Ozanimod Controls MS Disease Activity Regardless of Age
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Clinical and radiologic measures of disease activity remained stable or improved for relapsing multiple sclerosis (RMS) patients in all age groups over 7 to 8 years of continuous treatment with ozanimod (Zeposia). “Regardless of age category, the adjusted annualized relapse rate was below 0.2 in the phase III parent trials […]
Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Plus Nitrates Still a Losing Combination, Study Shows
As expected, men taking nitrates for stable coronary artery disease (CAD) fared poorly if they added certain erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs to their medicine cabinet, a Swedish population-based study found. Compared with nitrate users not on phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitor treatment for ED, those who had both types of drugs in their medication history tended to […]
Biden Administration Announces Actions to Strengthen the Drug Supply Chain
The U.S. must keep the supply chain for drugs and other commodities “stable and secure in the long term to keep preserving a little bit of breathing room for American families,” President Biden said Monday. Fortunately, the administration is making progress, the president noted in a press conference held in the Indian Treaty Room at […]
High-Sensitivity Troponin Test May Overestimate Risk in PE
For patients with hemodynamically stable pulmonary embolism (PE), there was no prognostic value found for the mild elevations in cardiac troponin captured only on high-sensitivity assays at the emergency room, based on an exploratory analysis of the PROTECT cohort study. Whereas a finding of conventional cardiac troponin I (cTnI) elevation was associated with a complicated […]
High-Sensitivity Troponin Test May Overestimate Risk in PE
For patients with hemodynamically stable pulmonary embolism (PE), there was no prognostic value found for the mild elevations in cardiac troponin captured only on high-sensitivity assays at the emergency room, based on an exploratory analysis of the PROTECT cohort study. Whereas a finding of conventional cardiac troponin I (cTnI) elevation was associated with a complicated […]
Opinion | ‘Medicine Is Not a Stable Thing’: What We Heard This Week
“You’ve got to remember that medicine is not a stable thing.” — Dev GnanaDev, MD, former president of the Medical Board of California, discussing a bill that would grant the state’s licensing agencies specific authority to take disciplinary action against disinformation doctors. “This is the American Medical Association, not the American Hunting Association or the […]
Health Insurance Coverage Stable in 2020, Despite Pandemic
Rates of health insurance coverage remained mostly stable during the pandemic, with an estimated 1.6 million more Americans gaining coverage in 2020, according to an early release from the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). From 2019 to 2020, the uninsured rate dropped from an estimated 10.3% (33.2 million) to 9.7% (31.6 million), a non-significant […]