“The most important thing a primary care provider can do is to screen with whatever test is most accessible,” Rachel P. Brook, MD, said in an interview.
Reassuringly, in the initial month of administering 13.8 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to the U.S. population, no serious safety issues were found.
Of the 10% of the population whose records say they are allergic to penicillin, 90% can tolerate it now, says an expert. Mislabeling has consequences for outcomes and antibiotic resistance.
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia patients should be given supportive and palliative care alongside CAR T-cell therapy so they can discuss uncertainties and plan for the future, say UK nurse specialists.
The long and winding course to publication of the results of one randomized trial highlights much bigger problems with data ownership, company motivations, and public resources.
Frank Herd 