NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade Reveals Kidney Cancer Diagnosis
(MedPage Today) -- Basketball Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade talked for the first time yesterday about his surgery for kidney ...
Month: January 2025
Trial Shines Light on Questionable Benefits of Tocolytics for Preterm Birth
(MedPage Today) -- AURORA, Colo. -- Atosiban, an oxytocin receptor antagonist available in Europe, was not superior to placebo in ...
New York Doctor Indicted for Prescribing Abortion Pill in Louisiana
(MedPage Today) -- A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an ...
Acute Migraine Treatment Gets a New Drug
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved an oral combination of meloxicam and rizatriptan (Symbravo) to treat adults with acute migraine ...
Ophthalmic Complications Observed After Use of GLP-1 Agonists
(MedPage Today) -- Though it was not possible to determine causality, a retrospective case series identified nine patients who developed ...
US Health Agencies Scrubbing Websites to Remove ‘gender Ideology’
(Reuters) -Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies are scrubbing or taking ...
‘Contaminating’ Fake Research; Oncologist Shortage Grows; You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
(MedPage Today) -- A growing problem with fake medical research papers has "contaminated" scientific literature and slowed legitimate research with ...
Three Cancer Medicines Green-Lighted in Europe
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency has recommended that marketing authorizations be ...
FDA Clears NSAID/Triptan Combo for Migraine in Adults
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a novel formulation combining rizatriptan and the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug meloxicam ...
Campaigner launches bid to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s
Hugh Pym and Nick TriggleBBC NewsBBC NewsKeira Bell says she deeply regrets the treatments that she underwent Health Secretary Wes ...
Maternal Sepsis Rates Spiked After Texas Abortion Law in High-Risk Group
(MedPage Today) -- AURORA, Colo. -- Adverse maternal outcomes, particularly sepsis, increased in pregnancies with previable premature rupture of membranes ...
Most Ditch GLP-1 Drugs for Weight Loss Within a Year
(MedPage Today) -- Just over half of patients with overweight or obesity discontinued their GLP-1 receptor agonist within 1 year, ...
EMA to Review New Safety Data on Alzheimer’s Drug Leqembi
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced it will review new safety data on the Alzheimer’s disease drug Leqembi (lecanemab). This ...
Family Alleges Cover-Up in Case of Patient Who Died After Having His Liver Removed
(MedPage Today) -- The widow of William Bryan -- the man who allegedly was killed after a surgeon removed his ...
AstraZeneca ditches £450m investment in UK plant
AstraZenecaAstraZeneca has scrapped plans to invest £450m in expanding a vaccine manufacturing plant in Liverpool, blaming a reduction in government ...
FDA OKs First-In-Class Nonopioid Pain Med Suzetrigine
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved suzetrigine 50 mg tablets (Journavx, Vertex Pharmaceuticals), a first-in-class nonopioid analgesic ...
EMA Expedites Adolescent Chikungunya Vaccine Recommendation
In its first meeting of 2025, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) gave ...
EMA Recommends Approval of Capvaxive Pneumococcal Vaccine
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting marketing authorization for the pneumococcal vaccine Capvaxive (pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine ) intended ...
Some Hospitals Pause Gender-Affirming Care to Evaluate Trump’s Executive Order
(MedPage Today) -- Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia, and the nation's capital said Thursday they have paused gender-affirming care for young ...
Europe Approval Facilitates Worm Treatment Where It Matters
Europe’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion for ivermectin-albendazole to treat soil-transmitted helminth infections, ...
