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FDA advisers vote unanimously in favor of allowing 1st over-the-counter birth control pill
Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Medical and scientific experts advising the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of allowing a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription. The vote could [Read More…]
American Psychological Association issues advisory for teens and social media
Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In the first guidance of its kind, the American Psychological Association (APA) has issued sweeping recommendations intended to help teenagers use social media safely. The guidance is primarily directed [Read More…]
FDA advisors vote unanimously in favor of allowing 1st over-the-counter birth control pill
Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Medical and scientific experts advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have voted in favor of allowing a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription. “The large [Read More…]
Cyberattacks on hospitals are growing threats to patient safety, experts say
ABC News (BURLINGTON, Vt.) — Jes Kraus was supposed to be going to the University of Vermont Medical Center every day for aggressive radiation and chemotherapy treatments to fight stage three colorectal cancer, for which [Read More…]
Suicide attempt survivor shares what he wants other teens to know about mental health
Courtesy Jonah Barrow (NEW YORK) — Nine months ago, near the end of August, Jonah Barrow, a high school senior, attempted to take his own life. Now, the 18-year-old from Katy, Texas, is speaking out [Read More…]
New draft guidance drops breast cancer screening age from 50 to 40 for women with average risk
MicroStockHub/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Most women with average risk should start screening for breast cancer at age 40, and they should get screened every other year through age 74, according to new draft guidance [Read More…]
FDA advisory committees meeting to discuss over-the-counter birth control
Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Advisory committees of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are meeting Tuesday and Wednesday to review the first-ever application for an over-the-counter birth control pill. At a joint meeting, [Read More…]
Angelina Jolie urges women to ‘go for mammograms and blood tests’
The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Angelina Jolie paid tribute to her late mother this week, 15 years after her death from cancer, and encouraged other women to “go for mammograms and blood tests [Read More…]
What do the changes in COVID data sharing mean for the US?
Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — As the U.S. moves into a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the public health emergency ending May 11, it also signals the end of some COVID [Read More…]
CDC won’t track COVID transmission levels anymore in major shift
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday it is changing the way it does surveillance of COVID-19 in the United States as the emergencies related to the virus come [Read More…]
WHO downgrades COVID-19, says it’s no longer public health emergency
SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (GENEVA) — The World Health Organization on Friday said it was downgrading COVID-19 and no longer characterizing it as a global health emergency. The U.N. health agency first declared the coronavirus to [Read More…]
CDC changing COVID-19 surveillance when public health emergency ends
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday it is changing the way it does surveillance of COVID-19 in the United States as the emergencies related to the virus [Read More…]
Public health leaders warn dwindling COVID data risks less preparation for ‘the next outbreak’
TAMI CHAPPELL/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While COVID-19 ebbs — and many of the pandemic-era policies on surveillance data and funding wind down with it — the nation’s public health leaders warned senators [Read More…]
FDA considers whether a birth control pill could be sold over the counter
Courtesy of Angela Maske (WASHINGTON) — Angela Maske was a college freshman in Washington, D.C., when she first had trouble getting a prescription for birth control pills. Her Catholic-affiliated university wouldn’t prescribe the medication to [Read More…]
COVID vaccine effectiveness against omicron fell to 20% after six months but protection against severe disease still strong: Study
Images By Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against omicron infection fell to less than 20% after six months, according to a new analysis published Wednesday. Researchers from Italy and the [Read More…]
Maria Menounos diagnosis puts spotlight on pancreatic cancer
Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — TV personality Maria Menounos is opening up about a recent health scare, revealing details of a private battle with pancreatic cancer. Menounos, 44, told People magazine she began experiencing [Read More…]
How to protect kids from the negative impacts of diet culture
Virginia Sole-Smith/Instagram (NEW YORK) — Children are often exposed to diet culture from a young age and its negative impacts can be long-lasting, according to author Virginia Sole-Smith. Sole-Smith is the author of a new [Read More…]
1st RSV vaccine for older adults in US cleared by FDA in historic approval
Xinhua via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first RSV vaccine in the U.S. Scientists have been trying to develop an RSV vaccine for decades after previous high-profile [Read More…]
Fentanyl overdose deaths surged 279% since 2016 while heroin deaths fell: CDC
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The rate of drug overdose deaths linked to fentanyl in the United States has skyrocketed over the last five years, new federal data showed. The rate of overdose deaths [Read More…]
Future doctors say they’re discouraged from working in states with abortion bans
ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Lucy Brown, a medical student at Indiana University, wanted to stay in Indiana for her OB-GYN residency, but when Roe v. Wade was overturned last June, her priorities shifted. [Read More…]