Lack of Clinical Benefit of Andexanet Flummoxes FDA Panel
FDA advisors pushed for nuance in discussing whether andexanet alfa (Andexxa) should gain full approval, citing uncertainties about which dose ...
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Chronic Pain Affects One in Four Americans, CDC Reports
Chronic pain affected nearly one in four U.S. adults, new CDC survey data showed. In 2023, 24.3% of adults had ...
Malaria Vaccine Delivered by Mosquito Bite Shows Safety, Efficacy
Immunization with a second-generation genetically attenuated parasite was safe and provided strong protection from malaria infection in young adults, a ...
What’s the Status of the Proposed Ban on Menthol Cigarettes?
Biden administration officials have many regulations they'd like to finalize before the end of the president's term, but it's unclear ...
Common chemical in drinking water hasn’t been tested for safety
Millions of US residents may be drinking water containing the potentially harmful compoundYiu Yu Hoi/Getty Images A common disinfectant in ...
Clinicians React to Trump’s Appointees; Beyonce in the OR? Diagnosing Shiny Legs
The following contains links to social media websites including X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. "Probably the biggest health threat ...
‘Suicide Capsule’ Creator Rejects Allegation That First User May Have Been Strangled
GENEVA -- The right-to-die activist behind a new "suicide capsule" said he rejects "absurd" allegations that the U.S. woman who ...
Flooding May Be the Climate Health Hazard of Our Time, Report Suggests
Floods are emerging as a major health hazard with inequitable global effects -- both short and long term -- as ...
Use of Home-Based OCT for Neovascular AMD Could Lead to More Timely Treatment
A retrospective review of home-based optical coherence tomography (OCT) monitoring for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) found that treatment should ...
New Agent for Biliary Tract Cancer Approved
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved zanidatamab (Ziihera, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) as monotherapy for previously treated, unresectable ...
Trump Is Back: What This Could Mean for Health Policy
Gostin, Radhakrishnan, and Friedman are experts in health law and policy. The first Trump administration was marked by mismanagement of ...
U.S. Towns Plunge Into Debates About Fluoride in Water
For about 50 years, adding cavity-preventing fluoride to drinking water was a popular public health measure in Yorktown, a leafy ...
Contraceptives recalled in South Africa due to packaging mix-up
Regulators in South Africa have recalled a batch of the popular Yaz Plus contraceptive pill, after a packaging mix-up which ...
Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis Linked to Pesticide Exposure
A study in Gastroenterology linked inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) risk with past exposure to environmental pollutants, mostly pesticides. In this ...
Top FDA Official Sees More Vaccine Scrutiny in Trump’s Presidency
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is likely to come under tighter scrutiny over vaccine development and safety ...
FDA Approves Zanidatamab for Biliary Tract Cancer
The FDA on Wednesday granted accelerated approval to zanidatamab (Ziihera), a bispecific antibody, for pretreated HER2-positive biliary tract cancer. Approval ...
Diet’s Role in Parkinson’s Disease
Interest is growing in the role of nutrition as means of slowing, or even preventing, neurodegeneration in patients with Parkinson’s ...
Briton Simone White dies after suspected mass poisoning in Laos
Squire Patton BoggsSimone White was holidaying in south-east AsiaA British lawyer has died after a suspected methanol poisoning thought to ...
World’s thinnest spaghetti won’t please gourmands but may heal wounds
The pasta nanofibresBeatrice Britton/Adam Clancy Scientists have produced the world’s thinnest spaghetti strands, 200 times slimmer than a human hair. ...
Matt Hancock says NHS was ‘hours’ from PPE running out in Covid
The NHS in England came within “six or seven hours” of running out of gowns and other protective equipment during ...
