Category: Drugs
Cervical pre-cancer rates down 88% in decade since HPV vaccinations began in UK
New findings clearly show that the routine HPV vaccination program has been a resounding success.
Measles: should vaccinations be compulsory?
Precedents exist for making people have certain vaccines. Perhaps it’s time to extend this.
Preventing harm from edible cannabis products
Washington Poison Center’s role in preventing and reducing harm from cannabis use.
Flu remains widespread in King County
Area hospitals are reporting a big uptick in the number of flu cases so far in March.
Fentanyl-Linked Deaths: The U.S. Opioid Epidemic’s Third Wave
First came prescription pain medications, then heroin, and now fentanyl.
Does It Make Sense To Delay Children’s Vaccines?
A gradual approach to vaccinations is better than no vaccinations at all. But delaying vaccines is risky.
How to Regulate the Hemp Food Craze?
Regulators say adding the hemp product cannabidiol (CBD) to food are essentially adding prescription drugs to food.
1 in 4 older adults prescribed a benzodiazepine goes on to risky long-term use, study
On average, the patients were 78 years old when they received their first prescription, which guidelines say should rarely if be given to adults over age 65.
Patients Experiment With Prescription Drugs To Fight Aging
Metformin is prescribed for diabetes, and rapamycin prevents organ rejection after a transplant, but doctors can prescribe drugs off-label for “aging.”
Americans Cross Border Into Mexico To Buy Insulin At A Fraction Of U.S. Cost
For one patient, a three-month supply of insulin is $3,700 in the U.S. versus $600 in Mexico. But is it legal?
Big Pharma Gave Money To Patient Advocacy Groups Opposing Medicare Changes
By Sydney Lupkin and Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News, and Victoria Knight. Dozens of patient advocacy groups, like the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, recently appeared in national advertisements objecting to a…
More Babies Are Being Born With Syphilis. Blame Meth and Opioids.
Editor’s note: This article was updated Feb. 26 to show that 18 states, including Michigan, have screening requirements in a woman’s third trimester for all pregnancies or for those considered at high risk of infection. Alayna Alvarez Edittorial Assistant, Stateline Some…
Americans Ready To Crack Down On Drug Prices
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News Large majorities of Americans from both major parties support steps to control prescription drug costs such as showing prices in ads, removing barriers to generics and letting patients get less expensive drugs from Canada,…
A Parent-To-Parent Campaign To Get Vaccine Rates Up
Alex Olgin, WFAEKaiser Health News In 2017, Kim Nelson had just moved her family back to her hometown in South Carolina. Boxes were still scattered around the apartment, and while her two young daughters played, Nelson scrolled through a newspaper…
Trump administration moves to cut Planned Parenthood funding
HHS Finalizes Rule Seeking To Expel Planned Parenthood From Family Planning Program By Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News The Trump administration Friday finalized a regulation intended to push Planned Parenthood out of the Title X federal family planning program, keeping…