Opinion | Abortion Is Not Murder in the Eyes of the Law
Recently, the Utah House of Representatives passed a bill that would have allowed pregnant women to use the high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane. The Utah Senate rejected this bill. HOV lanes are intended to reduce traffic congestion and help the environment. They have no further ambition. Bills like this are really attempts to imbue a fetus […]
FDA Panel Supports Tofersen for Rare Genetic ALS
A panel of FDA advisors voted unanimously that plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL), a biomarker of neurodegeneration, is a reasonable surrogate endpoint in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) associated with a mutation in the SOD1 gene (SOD1-ALS). In a 9-0 vote on Wednesday, the agency’s Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee said the available […]
Opinion | ‘It Is a Horrifying Prospect’: What We Heard This Week
“It is a horrifying prospect that many more individuals could die because they will be forced to remain pregnant against their will.” — Jen Villavicencio, MD, of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, on how maternal mortality in the U.S. will likely be impacted by the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. “Besides […]
Match Day 2023: Five Debt Management Tips for New Doctors
Match Day is an exciting yet stressful time for new doctors. One of the more stressful things is that you’re now transitioning from a debt accumulation stage to a sort of stalled-out debt payment stage. This is really the first time young doctors need to start planning and thinking about their debt. Here are some […]
CDC, FDA Heads Fire Back at Ladapo Letter
The heads of the FDA and CDC sent a scathing 4-page letter to Florida’s Surgeon General warning him that his stance on COVID-19 vaccines is “harmful.” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, responded to a letter sent to them last month by Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, […]
Why Does Insulin Cost So Much? Big Pharma Isn’t the Only Player Driving Prices
Eli Lilly & Co.’s announcement that it is slashing prices for its major insulin products could make life easier for some diabetes patients while easing pressure on Big Pharma. It also casts light on the profiteering methods of the drug industry’s price mediators — the pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — at a time when Congress […]
Baseball: The Safest Sport for High School Athletes?
LAS VEGAS — Annual surveys of high school athletic trainers show that, among nine major sports, boys’ football has the highest injury rate and baseball the lowest, researchers reported here. But when ranked by severity, boys’ wrestling was the most dangerous, with 9.6% of injuries sustained in the sport needing surgery, according to a study […]
Olive oil by-product could aid exercise: Research is first to examine exercise benefits from drinking olive fruit water
New research has found that a natural by-product of olive oil production could potentially have antioxidant benefits and support exercise. The study, led by nutrition researchers at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and published in the journal Nutrients, is the first to examine the benefits of natural olive fruit water for recreationally active people. Olive fruit […]
Assessing the risk of excess folic acid intake
It is well established that folic acid supplementation can significantly reduce the risk of birth defects, including neural tube defects like spina bifida, the most common birth defect of the central nervous system and the second most common of all structural birth defects. More than 80 nations, including the U.S. 25 years ago, have established […]
Reclaiming the Health Misinformation Spiral on Social Media
As medical students and future pediatricians, we recognize that childhood vaccines are one of the single greatest public health achievements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Yet, for one of us, a pregnant cousin announced over the Thanksgiving dinner table that she wasn’t going to vaccinate her unborn child. No matter the facts, research, or […]