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FDA agrees that mifepristone is safe enough to dispense by mail
In light of COVID-19, the FDA in April said women didn’t have to pick up the pills in person. Now the agency is making the rule permanent. After a...
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HIV: FDA stops all islatravir oral and implant trials
The hold followed observations that total lymphocyte and T-cell counts had dropped in some participants receiving islatravir in clinical studies...
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Infant milk allergy guidelines promote overdiagnosis, study says
Nearly three-fourths (74%) of participants reported at least two mild-to-moderate symptoms; 9% reported at least two severe symptoms in at least 1...
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Risk for severe COVID-19 and death plummets with Pfizer booster
These findings came from two studies completed before the advent of the Omicron variant.
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Letter counters study that focuses on low-risk home births
A researcher says readers get a biased view when high-risk conditions are excluded from the main analysis. The study author stands by her approach...
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Dust mite immunotherapy may help some with eczema
In a study, 74.2% and 58% of patients in HDM SLIT and placebo groups, respectively, showed at least a15-point decrease in SCORAD, but those...
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Ten changes that could keep clinicians in the workforce in a pandemic
Doctors make checklist of low-cost action items to start addressing a wave of providers leaving medicine.
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30% of docs say they don’t want own kids 5-11 to get COVID vaccine
All of the unvaccinated physicians who responded to the poll said they had no confidence in the vaccine for kids.
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Short-acting opioids needed for withdrawal in U.S. hospitals, say experts
The short-acting drugs can complement methadone and buprenorphine to help patients get faster relief and help patients stay in the hospital to...
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Adding questions in primary care may help predict suicide risk
The researchers cited the urgency highlighted by statistics that show that, from 1999 to 2017, the U.S. suicide rate increased by more than 33%....
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Enriched infant formula offers no academic benefit later: Study
Researchers analyzed academic results of adolescents who were given either fortified formula or standard formula as infants and found no benefit...
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Early trials underway to test mushrooms as COVID treatment
“They are not even as psychoactive as a cup of tea.”
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Universal depression screening in schools doubles odds for teen treatment
A large trial in Pennsylvania finds a school-based universal intervention compared with current protocols significantly improved identification of...
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COVID-19 has brought more complex, longer office visits
Patients’ increased mental health needs and worsened chronic conditions have practices playing catch-up and expanding teams to ease demand.
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In and out surgeries become the norm during pandemic
The number of same-day discharges has grown for various surgeries but it’s not always the right or the preferred choice, experts say.