The administration will target the cost of biosimilars, or products that are highly similar to an existing FDA product with no meaningfully clinical difference, for low-income Medicare recipients. "Some of the specific changes we are finalizing include streamlining the review and approval process of materials that communicate Medicare health and drug plan information to beneficiaries, allowing ele... [Full Article...]
The FDA says it issued the recall after the company failed to comply with its request for a voluntary recall. The FDA said it's the third time it has ever initiated the process of using its mandatory recall authority, but the first time the agency has gotten to the step of mandating a recall because a company opted not to conduct a voluntary recall following an FDA recommendation to do so. [Full Article...]
As often happens late in flu season, influenza B has become the dominant circulating strain: By mid-March, more doctors and clinics were seeing patients who tested positive for flu B than for flu A, according to the CDC . "We know there's a part of the virus that always drifts or changes from season to season". Spring continues to take the bite out of this year's brutal flu season, new numb... [Full Article...]
Fire Chief Rod Davis tells KMVT it started from the chimney and progressed into the attic area. After the fire was extinguished, the body of an adult male victim was located inside the residence, the press release said. The fire broke out around 7 a.m., but the source of the blaze remains under investigation. The fire was mainly contained to the kitchen but there was smoke damage throughout th... [Full Article...]
Some of the sick patients had travelled for surgery or other health care to another country where drug-resistant germs are more common, and the superbug infections were discovered after they returned to the U.S. Because it was the first time that data from the ARLN were available, Schuchat said there is no way to tell if the number of what she called "unusual" bacteria in US health care centers ... [Full Article...]
Setting one's HIV status is optional in the app, and Grindr warns users about data-sharing in its privacy policy . Grindr said if users did not want their data being shared with these companies, they should not have volunteered it. The report prompted a backlash among some users and advocacy groups that saw the sharing of data as a breach of users' trust. On Tuesday, in response to questi... [Full Article...]
Some states, however, still believe it is a "gateway" drug toward other harder illegal drugs such as heroin. While, Medicaid enrollees filled almost 40 fewer opioid prescriptions per 1,000 people each year after cannabis became accessible. The second study found a similar effect among people covered by Medicaid. Medical marijuana was initially approved by MA voters in 2012. Patients in states th... [Full Article...]
To add the organ donor designation to an existing driver's license or ID card today, visit www.dmv.pa.gov and select the "Donate Life Pennsylvania" icon in the middle column of the page. Other community partners hosting educational events in April include local hospitals and transplant centers, restaurants, businesses, high schools and colleges across Southern California. [Full Article...]
The administration will target the cost of biosimilars, or products that are highly similar to an existing FDA product with no meaningfully clinical difference, for low-income Medicare recipients. "Some of the specific changes we are finalizing include streamlining the review and approval process of materials that communicate Medicare health and drug plan information to beneficiaries, allowing ele... [Full Article...]
The FDA says it issued the recall after the company failed to comply with its request for a voluntary recall. The FDA said it's the third time it has ever initiated the process of using its mandatory recall authority, but the first time the agency has gotten to the step of mandating a recall because a company opted not to conduct a voluntary recall following an FDA recommendation to do so. [Full Article...]
As often happens late in flu season, influenza B has become the dominant circulating strain: By mid-March, more doctors and clinics were seeing patients who tested positive for flu B than for flu A, according to the CDC . "We know there's a part of the virus that always drifts or changes from season to season". Spring continues to take the bite out of this year's brutal flu season, new numb... [Full Article...]
Fire Chief Rod Davis tells KMVT it started from the chimney and progressed into the attic area. After the fire was extinguished, the body of an adult male victim was located inside the residence, the press release said. The fire broke out around 7 a.m., but the source of the blaze remains under investigation. The fire was mainly contained to the kitchen but there was smoke damage throughout th... [Full Article...]
Some of the sick patients had travelled for surgery or other health care to another country where drug-resistant germs are more common, and the superbug infections were discovered after they returned to the U.S. Because it was the first time that data from the ARLN were available, Schuchat said there is no way to tell if the number of what she called "unusual" bacteria in US health care centers ... [Full Article...]
Setting one's HIV status is optional in the app, and Grindr warns users about data-sharing in its privacy policy . Grindr said if users did not want their data being shared with these companies, they should not have volunteered it. The report prompted a backlash among some users and advocacy groups that saw the sharing of data as a breach of users' trust. On Tuesday, in response to questi... [Full Article...]
Some states, however, still believe it is a "gateway" drug toward other harder illegal drugs such as heroin. While, Medicaid enrollees filled almost 40 fewer opioid prescriptions per 1,000 people each year after cannabis became accessible. The second study found a similar effect among people covered by Medicaid. Medical marijuana was initially approved by MA voters in 2012. Patients in states th... [Full Article...]
To add the organ donor designation to an existing driver's license or ID card today, visit www.dmv.pa.gov and select the "Donate Life Pennsylvania" icon in the middle column of the page. Other community partners hosting educational events in April include local hospitals and transplant centers, restaurants, businesses, high schools and colleges across Southern California. [Full Article...]