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GLP-1s and Alcohol Use Disorder; No Luck With Gonorrhea Vaccine
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical... -
Restrictions on Physician-Owned Hospitals are Justified
(MedPage Today) -- In 2008, The Washington Post reported on a devastating tragedy. A 44-year-old went into respiratory arrest following elective surgery at a physician-owned hospital in Abilene, Texas. The facility, which only provided limited... -
This Year's Ebola Outbreak Has Spread Faster Than the Worst on Record
(MedPage Today) -- The Ebola outbreak in Congo has killed over 1,000 people, reaching the grim milestone nearly three times faster than the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic that is considered the worst on record.
Data from Congo's Ministry of Health shows... -
Study Links GLP-1s to Lower Risk of Fragility Fractures in Diabetes Patients
(MedPage Today) -- Starting a GLP-1 receptor agonist for type 2 diabetes was associated with a lower risk of fragility fractures in adults 50 and older, including hip and vertebral fractures, according to a large target trial emulation study.... -
Branded Bevacizumab Approved for Wet AMD
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the first formulation of bevacizumab specifically for the treatment of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), Outlook Therapeutics announced on Friday.
The approval of bevacizumab-vikg (Lytenava... -
FDA Panel Finds a Peptide It Doesn't Like
(MedPage Today) -- An FDA panel on Friday continued to recommend loosening compounding restrictions for all but one of the peptides it reviewed, despite safety concerns from agency scientists for all of them.
During the second day of deliberations... -
New Avacopan Analysis Sent to FDA After Data Manipulation Allegations
(MedPage Today) -- Amgen has submitted a third-party review of avacopan's (Tavneos) pivotal trial data and other analyses to the FDA in a bid to keep the embattled drug for severe anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis... -
FDA Approves Tylenol With Naproxen Combination
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved a combination tablet of 325-mg acetaminophen and 110-mg naproxen sodium (Tylenol with Naproxen) for over-the-counter (OTC) pain relief, the agency announced Friday.
The opioid-free combination tablet is indicated...