Called “Closer to Zero,” the FDA plan calls for continued scientific investigation, establishes acceptable levels of heavy metals, sets up a way to monitor manufacturers’ compliance, and sets “action levels.”
In California and the US, about half of syphilis cases are in men who have sex with men. More than a third of women in the West who have syphilis also use meth, which has surged in recent years.
Regulatory agencies in the US and around the world are scrambling to determine the risk of potentially lethal but rare blood clots linked to adenovirus vaccines.
Rankings for the most common cancers, as well as the cancer types responsible for the most deaths, are predicted to change over the next 20 years in the United States.
Uterus transplantation has proved to be successful, but at what cost? This study aimed to estimate the total societal cost of a live donor uterus transplant in a European setting.
The news about rare side effects from the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine may be alarming to your patients, even those who received one of the other vaccines. Here’s how to reassure them.
Experts say it’s important to put the risk in context for patients and explain that the vaccination pause means the monitoring system is working — and it’s transparent.
Frank Herd 