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MAY 3, 2024

They include two video visits with providers affiliated with Duke Health, the health system I have used for a couple of decades. In one case, I wanted to obtain advice for managing respiratory symptoms I had been experiencing and to check if they might mean I had contracted Covid-19. Both visits were for low-level issues.

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APRIL 5, 2024

The agency also urged state health departments to rapidly assess any suspected human cases, and recommended that dairy farms with confirmed or suspected outbreaks require workers to use personal protective equipment. The recommendations were outlined in a health alert network advisory , or HAN in CDC parlance.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The Dutch manufacturer did not admit any fault and said it reached the agreement to resolve any uncertainty over the cases. The payout also includes medical monitoring claims from patients who used the company’s devices and could be exposed to future risks. billion to settle hundreds of personal injury lawsuits in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court announced it will soon weigh in on a case that challenges how the Food and Drug Administration regulates mifepristone , a drug it approved almost 25 years ago that is used to terminate pregnancy. The case, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, is disguised as a dispute over safety.

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APRIL 17, 2024

should be able to eliminate viral hepatitis, but instead new cases are on the rise , largely due to the opioid epidemic and increasing viral hepatitis transmission through injection drug use. By all accounts, the U.S. Read the rest…

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

WASHINGTON — President Biden is using a Cold War-era law to stem drug shortages by boosting domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing. The White House will spend $35 million to boost domestic production of key starting materials for sterile injectables, which are the drugs that hospitals commonly use and are most prone to shortages.

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MAY 13, 2024

The stipulation is mandated in the Hatch-Waxman Act, a federal law used to sort out patent infringement cases that can delay the arrival of lower-cost generics in medicine cabinets. This is no mere administrative matter. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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APRIL 26, 2024

using its Accredo specialty pharmacy beginning in June , Reuters writes. Cigna said the move should save around $3,500 on average per year for some of the 100,000 Accredo patients using either Humira or biosimilar. Overall, antibiotic use did not improve clinical outcomes for patients with Covid-19. Enjoy, and see you soon.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Increased injection drug use has led to a spike in cases of the life-threatening heart condition endocarditis , with cases rapidly accelerating since the onset of Covid-19. The increased case count is one of the lesser-known side effects of the deadly addiction epidemic. health system is ill-equipped to provide.

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APRIL 10, 2024

These include oxytocin, which is used during childbirth; Rho(D) immune globulin, which helps some women during pregnancy; standard-of-care chemotherapy, pain and sedation medicines; and ADHD pills. Unresolved shortages have, in fact, been hovering above 300 for more than a year as numerous basic and life-saving medicines are in short supply.

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APRIL 7, 2024

SAN DIEGO — Cancer cases among younger people have been rising for years, a trend researchers have struggled to explain. They used nine blood-based markers to calculate their biological age, a measure that captures the overall state of a person’s cells and tissues. A team of scientists at Washington University in St.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it is investigating whether CAR-T therapy, which uses genetically modified white blood cells to attack tumors, can in rare cases cause lymphoma, a blood cancer.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Lenmeldy has to be given before symptoms appear or, in some cases, after the first signs of disease, so it won’t be helpful for many patients living with MLD today. who were treated under compassionate use, as their doctors feared they didn’t have time to wait for approval.

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MAY 2, 2024

In a boost for Gilead Sciences, the California Supreme Court agreed to review a contentious legal theory that thousands of HIV patients have used in a closely watched case to argue drugmakers can be held negligent for failing to develop a medicine.

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APRIL 10, 2024

A small company called Harrow argues that it can make the case for an injectable eye treatment that has been used to combat several serious conditions.

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PharmaTech

JANUARY 28, 2024

Using cGMP grade reagents earlier makes for a seamless transition while maintaining quality and viability. Knowing the right time to introduce cGMP raw materials when scaling up mAbs manufacturing avoids production process redevelopment, delays and increased costs.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take on whether Americans can access a commonly used abortion pill. It will be the court’s first major abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year, giving jurisdiction over abortion laws back to the states.

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In this case scenario, I discuss the use of a TCA with an SNRI. The post Can You Use a TCA With an SNRI? Case Review appeared first on Med Ed 101. A 66-year-old female has a past medical history of diabetes, neuropathy, depression, and hypertension.

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APRIL 4, 2024

government agency tasked with ensuring the safe use of radioactive materials issued a recent report that the agency’s advisers had key undisclosed conflicts of interest, raising fresh concerns about controversial decisions around the reporting of radioactive injection accidents. The oversight division of a U.S.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Supreme Court on Wednesday extended a stay on limits to a federally approved abortion drug, giving the panel two more days to consider a case that could determine whether the widely used medication can remain on the market.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

While the country’s current drug overdose crisis is largely driven by opioids, stimulant use has skyrocketed in recent years. An increasing share of drug deaths are now attributed to a combination of opioids and stimulants, or, in some cases, stimulants alone. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

The masks, according to a press release from the Department of Justice, were used to diagnose and treat sleep disorders. The case never went to court. Philips agreed to pay $2.4 Philips Respironics, a subsidiary of Philips, allegedly gave out masks from 2016 to 2021.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The data, presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology and published in The Lancet , could bolster the case for the device, which is available in Europe and the U.K. The primary goal of the small trial was to use magnetic resonance imaging to see if this happened.  Food and Drug Administration.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

November 29th 2022 9 am CT |10 am ET | 3 pm BST | 4 pm CET Statistical signal detection is a crucial tool for rapidly identifying potential risks associated with pharmaceutical products. New methods for signal detection offer the potential to identify adverse reactions from vaccines and drugs earlier.

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ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

APRIL 1, 2024

She denied any new soap or cosmetic use, prior rash, allergy, or medication use. Laboratory Data Non-contributory Case Question: What is the diagnosis? Case Discussion Take-Home Points Miliaria, or prickly heat, is caused by sweating and blocked eccrine sweat glands. The rash was mildly pruritic but not painful.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A 24-year-old G1P0010 female with a PMHx of ovarian cyst (unknown laterality) and emergency contraceptive use 3 months prior presented with sudden onset abdominal pain (upper > lower) that awoke her from sleep four hours prior to presentation with associated nausea and mild lower back pain. The pain is 10/10, sharp, stabbing, and diffuse.

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JUNE 23, 2023

And one of the biggest challenges facing the people trying to choreograph its final steps is how to phase out use of oral polio vaccines. The oral vaccines have brought the paralyzing viruses to the brink of  annihilation; so far this year there have only been six cases detected, five in Afghanistan and one in Pakistan.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Increasingly, though, oncologists are trying to use less radiation, long one of the main pillars of cancer therapy. In some cases, they are even keeping certain patients with low-risk tumors off radiation entirely. Engineered cancer-killing cells, immunotherapies, targeted drugs, and more are helping clinicians cure more patients.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

But the FDA also approves devices including artificial joints, infusion pumps, and scalpels using a process known as the 510(k) pathway, which simply lets manufacturers show that the new devices are “substantially equivalent” to products already on the market. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

That mismatch forces every rural doctor to tackle all sorts of cases and make the best use of their limited resources. More than 15% of Americans — about 46 million — live in rural areas, but only 10% of doctors practice in these communities, many of whom are primary care and family physicians.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Using terms like “clearinghouse” and “electronic data interchange” are quick ways to lose an audience. The cyberattack on Change Healthcare has fractured the country’s health care payment infrastructure. But it also exposed how complicated and vital these electronic pipes are.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

However, Marks described a “hypothetical case” in the context of my Sarepta questions that clearly suggested the failure of an Elevidys confirmatory study in October didn’t bother him all that much. To be clear, Marks declined to comment specifically about the ongoing FDA review of Elevidys.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A 64-year-old Caucasian male with a history of alcohol use disorder and tobacco use disorder presents with painless bilateral hand contractures that have been worsening for the past several months. Laboratory Data Non-contributory Case Question: What is the diagnosis and initial management? References Shih B, Bayat A.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

All were successful, with the drug, sometimes used in combination with other therapies, helping stave off progression of the disease. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JUNE 9, 2023

  The treatment, a one-time infusion known as exa-cel, uses CRISPR to fix the genetic faults at the root of sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.   Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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APRIL 4, 2024

Oruka Therapeutics CEO Lawrence Klein joins us to discuss how his company raised its first round of financing before competing with major players in the inflammation space.   Read the rest…

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JULY 16, 2023

Use CRISPR to fix that mutation, the idea goes, and you can treat the disease. In this case, Alzheimer’s. When the genome-editing tool CRISPR is thought of as a potential medicine, the targets that first come to mind are diseases like sickle cell or other conditions caused by particular mutations.

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