“Is MLB Going to Be Able to Pull This Back?” Health Experts Break Down Baseball’s Plan
The league wants to come back in July. Medical professionals say that’s possible—but have plenty of concerns about how it could happen.
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Most medical devices do not hit the market through rigorous safety testing but by being deemed similar enough to something already approved—the “predicate” device through a mechanism known as the FDA’s 510(k) pathway. But similar is not a synonym for safe. While the assumption may be that substantial equivalence is a reasonable stand-in for a safety review, a share of devices cleared with this method still get recalled, and the FDA spends valuable time reviewing devices the same way, regardless of how risky it is on paper.
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The league wants to come back in July. Medical professionals say that’s possible—but have plenty of concerns about how it could happen.
A team of UCD academics wants the State to incentivise companies to invest in anti-coronavirus safety measures, after a study suggested that businesses that spend to protect workers and customers are 20 per cent more likely to go bust.
Alabama, North Dakota, and South Carolina are the first states to publicly comment about using Apple and Google’s COVID-19 contact tracing technology, now available to public health agencies on both iOS and Android.
Is the reporting of media outlets biased in favor of firms that advertise with them? A new study looked at the relationship between advertising by car manufacturers in U.S. newspapers and news coverage of car safety recalls in the early 2000s. The study found that newspapers provided less coverage of recalls issued by manufacturers that advertised more regularly in their publications than of recalls issued by other manufacturers that did not advertise, and this occurred more frequently when the recalls involved more severe defects.
North Carolina will move to Phase 2 of its reopening from the coronavirus shutdown on Friday — at a time when a few of the state’s 100 counties are experiencing spikes in their case counts. Cases of the novel coronavirus in counties including Wayne, Duplin, Forsyth and Guilford have risen sharply over the last two weeks, highlighting some of the issues with trying to manage reopening across a large and varied state.

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