US FDA head gives up cancer duties after criticism WASHINGTON

US FDA head gives up cancer duties after criticism
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - National Cancer Institute Director Andrew von Eschenbach will give up his daily duties there to focus on his new job as acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner, he told FDA staff on Friday.

1.4 million children could be saved with vaccines
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An estimated 1.4 children under five years of age die unnecessarily each year from measles, whooping cough or tetanus, all of them preventable with vaccines, the U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF, reported on Thursday.