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Q&A: Why drafting new rules on ultra-processed foods is so hard

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Whole grain cereal and breads also qualify for the label, as do yogurts and some other dairy desserts. Processed meats, as their name would suggest, also belong in this category. But ultra-processed foods are not all the same.

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Q&A: Why drafting new rules on ultra-processed foods is so hard

STAT

Whole grain cereal and breads also qualify for the label, as do yogurts and some other dairy desserts. Processed meats, as their name would suggest, also belong in this category. But ultra-processed foods are not all the same.

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FDA AdCom votes in favour of Lundbeck’s/Otsuka’s Rexulti in AAD

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The current unmet need, the benefit of treatment with Rexulti, and a reasonable safety profile persuaded Dr. Merit Cudkowicz, Julieanne Dorn professor of neurology at Harvard University’s Medical School, to give a positive vote. Rexulti is an atypical antipsychotic.

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Almirall/Lilly lebrikizumab offers potential long-term management of atopic dermatitis

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He has been a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, the University of California, San Francisco, and University Spital Zürich, Switzerland, where his research focused on atopic dermatitis and the complexity of the skin barrier.