vaccine approved in a move that could block Trump’s plan to have a shot before Election Day The FDA is expected to announce new, tougher requirements for a COVID-19 vaccine as early as this week, anonymous sources told the Washington Post Tougher guidelines will make … Read more
Bill Gates no longer trusts US regulators – and questions whether the Food and Drug Administration’s eventual approval of a coronavirus vaccine will mean the shot is safe. ‘The FDA lost a lot of credibility,’ the billionaire philanthropist told Bloomberg Television, referring to the agency’s series of prematurely positive outlook on various COVID-19 treatments, and … Read more
Fitbit is about to launch its previously announced new smartwatch called Sense and just in time, they have good news for those planning to get the wearable. They have received approval from the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Union’s Conformite Européenne (CE) for the electrocardiogram (ECG) app on the device that … Read more
Health experts are divided over the recent approval of convalescent blood plasma as a treatment for coronavirus patients in the US. On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced the experimental therapy had been issued emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The commander-in-chief lauded the news as a ”very big day’ and … Read more
President Donald Trump has lashed out at the Food and Drug Administration, accusing the agency of attempting to delay approval for coronavirus vaccines and treatments until after the presidential election. ‘The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the … Read more
US regulators have put a hold on the emergency approval process for the use of blood plasma taken from coronavirus survivors to treat people still battling the infection, an official told the New York Times. Plasma is rich in immune cells developed by the body as it combats coronavirus and some studies have suggested that … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning that a coronavirus test kit may return ‘inaccurate results.’ Health officials said on Monday there are two issues with the TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit produced by laboratory equipment company Thermo Fisher Scientific. Firstly, the test, which detects the virus in respiratory samples, has had numerous complaints of false positive … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning Americans to stop using certain hand sanitizers because they may be toxic. Regulators expanded their list of potentially dangerous hand sanitizers to 59, manufactured by 13 companies. Last month, the FDA cautioned that nine products manufactured by Mexico-based Eskbiochem SA de CV and contain varying amounts of methanol. … Read more
FDA warns Americans not to use nine ‘toxic’ hand sanitizers made by Mexican company because they contain up to 80% methanol that can cause life-threatening blood poisoning The FDA wrote in a warning letter not to use nine hand sanitizers made by Mexico-based company Eskbiochem SA de CV Health officials say the products contain methanol, … Read more