STAT

APRIL 30, 2024

Imagine having to make this decision: Your health care provider recommends that you take a specific medicine for an illness or condition but then tells you it hasn’t been tested in people like you. Do you take the medication, or refuse it? That’s the position the 3.5 million women who give birth each year in the U.S.

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MAY 3, 2024

A solid foundation of science grounds the understanding of bipolar disorder; what’s lacking are strong data about the experience of people with the condition.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A new study has shown that people vaccinated against Ebola who still developed the disease had a substantially lower risk of dying than people who were not vaccinated, even if they received the vaccine when they were already infected with the virus. Read the rest…

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Drug Topics

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A Q&A with Kevin Malloy, PharmD, BCPS, on how diabetes technology has improved and how it can help pregnant people manage their disease.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 23, 2023

million people would get access to healthcare. A new report projects that if states holding out from expanding Medicaid reversed course, 2.3

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

People with obesity often go underrepresented in drug development trials, a critical gap that researchers say leaves drugmakers and doctors unsure of efficacy or risks in that patient population. “People with obesity are underrepresented in clinical trials for drug approval.” ” Read the rest…

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

LONDON — Data from half a million people’s whole genome sequences are now available to researchers worldwide, as the U.K. Biobank on Thursday debuted the latest addition to what it aims to be the world’s most comprehensive health data resource. Read the rest…

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STAT

MARCH 4, 2024

Lack of health data on LGBTQ+ people has real-world consequences. A participant in a 2020 report from the National LGBT Cancer Network said: “There are no guidelines for cancers that are more prevalent among Trans women. I had to fight like hell to have an anoscopy, and sure enough we found [precancerous lesions]!”

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 1, 2024

Because alcohol is a driver of HIV-associated comorbidities, the reduction interventions may improve the health of people with HIV.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 25, 2023

UnitedHealth Group is making a $5 million investment in Enable Ventures, a fund that aims to improve the lives of people with disabilities. UnitedHealth Group is making a $5 million investment in Enable Ventures, a fund that aims to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Cochlear implants have successfully improved hearing loss for decades, but few people who qualify for an implant actually get it. Even in countries with universal healthcare, the adoption rates are dismal.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More than two dozen attorneys general are urging Food and Drug Administration officials to take urgent action to address disparities in how well pulse oximeters, the fingertip devices used to monitor a person’s oxygen levels, work on people with darker skin.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A 2021 morbidity study found that COVID-19 was among the leading causes of death in children and young people.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Most people think they will never be in such a situation. And most people are right. Imagine being in the midst of your pregnancy, and you learn that your baby is unlikely to live for more than a few fleeting moments after birth. There is no cure for their condition. Nothing can prevent their death.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

million people to 5.3 million people. The drug was already available to “people who did not need supplemental oxygen for COVID-19 and who […] The post NICE expands access to Paxlovid for 1.4 million people at risk of severe COVID-19 appeared first on Pharmafile.

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MAY 25, 2023

When people with the disease struggle to manage their blood sugar levels, they can experience significant, life-threatening and costly complications such as heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, amputation and blindness. Diabetes is a scary diagnosis for anyone.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

For people with chronic conditions and other disabilities, the experience can be even more jarring, full of additional barriers, stigma, and risks. In the United States, disabled people are less likely to be taught comprehensive sexual education and given access to contraceptives, and are more likely to have unintended pregnancies.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

There are people in your life who influence and shape how you see the world. For me, one of these people is Terry Moakley, a warm and welcoming family friend, a veteran of the Vietnam War, and a fervent advocate for people with disabilities.

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MARCH 28, 2023

A panel of experts that advises the World Health Organization on vaccine use suggested Tuesday that countries no longer need to consider offering additional Covid-19 boosters to people at medium or low risk of becoming seriously ill if they contract the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Flip the Pharmacy program provides tools to pharmacy technicians and non-pharmacy support staff Mitchell’s Drug Stores to help provide patient care.

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

APRIL 18, 2024

Elizabeth Hanna says she was fired by the American Diabetes Association after refusing to approve recipes heaped with the additive made by a major donor Elizabeth Hanna had a simple job: help people with diabetes figure out what to eat.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Older UK people back auto-enrolment in clinical trials Phil.Taylor Tue, 19/09/2023 - 08:55 Bookmark this

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Drug Store News

JUNE 28, 2023

Abbott is teaming up with the American Diabetes Association and Weight Watchers to help people with diabetes gain knowledge about food and activity.

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APRIL 3, 2023

One in six people across the globe face infertility at some point in their lifetime, according to the first new estimates from the World Health Organization in a decade. The prevalence is “staggering,” Pascale Allotey, director of sexual and reproductive health and research at WHO, said at a press conference Monday.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

“Because so many people kind of think of PBMs in the U.S. But since it’s a nonprofit company and it subsidizes medicines and tests aimed at promoting public health, it’s hesitant to describe itself that way. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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The Thyroid Pharmacist

DECEMBER 28, 2022

As far back as I can remember, I’ve wanted to help people with their health. I enrolled in a four-year PharmD program (Doctor of Pharmacy) and became a pharmacist with the goal that one day, I would be able to discover new treatments for people who were suffering. This is what I’m going to do when I grow up!”.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 17, 2022

An analysis of data from more than 640,000 people with diabetes recorded between 2015-2020 is providing new insight into what study investigators are calling "troubling" trends in the incidence of CKD in the face a growing diabetes epidemic.

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PharmaVoice

MARCH 12, 2024

As colorectal deaths rise among younger people, a diagnostic could help pinpoint more patients.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

APRIL 4, 2024

The importance of pharmacy professionals signposting children and young people experiencing gender identity issues such as gender incongruence or dysphoria to appropriate support services has been emphasised by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

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STAT

APRIL 14, 2023

Black people in counties with more Black primary care physicians live longer, according to a new national analysis that provides the strongest evidence yet that increasing the diversity of the medical workforce may be key to ending deeply entrenched racial health disparities.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 15, 2023

Capreolos debuts ‘prehab’ app for people facing surgery Phil.Taylor Thu, 15/06/2023 - 10:09 Bookmark this

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MAY 1, 2024

I am not writing here to talk about my husband, Chadwick Boseman, who died far too young from colorectal cancer. I am not here to give any glimpses into our obviously private life and his obviously private battle with this cancer, which is affecting far more young lives than it should.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

Survey data indicates that people experiencing homelessness had a lower annual incidence of COVID-19 despite having a higher burden of infectious diseases, suggesting opportunities for better integration of homelessness status in infectious disease reporting.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Researchers in the US have found that older people are far more likely to engage with digital physiotherapy programmes digitally than those in younger age groups. It could also be because older people tend to pay more attention to their MSK pain, and are more motivated to take steps to tackle it. Image by Tumisu from Pixabay.

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JULY 24, 2023

An array of cancers — colorectal chief among them — are striking people younger than 50 at higher rates than in previous decades, prompting new screening guidelines, new research, and growing concern. “People born in 1990 have over double the risk of getting colon cancer compared to those born in 1950.

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

People should not die because of their income or where they were born. We must have the courage to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry Here is a simple moral proposition.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Though it may be hard for many to fathom, even pregnant people and new parents can have active substance use disorders. They need support, not criminalization.

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