Medical
Naloxone Injection, Syringe System Recalled
The FDA announced there is a possibility for "loose particulate matter on the syringe plunger" which could result in a range of adverse events. Below are the two lots that have been recalled. Package labeling recommends visual inspection to detect the presence of discoloration or particulates before administration, which would diminish the risks for using these lots. [Full Article...]
Medicare’s financial problems worsening, government warns
Medicare will run out of money sooner than expected, and Social Security's financial problems can't be ignored either, the government said today in a sobering checkup on programs vital to the middle class. Social Security covers 62 million people, split among retired workers and their dependents, survivors of workers who've died and disabled people. Democrats, meanwhile, want to extend the socia... [Full Article...]
Abiraterone Plus Leuprolide Offers Edge in M0 Hormone-Naive Prostate Cancer
One of them is Michael English (72), who found out he had cancer in 2005. "Today I'm effectively cancer-free". The new trial relates to immunotherapy drugs . "This is important as although immunotherapy is exciting, it can have severe side effects". Immunotherapy drugs work by stimulating the immune system to recognise and fight the cancer, and are used to treat some advanced cancers, inclu... [Full Article...]
Five dead in worst USE coli outbreak in more than a decade
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is investigating the outbreak alongside the CDC, believes that the probable link to all these illnesses is romaine lettuce sourced from the winter growing areas in and around the Yuma growing region in Arizona. [Full Article...]
'Remarkable' therapy beats terminal breast cancer
Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical and scientific officer for the American Cancer Society said that he was "delighted" by the study and anxious about unnecessary cancer treatment and the side effects that come from chemotherapy . He is not an author of the study, but his hospital participated. Two-and-a-half years after getting the new cells, the woman is cancer-free. She remains free of cance... [Full Article...]
Oldest living Miss America endorses decision to drop swimsuit competition
The Miss America telecast will still have an evening-wear competition but contestants will be encouraged to "outwardly express their self-confidence in evening attire of their choosing", the org stated. Carlson has been at the forefront of sexual-harassment issues for several years, garnering $20 million in settling a lawsuit against Fox News chief Roger Ailes in 2016. [Full Article...]
State board approves licenses for 56 medical marijuana dispensaries
Overall, almost 20 applications were turned in from sites asking to operate a dispensary in Mahoning, Trumbull, or Columbiana county. Dispensary licenses were denied for GTI Ohio LLC in Richmond Heights and 127 OH LLC in Euclid, but five licenses were approved for other dispensaries in Cuyahoga County. [Full Article...]
Automatic texting helps ease stress of chemotherapy in breast cancer patients
Ten years later it came back and had spread. James Doroshow, director of the division of cancer treatment and diagnosis at the National Cancer Institute , which was the primary sponsor of the study, predicted that the trial would lead to changes in treatment "for a large number of potential patients". [Full Article...]