July 14, 2021 Audience: Consumer NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., JULY 14, 2021 – Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. (JJCI) is voluntarily recalling all lots of five Neutrogena® and Aveeno® aerosol sunscreen product lines to the consumer level. Internal testing identified low levels of benzene in some samples of the products. Consumers should stop using the affected
Month: July 2021
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Rochelle Walensky testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to examine the FY 2022 budget request for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 19, 2021 in Washington,DC. Jim Lo Scalzo | AFP | Getty Images Tennessee’s decision to cease vaccine outreach
In a recently published article in The Lancet’s Child & Adolescent Health, scientists have described in detail neurological and psychiatric manifestations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in children. As mentioned in the study, an estimated prevalence of infection-related neurological complications and pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome in hospitalized children and adolescents is
Kids ages 12 and up can get vaccinated with Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot in the U.S. But what about those under 12? Will they be able to return to the classroom this fall confident in their immune protection against the Delta variant? Here’s an anticipated pediatric timeline for clinical trials and potential authorization for the three
It comes as no surprise that timely treatment is an important factor in the survivability of breast cancer. However, you may be a bit more surprised to hear that getting done with treatment quickly can also promote survival. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi found that there was a notable increase
The UK is enjoying real success with its COVID-19 vaccine coverage. Around 85% of adults (44.8 million people) have received one vaccine dose and 63% (33 million people) both doses, with around 160,000 doses a day still being administered. Vaccination with two doses helps prevent infection, and in those that do still get infected, lessens
“There are no interventions that have been shown to be effective in attaining viral suppression in people who inject drugs (PWID),” 2021 HIV/AIDS Research Avenir Award winner Hansel Tookes, MD, infectious disease specialist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, told Medscape Medical News. Tookes is one of two recipients of
1 in 25 newly diagnosed cancer cases in the last year may be associated with drinking alcohol, according to a global study published in The Lancet Oncology. The study calculated that 17,000 cases of cancer in the UK in 2020 could be linked to alcohol consumption. The authors of the paper are calling for greater
Get the most from your exercise routine with the help of workout supplements. But how effective are these and how do they affect the body? Here’s what you need to know, as well as products that you should try. Workout Supplements Effects If you’re a regular gym-goer, then you’ve already heard of pre-workout supplements. Available in pill, capsule or
Researchers from Kumamoto University, Japan have found that a component derived from turmeric essential oil, aromatic turmerone (ar-turmerone), and its derivatives act directly on dopaminergic nerves to create a neuroprotective effect on tissue cultures of a Parkinson’s disease model. This appears to be due to enhanced cellular antioxidant potency from the activation of Nrf2. The
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating West Virginia’s former health commissioner as the nation’s top anti-drug official, tapping a doctor who served on the front lines of the nation’s opioid epidemic. The White House said Tuesday that Dr. Rahul Gupta will be the first physician to lead the Office of National Drug Control
A pedestrian walks past Biogen Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Monday, June 7, 2021. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock on Wednesday pushed back against questions from a journalist about the controversial approval of Biogen‘s Alzheimer’s medication, Aduhelm. During an interview at STAT’s Breakthrough
Researchers in the United States have provided a high-resolution description of the viral dynamics involved in acute infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The team’s daily longitudinal sampling of 60 newly infected individuals revealed that significant person-to-person variation in the shedding of infectious
A cognitively active lifestyle that involves reading and processing information in old age may delay the onset of dementia in Alzheimer’s disease by as much as 5 years, a longitudinal study suggested. Older adults who had the highest level of late-life cognitive activity had a mean onset age of Alzheimer’s dementia of 94, reported Robert
by Lucretia Hurley-Browning I keep notes on lots of things…..notes and lists. Lists of what needs to be done….notes on what I am experiencing. Over the weekend as I was ‘purging’ my computer of all kinds of lists and some notes, I came across a several-year-old note from a precious visit with a woman, two years
Roughly 10 million adults in the United States struggle with dysphagia, the term used to describe difficulty swallowing. It’s common for people with Alzheimer’s to have this issue, but it also appears in people with autism spectrum disorder and patients undergoing cancer treatments like chemotherapy. It can also affect those with Down syndrome, Parkinson’s disease,
The period after cancer surgery can be a stressful and uncertain time. Despite surgeons’ best efforts, it’s difficult to know whether someone’s cancer has been completely removed, or if a little is left behind. And that distinction is crucial, because even if a small number of cancer cells remain, it could mean a patient’s cancer
Research into long Covid has revealed promising results that a diagnostic test could be developed in the future Most people who catch Covid will recover fully within 12 weeks, but for some, the symptoms linger. Long Covid is the name we’ve given this condition which has been likened to ME/CFS by some. So far there
Masks help prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, yet masking policies in the west have featured some spectacular policy wrong turns. Here are some. 1. Ignoring Asia Early studies showed that countries (mostly Asian) that made mask-wearing mandatory within 30 days of the first case emerging had dramatically fewer COVID-19 cases
Alcohol consumption accounted for 4% of all cancers diagnosed worldwide in 2020, with three quarters of these cancers occurring in men. The most common cancer locations were the esophagus, liver, and breast. The finding comes from an analysis carried out by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It was published online in The Lancet
Peru has the highest number of COVID deaths per capita, by far. For every 100,000 of the population, 596 have died of COVID. This is almost double the next hardest-hit country, Hungary, which has 307 deaths per 100,000 people. There are many reasons Peru has fared so badly in the pandemic. They include a poorly
28 June 2021 — The MEDLEY Phase II/III trial evaluated the safety and tolerability of nirsevimab compared to Synagis (palivizumab) when given to infants at high risk of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) entering their first RSV season.1 The trial assessed the safety of nirsevimab in infants with chronic lung disease (CLD), congenital heart disease (CHD) and/or prematurity.
News FDA Alerts Initial Results of Near Real-Time Safety Monitoring of COVID-19 Vaccines in Persons Aged 65 Years and Older July 9, 2021 Audience: Patient, Health Professional, Pharmacy July 9, 2021 — FDA has routinely been using screening methods to monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and to evaluate potential adverse events of interest (AEI)
Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center . It’s been 18 months sine a public health emergency was declared in the United States because of SARS-VoV-2 and questions still swirl around the crisis, as evidenced by an expert panel on Tuesday trying to come up with some hard answers. Even
More and more U.S. counties with low vaccination rates are starting see Covid cases climb, putting residents at risk for “unnecessary” infections, hospitalizations and potentially deaths as the delta variant tears through the country, according to U.S. health officials. “After several weeks of declining numbers of cases, followed by a long plateau, we are seeing
A clinic to help transgender young people and their families receive quicker support has boosted mental health, family functioning and quality of life, according to a new study. The research, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in Pediatrics, found the clinic in Melbourne led to lower levels of depression and anxiety
Women continued to be paid less than men in academic medicine, with gender gaps in salary and representation most pronounced in cardiology and other procedural specialties, according to a cross-sectional analysis. In 2018 and 2019, female representation approached 50% at the instructor and assistant professor ranks in internal medicine, but fell to 24% at full
Was Sha’Carri Richardson’s Olympics suspension after testing positive for cannabis justified? As a cannabinoid specialist, I have a unique perspective on the science and the politics of cannabis. The irony to me is that this situation is entirely a political problem. I’m of two minds. Arguably the rules, rightly or wrongly, are the rules —
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