Advocacy, Education of Individuals With Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Are Important to Support Patient Outcomes

Patients with hematologic myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs)—a group of rare blood diseases that include primary myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia (ET), and polycythemia vera (PV)—should be more active in their treatment plan, according to experts in oncology pharmacy who participated in a Pharmacy Times clinical forum in Chicago, Illinois, in June 2023. “Our role as pharmacists is to […]

CDC Recommends RSV Shot for Infants. Infectious Disease Doctor Shares What Parents Need to Know

Cook Children’s Neuroscience Research Published in Brain Journal for 2nd Time This Year May 10 , 2023 | 10:43 AM America/Chicago Within a few months, the Neurosciences Research Center at Cook Children’s, which is led by Professor Christos Papadelis, Ph.D., published a second paper in the esteemed neurology journal Brain. Through this work, Papadelis’ team […]

Disparities in Antiviral Treatment for HCV Lead to Prolonged Infection

New research has found low rates of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatment initiation for hepatitis C virus (HCV) among individuals who inject drugs, suggesting that policies should be enacted to reduce disparities. HCV co-infection awareness | Image credit: Chinnapong – stock.adobe.com The hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a public health problem in the United States, […]

Paramore Cancels Remaining North American Tour Dates as Hayley Williams Battles Lung Infection

Health First “It got a little scary tonight,” Williams shared after their Seattle show. “I’m so sorry for all the chaos this has caused some of you. I really tried to kick this shit.” The North American leg of Paramore’s This Is Why tour has come to an end sooner than anticipated. Following a performance […]

What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos

Two weeks – the 14-day Rule Of immediate concern are the ramifications of the 14-day rule, which imposes a (voluntary in the US) moratorium on experimentation on human embryos older than 14 days; after that, they must be terminated. Strictly speaking, at this point, the fertilized egg (zygote) is called by various names, e.g., blastocyst […]

What the Law and Bioethics Have to Tell Us About Synthetic Human

Two weeks – the 14-day Rule Of immediate concern are the ramifications of the 14-day rule, which imposes a (voluntary in the US) moratorium on experimentation on human embryos older than 14 days; after that, they must be terminated. Strictly speaking, at this point, the fertilized egg (zygote) is called by various names, e.g., blastocyst […]

Early, Appropriate Treatment for Postpartum Depression Can Help New Mothers

Pregnancy is usually happy news.1 But for some women, cultural stigmas, discrimination, socioeconomic concerns, and poorly understood biologic contributors associated with pregnancy trigger perinatal mood disorders during pregnancy and the year following childbirth.2,3 Women are at higher risk of depression or anxiety during the perinatal period than at any other time,4 and suicide in the […]

Harvest of horseshoe crabs, needed for blue blood, stopped during spawning season in national refuge

The federal government is shutting down the harvest of a species of marine invertebrate in a national wildlife refuge during the spawning season to try to give the animal a chance to reproduce. Fishermen harvest horseshoe crabs so the animals can be used as bait and so their blood can be used to make medical […]

Paramore Cut Tour Short, Citing Hayley Williams’ Lung Infection

Paramore have cut short their North American tour behind This Is Why so Hayley Williams can recover from a lung infection, the frontwoman wrote on her Instagram story. Two weeks ago the shows in question—in Portland, Oregon, and Salt Lake City, Utah—had been postponed until this week, but this time, those dates were canceled altogether. […]