TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) — New ways to deliver drugs that prevent infection with HIV are out there, but many people still prefer the standard daily PrEP pill, a new study shows. “The oral pill is very efficacious when people take it every day, and it really hasContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is poised to recommend use of a powerful antibiotic to prevent sexually transmitted infections. On Monday, the CDC issued draft recommendations, recommending doctors consider prescribing doxycycline to help prevent the spread of disease. Officials toldContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) — This year’s Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to two scientists who laid the groundwork years ago for the mRNA research that made COVID-19 vaccines possible. Dr. Katalin Karikó, the 13th woman to ever receive the honor, and Dr. DrewContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Medications that cut cravings have been shown to help with opioid use disorder, yet nearly a third of Medicaid recipients dealing with opioid addiction aren’t getting them, a new report shows. There were significant disparities in who gets these medications by age, raceContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Despite reports of trouble last week where some people may have been denied insurance coverage while seeking COVID shots at pharmacies, the Biden administration said Thursday those issues have been ironed out. That issue is “largely, if not completely,” resolved after U.S. HealthContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Critics of a law that decriminalized drug possession in Oregon have blamed the policy for rising overdose deaths in the state, but a new study finds no evidence of that. Researchers discovered that while drug overdose deaths have risen recently in Oregon, itContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — People who abuse marijuana may be setting themselves up for heart problems down the road, Canadian researchers report. The new study found that people with so-called cannabis use disorder may have a 60% higher risk for a heart attack, stroke or other majorContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) – An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday voted resoundingly against recommending a stem cell-based experimental treatment for ALS. Although the FDA isn’t bound by the votes of its advisory panels, agency scientists have already penned a scathing reviewContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — New research shows that an antibiotic effective for bacterial pneumonia also appears to fight treatment-resistant staph infections. The drug is ceftobiprole. It appeared successful in fighting methicillin-resistant staph infections, sometimes called MRSA. It showed similar benefit when tested against the antibiotic daptomycin toContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Ozempic, a type 2 diabetes drug that has increasingly been used to help with weight loss, will now be labeled as having the potential to block intestines. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently made the label update for the drug made byContinue Reading