CDC endorses prophylactic antibiotics to reduce STIs in high-risk groups (www.statnews.com)
Palliative care for cancer patients is found to be as effective given virtually as in person (www.statnews.com)
Comfort can be delivered to patients with advanced cancer virtually just as well as in person, according to a new study presented on Sunday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago....
Many docs who tweeted product endorsements also took money from manufacturers, analysis shows (www.statnews.com)
Drug treatment that insists on abstinence? Federal agencies are just saying no (www.statnews.com)
What to watch for in the crucial FDA meeting on MDMA therapy for PTSD (www.statnews.com)
FDA approves Moderna’s RSV vaccine, its second licensed product (www.statnews.com)
Heat waves associated with increased risk of preterm birth in the U.S. (www.statnews.com)
Heat waves are becoming more frequent and more intense, posing more of a health risk around the world. High temperatures can be deadly, and are especially dangerous for those with cardiovascular and chronic disease — but they begin affecting human lives even before birth....
How doctors are pressuring sickle cell patients into unwanted sterilizations (www.statnews.com)
Michigan reports a human case of bird flu, the nation’s second linked to H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows (www.statnews.com)
High blood pressure in kids doubles their risk of cardiovascular disease, study finds, bringing a call for routine screening (www.statnews.com)
Children and adolescents diagnosed with high blood pressure have double the risk of major cardiovascular problems as adults, a new study that followed them into their 20s and 30s reports....
Texas dairy farm worker’s case may be first where bird flu virus spread from mammal to human, scientists say (www.statnews.com)
A new report on the first human bird flu case tied to the outbreak in cows in the United States suggests that the Texas man may be the first detected case of the H5N1 virus transmitting from a mammal to a person....
After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times (www.statnews.com)
Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread (www.statnews.com)
Health disparities and premature deaths run deep, even in best-performing states (www.statnews.com)
A new analysis of health inequities in the United States shows that every state has deep racial and ethnic disparities in the performance of their health care systems....
About half of cancer drugs given accelerated approval don't show improved survival or quality of life (www.statnews.com)
For decades, the Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval pathway has helped companies get drugs for serious unmet medical needs to patients — and the market — sooner. But about half of cancer drugs approved via this route fail to improve patient survival or quality of life in subsequent clinical trials after...
CDC to doctors: Look out for bird flu infections among dairy farm workers (www.statnews.com)
People in Republican-voting states more likely to report Covid-19 vaccine side effects, study says (www.statnews.com)
People in Republican-voting states were more likely to report adverse events after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination than people living in Democratic-leaning states, a new analysis finds, suggesting that how people view their post-vaccine side effects or decide whether to report them may be shaped by their political views....
Covid’s scientific silver lining: A chance to watch the human immune system respond in real time (www.statnews.com)
While an increasingly anxious world watched a new coronavirus spread across the globe in early 2020, veteran immunologist Rafi Ahmed quickly grasped that his field was about to experience something truly extraordinary. His former student Ali Ellebedy was gnawed by frustration as Covid shutdowns stalled his influenza research; it...
Switzerland had a drug overdose crisis. Then it made methadone easy to get (www.statnews.com)
The lobby of this addiction clinic is unremarkable, really, except for the network of metal chutes and tubes that hug the walls as they snake downward from a pharmacy on the upper floors. Every few minutes, a new prescription comes clattering down, delivering a bottle full of powerful and effective pills used to treat opioid...
The U.S. banned asbestos, but its health impact will still be felt for decades (www.statnews.com)
A new rule announced by the Environmental Protection Agency this week puts an end to the use of asbestos, a known carcinogen, in the United States. But researchers caution that we’ll likely still be dealing with the mineral’s public health harms for decades....
How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic (www.statnews.com)
Amid measles outbreaks, U.K. launches vaccination ad campaign to boost childhood immunizations (www.statnews.com)
Facing a growing outbreak of measles, the U.K. on Thursday unveiled an advertising campaign aimed at boosting vaccination rates in children, which have steadily fallen over the past decade and took an even greater dip during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic....
Cholera vaccine shortage reaches worst point yet, with experts fearing deadly outbreaks (www.statnews.com)
An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation they argue is as regrettable as it was avoidable....
Embryo loss is integral to IVF. Alabama’s ruling equating embryos with children jeopardizes its practice (www.statnews.com)
An embryo is one of the earliest stages of development of a multicellular organism. But according to the Supreme Court of Alabama, it is a person, too — an unborn child, entitled to the same legal protections as any minor....
