Public Health in the News (8/12/18 – 8/18/18)

By Grace Bellinger, NPHR Blog Editor

Global

• British researchers discover that babies introduced to solid food at three months of age were sleeping better at six months.

National

• The FDA has approved the first direct generic competitor to EpiPen.
• The CDC reported that drug overdoses killed more than 72,000 people in the United States last year, an increase of about 10% from 2016.
• An environmental research and advocacy group released a report that found traces of a herbicide in Cheerios, Quaker Oats, and other breakfast foods.