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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it has decided to make no change to the clinical trial policy (CTP) national coverage determination (NCD) issued on July 9, 2007, at this time, and is not imposing additional conditions for coverage. The decision to make no change is based on a thorough review and consideration of comments from the public, and the enactment of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, Pub. L. No. [click link for full article]

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) called for increased and expanded use of nutrient dense ready-to-use food (RUF) to reduce the five million annual deaths worldwide related to malnutrition in children under five years of age. Current food aid, which focuses on fighting hunger-not on treating malnutrition-is not doing enough to address the needs of young children most at risk, MSF warned. [click link for full article]

Trick-or-treating can be especially spooky for those with food allergies — many of those bite-sized candy bars and other treats can not label ingredients or other allergy information. This may…