5 G Wireless Telecommunications Expansion: Public Health and Environmental Implications
Cindy L. Russell The popularity, widespread use and increasing dependency on wireless technologies has spawned a tele- communications industrial revolution with increasing public exposure to broader and higher frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum to transmit data through a variety of devices and infrastructure. On the horizon, a new generation of even shorter high frequency 5G […]
The Declining Standards of FDA Drug Approvals
Maryanne Demasi The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a legal obligation to protect the public and ensure that the benefits of medicines outweigh the harms before being marketed to people. But the agency’s increasing reliance on pharmaceutical industry money has seen the FDA’s evidentiary standards for drug approvals significantly decline. … Industry fees […]
