October 7, 2024
(Axios) – Hospitals are starting to run short of critical IV fluids and devising workarounds after a North Carolina manufacturing plant that furnished more than half of the domestic supply was taken down by Hurricane Helene. Why it matters: Health … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Axios) – A routine checkup in some parts of the country may now come with a side of Botox, a weight-loss drug or a comprehensive blood screening to suss out medical conditions, all usually offered on a cash-only basis. Why … Read More
October 7, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The path to discovering a blockbuster drug is often unpredictable. A promising molecule might be overlooked for decades, only to regain attention when new scientific insights spark fresh interest from pharmaceutical companies. Such is the case … Read More
October 7, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 6, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 4, 2024
(Nature) – Nature talks to the mpox coordinator for Africa’s public-health agency about how the continent is handling its first jabs ever. Mpox has spread to 15 African countries in 2024, six of which had never seen a single case … Read More
October 4, 2024
(New York Times) – The daunting health challenges facing sick and disabled children in Ukraine are a cruel reminder that the war’s tentacles stretch far beyond the front line. They have suffered from misdiagnoses, lapses in treatment, a lack of … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Nature) – The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies. One woman and two men with severe autoimmune conditions have gone into remission after being treated with bioengineered and CRISPR-modified immune cells. … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Reuters) – Rwanda will start cinical trials of experimental vaccines and treatments for Marburg disease in the next few weeks, its health minister said on Thursday, to fight the country’s first outbreak of the viral fever, which has so far … Read More
October 4, 2024
(NBC News) – Baxter International said it would temporarily close production at its North Cove, North Carolina-based facility, raising concerns about a potential nationwide shortage. Hospitals across the U.S. are taking steps to conserve their supplies of IV fluids after … Read More
October 4, 2024
(NBC News) – Dozens of hospital workers are unaccounted for, unreachable by phone and possibly stuck in inaccessible areas. But nearly a week after the storm’s ferocious floodwaters destroyed so much of the western part of the state, Kaufmann, the … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Slate) – The criteria for the condition have expanded since the 1980s, scooping up patients who say the diagnosis has steered them down the wrong path. But some psychiatrists think that the bipolar diagnosis has actually gone too far—that there … Read More
October 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Residency programs in states where abortion is restricted are drawing fewer applicants Dr. Kyle Baugh has a choice to make. In the penultimate year of her residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at Indiana University School … Read More
October 3, 2024
(NBC News) – Five days after Hurricane Helene, water is just now flowing at Asheville, North Carolina’s largest hospital, thanks to a freshly dug well. Facing what could be months without a steady water supply, the only solution for Mission … Read More
October 3, 2024
(Associated Press) – A San Diego doctor became the third person to plead guilty in the case of Matthew Perry ’s fatal drug overdose, as prosecutors collect cooperators in an attempt to convict two bigger targets they say are responsible … Read More
October 3, 2024
(STAT News) – Often, women with sickle cell disease are told not to have kids. They might come to an appointment, happily pregnant, only for the doctor to tell them they shouldn’t be. They might be preparing for a scheduled … Read More
October 2, 2024
(Undark) – Precision medicine relies on genetic data that’s lacking in Latin America — especially for Indigenous groups. At stake is the practice of precision or personalized medicine, which uses individual variability, including genes, to make decisions regarding diagnosis or … Read More
October 2, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 391, no. 11, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 1, 2024
(New York Times) – Death rates are declining among U.S. women with breast cancer. But the disease is turning up more often in women under age 50. Rates of breast cancer — the second leading cause of cancer deaths in … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Washington Post) – In its annual report of yearly procedures for 2023, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons dubbed the new popular look the “ballet body.” Fueled by the rise of the blockbuster GLP-1 drugs, including Ozempic and Wegovy, thinness … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Washington Post) – At least a dozen employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly accessed the medical records of vice-presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz this summer, VA investigators found, in a violation of federal health privacy laws … Read More
October 1, 2024
(New York Times) – The state said that despite a doctor’s recommendation and state law, a Catholic hospital declined to provide an abortion because fetal heart tones were present. Officials in the attorney general’s office say they believe this to … Read More
October 1, 2024
(Axios) – The already fragile medical supply chain is facing more stress this week, after Hurricane Helene ravaged a huge Baxter International plant in North Carolina that makes IV fluids for many U.S. hospitals. Why it matters: While the damage … Read More
September 30, 2024
(Science) – Agency fines Cassava $40 million, and two of its employees lesser amounts, over research on simufilam The troubled biopharma company Cassava Sciences agreed last week to pay $40 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges … Read More
September 30, 2024
(NBC News) – State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behavior and … Read More
September 30, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Drug middlemen are duking it out to buy their customers. Most Americans pick up their prescription drugs at the local pharmacy, but many pricey medications are bought directly by medical providers. Think, for example, of a … Read More
