While the official COVID-19 public health emergency has ended, the virus hasn’t disappeared. Some of the special programs put in place during the pandemic have ended, however, and the University of Michigan offers a guide to help Americans understand what’s changed and what hasn’t. Get vaccinated What hasn’t changed is that the virus continues to cause serious illness and death. […]

Dementia drug linked to lethal bleeds will ‘get the green light’ in the US, swaying UK health chiefs to do the same, says expert Dementia expert and ex-FDA adviser warned drug lecanemab ‘will cost lives’ Leading scientists have hinted that American regulators are set to give a first-of-its-kind dementia jab the go-ahead – despite claims that it can trigger deadly […]

How revolutionary rethink in the way prostate cancer is diagnosed may reassure men it is safe to postpone having treatment – as experts call for early stage disease to be reclassified as pre-cancer Experts have said earliest stage prostate cancer to be called ‘pre-cancer’ 50,000 men told they have disease a year in the UK, but this could half it […]

(Reuters) – U.S. adolescents made fewer weekly emergency department (ED) visits for mental health conditions in Fall 2022 compared to a year earlier, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Thursday. By late 2022, pandemic restrictions had been loosened or lifted and adolescents had generally returned to schools, with better social engagement and reduced isolation […]

A medication to treat agitation in Alzheimer’s patients now has approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA gave supplemental approval to Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., and Lundbeck Inc. for Rexulti (brexpiprazole) oral tablets on Thursday. Rexulti is the first FDA-approved treatment for these symptoms. “Agitation is one of the most common and challenging aspects of care among […]

Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, recently warned that “being socially disconnected” has a similar effect on mortality as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. This statement was widely reported in the media, including in the Washington Post, the Times and the Daily Mail. But where does this “15 cigarettes a day” figure come from? Dr. Murthy is referring […]

Phenotypic sex differences are common in many aspects of health and disease. Despite the success of genome-wide association studies in improving the understanding of how genetic variation contributes to the manifestation of complex traits or diseases, there has been little use of this data to investigate sex differences in the underlying mechanisms. In response, investigators led by Barbara Stranger, Ph.D., […]

Mother’s Day is just days away, and we are so grateful for all the mothers and mother figures out there! There are so many ways to say “thank you” and celebrate all that our moms do, but the most common, go-to gift is a gorgeous bouquet of flowers.   If your mom, or anyone you may be gifting a bouquet […]

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In February 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned people against using EzriCare eye drops because bottles of the product had been linked to drug-resistant bacterial infections causing vision loss and even death. But tainted bottles had been causing problems long before then. This week in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, an interdisciplinary group of researchers and […]