Older Adults Should Get Another COVID Booster, CDC Advisors Say High hospitalization rates, low vaccine uptake behind decision Feb 28, 2024
The Misleading Headlines Behind the New COVID Vaccine Safety Study The study just confirms what we already knew Feb 28, 2024
One Week On, Pharmacies Still Hampered by Cyberattack at Change Healthcare Ransomware attack has made it difficult to process pharmacy claims Feb 28, 2024
Abdominal Fat and Dementia; Mask Ban Lawsuit Tossed; FDA Rejects Psych Drug Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by app staff Feb 28, 2024
Fact Check: No, COVID-Vaccinated People Aren't Banned From Giving Blood Debunking false claims of "tainted" blood Feb 26, 2024
FDA Authorized Florida's Drug Importation Plan. Naysayers Are Balking. It's not an efficient solution Feb 24, 2024
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Prior Authorization? Possibly, but "complete transparency" about its use would be needed, expert says Feb 23, 2024
Largest COVID Vax Safety Study; Kratom Deaths Rising; Gov. Threatens Hospital Chain Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by app staff Feb 21, 2024
When It Comes to Isolation, COVID Shouldn't Be Singled Out From the Pack It's time for CDC to update its guidance Feb 20, 2024
Discrimination Rampant in Healthcare; Spring COVID Booster? Lyme Disease Jumps 69% Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by app staff Feb 16, 2024
Lawmakers Clash Over COVID Vaccine Safety at House Hearing Purpose of CDC's VAERS reporting system debated Feb 15, 2024
Shingrix Tied to Higher Risk of Ophthalmic Shingles Recurrence Patients with a history of herpes zoster ophthalmicus who get the vaccine need careful monitoring Feb 15, 2024
COVID's Latest Adaptation: It Has Lulled Us to Sleep My doctor's refusal to prescribe "just-in-case" Paxlovid speaks volumes Feb 15, 2024
U.S. Probes Role of Supply Chain Middlemen in Generic Shortages Goal: identify "root causes" and "potential solutions" Feb 15, 2024
Phenylephrine Sales Steady Before FDA Panel Called It Ineffective But reformulation of products containing OTC "decongestant" could affect the supply chain Feb 09, 2024
Biden's Memory Lapses; Pharmacist Dies on the Job; Arrested for Brain Bleed? Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by app staff Feb 09, 2024
Expensive Generics: Where Direct-to-Consumer Pharmacies Fall Short The most pricey generics weren't often available at Amazon, Costco, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Feb 07, 2024
Bivalent Vax Protected Kids From Symptomatic COVID "Every different way that we sliced this, we found that the vaccine was effective" Feb 06, 2024 video
Medicine or Candy? Let's Reevaluate the Vitamins We Offer to Kids Children should give standard pills a try before turning to alternatives Feb 06, 2024
More Evidence Maternal COVID Vaccination Safe for Newborns Lower mortality rate, fewer brain lesions in vaccine-exposed neonates, study found Feb 06, 2024
What Is Tianeptine and Why Is It in Demand? Here's why this unregulated compound is known as "gas station heroin" Feb 01, 2024
Here's How Effective the Latest COVID-19 Shots Are for Adults Effectiveness of the 2023-2024 vaccine lands at 54% for symptomatic cases Feb 01, 2024
Single-Dose Dengue Vaccine Effective, Regardless of Baseline Serostatus Role of Brazilian Zika outbreak on baseline dengue immunity needs study, expert says Jan 31, 2024
Low-Dose Aspirin in Pregnancy Doesn't Impact Kids' Brain Development New data further prove the safety of aspirin use in pregnancy Jan 29, 2024
Hacking of Docs' Rx Accounts Led to Bonanza of Illegal Pills, Prosecutors Say Drugs allegedly picked up in multiple states and resold online Jan 27, 2024
Effective Treatments Identified for Pediatric Complication of COVID RECOVERY trial evaluated immunomodulatory therapy and corticosteroids Jan 26, 2024
Why Measles Keeps Popping Up in Pockets of the U.S. Paul Offit, MD, on the history of the MMR vaccine and the lasting legacy of COVID Jan 26, 2024 video
Infusion Drug Mark-Ups Higher at Safety Net Hospitals Study shows big difference in reimbursement-to-acquisition cost ratio versus private practice Jan 24, 2024
Why I Hope the COVID Pandemic Isn't Over More dwindling before it "ends" would promote better health outcomes Jan 24, 2024
Maternal Vaccination Lowers Odds of Respiratory Distress in COVID-Exposed Infants Preterm, COVID-exposed infants with respiratory distress had marked inflammatory responses Jan 24, 2024
New FDA Boxed Warning; College Shaken by Suicides; More Get Flu Shot Than COVID Vax Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by app staff Jan 23, 2024
COVID Vax During Pregnancy Safe for Infant Brain Development, Study Suggests Observational data out to 18 months await confirmation in longer-term follow-up Jan 22, 2024
Newborns Better Protected With 3 Doses of Maternal COVID Vaccine And cord anti-S antibody levels were the same for preterm and full-term pregnancies, study shows Jan 19, 2024
$300K Fine for Midwife Who Gave Kids Homeopathic Pellets Instead of Vaccines In 2019, New York ended a religious exemption for school vaccination requirements Jan 18, 2024
Dead Nurse Found in Freezer; Deadly Hospital Error; Weight-Loss Compounder Crashes This past week in healthcare investigations Jan 17, 2024
IG Live January 17: From Long COVID Symptoms to Solutions Leading long COVID researcher Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, discusses new research Jan 16, 2024
Neurologic Risk Slight After COVID Vaccines, Extensive Review Shows Immune-mediated neurologic events may include Guillain-Barre syndrome or Bell's palsy Jan 16, 2024
Would You Switch a Patient's Medication if You Knew the Cost? Optimizing price estimate alert design and logic should be a priority Jan 13, 2024
COVID Vax and Blood Clots; Cancer Rise in Young Adults; Corpse-Abuse Charge Dropped Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by app staff Jan 12, 2024