US FDA Declines to Approve Merck’s Chronic Cough Drug
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declined to approve Merck's drug for chronic cough, the company said on ...
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US FDA Approves Sweden-based Calliditas’ Kidney Disease Drug
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval to Swedish drugmaker Calliditas Therapeutics' drug to treat rare ...
Quaker Oats Recalls Granola Bars, Cereal Products Over Salmonella Risk
Share on PinterestConcerns over salmonella risk have prompted Quaker Oats officials to issue a product recall. Tim Boyle/Newsmakers/Getty ImagesQuaker Oats ...
Vegans who avoid ultra-processed food risk being protein deficient
Vegan burgers, sausages and mince are often made from textured soya protein, a highly processed ingredientdropStock/Shutterstock Health-conscious vegans may face ...
French Drugmaker Servier Ordered to Pay $471 Million for Mediator Scandal
PARIS (Reuters) - Drugmaker Servier must pay more than 430 million euros ($471 million) in connection with weight-loss pill Mediator, ...
Watch Out for Eye Injuries From Champagne Corks, Experts Warn
Keep an eye on those champagne corks this holiday season -- but not too close an eye, researchers warned. Eye ...
People Drop the Ball When It Comes to Safe Sex on New Year’s Eve
A new study in the annual BMJ Christmas issue suggests high levels of unprotected sex during New Year's Eve celebrations ...
Despite X-Waiver Elimination, Buprenorphine Rx Decline
TOPLINE:After the elimination of the mandatory training required to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, prescriptions for the drug declined ...
The development of embryos may be less shaped by genes than we thought
A scanning electron micrograph of mammalian embryonic stem cellsYORGOS NIKAS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The chemical reactions that cells use to power ...
Enrollment for 2024 Obamacare Plans 33% Higher Than Last Year
(Reuters) - More than 15.3 million Americans have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for ...
CDC Tracks Down Rare, Deadly Bacteria in Mississippi Gulf Region
Three patients diagnosed with melioidosis in a Mississippi Gulf Coast county probably picked up the disease from the local environment, ...
Antibiotic After Sex No Help in Preventing STIs in Women
Doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) up to 72 hours after unprotected sex did not prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in cisgender ...
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Roy-Bornstein is a writer and a retired pediatrician. Last week, Massachusetts hospitals, local health plans, and healthcare systems all committed ...
First Test to Identify Opioid Addiction Risk Approved by FDA
The FDA approved the first test that uses DNA to identify whether adults have an elevated risk of developing opioid ...
Passing of Dr Jean-Philippe Collet
Jean-Philippe Collet, MD, head of medical cardiology at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, passed away suddenly on Friday, December 15, at ...
Responses to Mosunetuzumab in Follicular Lymphoma Remain Durable at 3 Years
Mosunetuzumab (Lunsumio) is a first-in-class bispecific antibody that last year received accelerated approval for relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma. At ...
Planning to Stop That Benzodiazepine? Think Twice
Stopping long-term benzodiazepine treatment was tied to a higher risk of death, according to a comparative effectiveness study using claims ...
Positive Results for Odronextamab in Relapsed/Refractory DLBCL
In a pivotal phase II study, the investigational bispecific antibody odronextamab demonstrated clinically meaningful efficacy in patients with relapsed or ...
No Impact of Race on Cardiovascular Risk Calculations
TOPLINE:Removing race and incorporating social determinants of health (SDOH) into the pooled cohort risk equations (PCEs) for predicting atherosclerotic cardiovascular ...
JN.1 Covid variant: WHO charts its rapid global spread
Covid and other infections could rise in many parts of the world this winter, the experts warn. Source link : ...
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