Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Health News
After a three-month hiatus, a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Mo., has begun offering abortion services again, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports. The clinic stopped performing surgical abortions and administering medical abortions because no physician was available, Peter Brownlie, executive director of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said…
No Comments »
Filed under: Women's Health
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — More batches of over-the-counter (OTC) products are being voluntarily recalled by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare — this time including two products for kids.
No Comments »
Filed under: General Health News
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Health News
(MedPage Today) — Lower-income families in health plans with high deductibles are more likely than higher-income families to delay or skip medical care in order to avoid paying for it out-of-pocket, a new study found.
No Comments »
Filed under: General Health News
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Health News
(MedPage Today) — One reason that so-called negative studies often fail to be published may be “positive-outcome bias” in peer review, said researchers who conducted a randomized trial.
No Comments »
Filed under: General Health News
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — More batches of over-the-counter (OTC) products are being voluntarily recalled by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare — this time including two products for kids.
No Comments »
Filed under: Pharmacy News
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Health News
In a finding with the potential to fundamentally change strategies to slow the global HIV epidemic, a new study called iPrEx shows that individuals at high risk for HIV infection who took a single daily tablet containing two widely used HIV medications, emtricitabine and tenofovir (FTC/TDF), experienced an average of 43.8% fewer HIV infections than [...]
No Comments »
Filed under: Pharmacy News
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Health News
The Global Campaign for Microbicides (GCM) welcomes today’s news from the Division of AIDS (DAIDS) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Gladstone Institutes of the University of California, San Francisco that daily use of oral emtricitabine (FTC) with tenofovir (TDF) in [...]
No Comments »
Filed under: Pharmacy News
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Health News
The results of the iPrEx PrEP effectiveness trial of once-daily TDF/FTC (brand name Truvada) in gay men, transgender women and other men who have sex with men are a landmark in HIV prevention research.
No Comments »
Filed under: Pharmacy News
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Health News
In a significant advance for HIV prevention research, a clinical trial confirms that the same drugs used for treating HIV can also help prevent HIV infection in the first place.
No Comments »
Filed under: Pharmacy News
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by Health News
A daily dose of an oral antiretroviral drug, currently approved to treat HIV infection, reduced the risk of acquiring HIV infection by 43.8 percent among men who have sex with men.
No Comments »
Filed under: Pharmacy News
