The three biggest US drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson are on the verge of a $26 billion settlement covering thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids nationwide.
The biological mechanisms of the delta variant now coursing through the US makes it ‘the fastest and fittest’ of them all so far. As with other variants before it, the best recourse is vaccination.
That’s a massive increase from a week ago, when Delta was seen as responsible for just more than half of new cases, CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky told a Senate committee.
Extremely premature infants exposed to opioids and benzodiazepines for prolonged periods are more likely to have untoward outcomes than infants without such exposure, according to a secondary analysis of data from a large clinical trial.
The changes emphasize that ‘statins are safe to prescribe in patients who can become pregnant’ and reassure women that harm is unlikely from unintended statin exposure in early pregnancy.
CMS intends to raise the stakes to compel compliance with a mandate for disclosure of hospital prices, with a proposed annual penalty of as much as $2 million for larger organizations.
Dr David Schenkein had aspired to, and achieved, a career in academic medicine and envisaged staying “until they take me out in a box.” So why did this physician move to industry?
Black women undergoing hysterectomy may be more likely to be treated by low-volume surgeons and to experience perioperative complications, a study shows.
In a pilot study, treatment with the antifungal itraconazole was associated with a significant reduction in vulvovaginal pain in women with negative fungus cultures and no other identifiable disease.
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