Opinion | Extend Landmark PEPFAR Program Now
Daschle and Frist are former Senate majority leaders. In 2003, the two of us led opposing political parties in the U.S. Senate. Despite our differences, we joined together to support President George W. Bush in authorizing the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) at a time when the global AIDS crisis was spiraling […]
Take Risk Into Account Before Repeat Surveillance Colonoscopy, Study Says
A majority of older adults undergoing surveillance colonoscopy were invited to return for a subsequent colonoscopy, even when no significant polyps were detected and they had a limited life expectancy, a study using Medicare claims data found. Of nearly 10,000 adults 65 and up undergoing surveillance colonoscopy due to a prior polyp, colonoscopy turned up […]
Short-Course Apalutamide to Reduce Active Surveillance Attrition in Prostate Cancer
A majority of men in active surveillance (AS) for early prostate cancer had negative biopsies after a 90-day course of apalutamide (Erleada), a small phase II trial showed. Follow-up pathology showed no evidence of residual cancer in 13 of 22 evaluable patients following treatment with the androgen receptor inhibitor. The median time to a positive […]
Hepatitis A Demographics Shift Dramatically
Hepatitis A is no longer mainly a travel and food-related infection, as the majority of infections from 2016 to 2020 related to drug use or homelessness, according to the CDC. Fully 56% of hepatitis A infected persons in the U.S. were using drugs (injected or not), 14% were homeless, and 12% were recently incarcerated in […]
Experts Predict If And When COVID Will Become A Seasonal Illness
The vast majority of respiratory viruses that spread within our population ebb and flow with the seasons. Influenza spikes in the winter months, as do infections caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), adenoviruses and other coronaviruses. Earlier this year, Rochelle Walensky, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, said she expects COVID to also […]
Nearly All Transgender Kids Stick With New Identity 5 Years Later
In the years following their social transition, the vast majority of young transgender children continued to identify as such, a longitudinal study found. Among 317 transgender children, only 7.3% altered their gender identification — or retransitioned — during a 5-year period, according to researchers led by Kristina Olson, PhD, of Princeton University in New Jersey. […]
Reproductive Justice Groups Frustrated By Democrats’ Modified Bill To Codify Roe
Late Tuesday night, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) filed an updated version of the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade into federal law. The move is a last-minute attempt to protect abortion rights in the wake of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that revealed the high court […]
Most older adults want to ‘age in place’ but many haven’t taken steps to help them do so: From home safety and accessibility, to social support, community services and paid in-home help, National Poll on Healthy Aging shows varied preparation
The vast majority of people over 50 say it’s important that they keep living in their current homes for as long as possible. But a new poll shows many of them haven’t planned or prepared for “aging in place,” and a sizable percentage might have a hard time paying for in-home help. The pandemic’s toll […]
Why are people with allergic asthma less susceptible to severe COVID?
The vast majority of people infected with the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 experience mild cold-like symptoms, moderate flu-like symptoms, or no symptoms at all, but the virus is so transmissible that it still spread deep into lung tissue to cause severe disease and death in thousands of people in the United States in 2022 alone. […]
Third COVID Vaccine Dose Could Be the Last
As the Biden administration prepares to recommend booster shots for the majority of Americans, some experts are saying the third dose could be the final one. But what evidence leads them to believe that COVID-19 can be defeated by a three-dose series? For starters, a longer duration between the second and third dose may provide […]