Month: January 2021

“Check on your friends who bit into a ham and cheddar hot pocket thinking it was pepperoni pizza” the official Hot Pockets account joked over Twitter in mid-January. This little joke became oddly prescient in the wake of a massive recall of pepperoni Hot Pockets. In fact, a more appropriate warning would have been to
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Dr Jerome Adams In one of his first moves as president, Joe Biden asked US Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, to resign. Adams was due to complete his term as surgeon general in September, four years after he was sworn in. Outgoing President Donald Trump nominated Adams, who was Indiana’s health commissioner, to oversee
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Greetings card marketplace thortful commissioned new initiative to encourage freelance and independent creatives to create their own Valentine’s Day card designs, to show their love for the NHS The initiative, which received an overwhelming response, saw designers respond to a One Minute Briefs challenge on Twitter, calling for creative ideas to reflect the love we
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With both Covid-10 vaccines now in distribution, more shots are reaching more arms. But, more shots yield more data, more reactions, and hence, more problems. Are the vaccines still safe? Despite news that one lot of the Moderna vaccine given in one California clinic had caused severe reactions in people numbering in the single digits,
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The U.S. passed 400,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, nearly a year after the country’s first case was confirmed in Seattle on Jan. 21, 2020. The U.S. is expected to hit 500,000 COVID-19 deaths by
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In an exciting, state-of-the-art study currently available on the medRxiv* preprint server, US researchers created a multi-coronavirus protein microarray containing full-length proteins, peptide libraries, and overlapping protein fragments from the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), as well as four other human coronaviruses. They demonstrated that this technology could be used for mapping antibody
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Treatment for Hypogonadism — Male Marius Pharmaceuticals Submits New Drug Application to U.S. FDA for Kyzatrex Next-generation Oral Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Male Patients with Hypogonadism Raleigh, N.C., Jan. 5, 2021 — Marius Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company focusing on treating conditions that are primarily associated with testosterone deficiency, today announced that it has submitted
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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE) January 14, 2021 — Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Xalkori® (crizotinib) for the treatment of pediatric patients 1 year of age and older and young adults with relapsed or refractory, systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL)
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental disorder that starts early in childhood and lasts throughout a person’s life. Most commonly, it affects how a person interacts with others, acts, communicates, and learns. Now, a study by researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Arizona State University, and the Mayo Clinic found that mothers
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I am an orthopedic surgeon, and I only take cash. When I tell people this, it usually conjures up images of some money-grubbing doctor eager to make a dollar any way they can. Personally, I am not incredibly incentivized by money in and of itself. I try to live a reasonable lifestyle and keep my
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Educators can have a profound impact on our lives. One Welsh teacher’s impact extended beyond the classroom. That’s why her fellow educators are donating to a breast cancer awareness fundraiser started in her memory. When Dawn Wilson was diagnosed with breast cancer, she took her passion for teaching in another direction: spreading awareness about the
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The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has issued a formal apology for its past support of structural racism in psychiatry. The apology, issued January 18, coincided with the federal holiday honoring the life and work of civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King Jr. “We apologize for our role in perpetrating structural racism in this country,
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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s state epidemiologist is urging a halt to more than 300,000 coronavirus vaccinations using a Moderna vaccine version because some people received medical treatment for possible severe allergic reactions. Dr. Erica S. Pan on Sunday recommended providers
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People with diabetes have a notoriously complex relationship with food. Food and nutrition are a cornerstone of a healthy life with diabetes, and balancing it with insulin intake, exercise, sleep, and stress management can be a lot to handle. This article will outline strategies that you can implement to cultivate a healthier relationship with food.
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LUXEMBOURG, Jan. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Steba biotech, pioneering developer of the IMmune Photo Activate Cancer Treatment (ImPACT), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for padeliporfin ImPACT for the treatment of adult patients with low-grade and unifocal high-grade Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer (UTUC). This swiftly follows clearance of the Investigational New Drug (IND) application granted in December 2020 allowing
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TOKYO & MUNICH & BASKING RIDGE, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE) January 15, 2021 — Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd.  (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo) and AstraZeneca’s Enhertu (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki) has been approved in the U.S. for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic HER2 positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma who have received a prior trastuzumab-based
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January 15, 2021 Audience: Health Care Professionals January 15, 2021 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting health care professionals to labeling updates for the preparation of vinca alkaloids, a group of chemotherapy agents that includes vincristine sulfate injection, vinblastine sulfate (for) injection, and vinorelbine tartrate injection. To reduce the potential for unintended intrathecal
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delivers remarks on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 15, 2020. Andrew Kelly | Reuters New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Monday for the ability to buy Covid-19 vaccine doses directly from the company. But the company
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Variation in consumption of market-acquired foods outside of the traditional diet — but not in total calories burned daily — is reliably related to indigenous Amazonian children’s body fat, according to a Baylor University study that offers insight into the global obesity epidemic. The importance of a poor diet versus low energy expenditure on the
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On Dec. 16, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) began vaccinating its staff against coronavirus infection, and vaccination of federal prisoners is expected to start very soon. But so far, the federal government has remained silent regarding nearly 16,000 immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the staff who work at immigration detention facilities,
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What is the COVID-19 vaccine? The COVID-19 vaccine is used to give your body immunity to the coronavirus (COVID-19). There are two vaccines currently available. These vaccines use a technology called messenger RNA (mRNA). mRNA vaccines are a new type of vaccine for infectious diseases, but researchers have been studying and working with them for
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With hospitals scaling back offered procedures and the fear of contracting COVID-19 in hospitals, many people have been forgoing annual health screenings throughout the pandemic. Among those procedures being avoided is mammograms. A recent study out of California found that this year, women have been less apt to get their mammograms and more apt to
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