Supreme Court Extends Stay on Abortion Pill Ruling
The Supreme Court extended a hold on a lower-court ruling on mifepristone until Friday, meaning the drug will remain broadly available for now. On Wednesday afternoon, hours before the stay on the lower-court ruling was expected to be lifted, Justice Samuel Alito extended the pause through Friday evening. Had the Supreme Court not extended the […]
Evusheld No Longer Authorized for COVID Prevention
Tixagevimab-cilgavimab (Evusheld) lost authorization for use in the U.S. to prevent COVID-19 until further notice, the FDA announced on Thursday. The agency revised the monoclonal antibody cocktail’s emergency use authorization (EUA) to limit its use to only periods when SARS-CoV-2 variants susceptible to it account for at least 9% of COVID-19 cases nationally. “Data show […]
Her Mom Went To Prison When She Was 13. Here’s How It Affected Her Ability To Trust Other Women.
Until she was 21, Ariana Steen cried herself to sleep every night, terrorized by the thought of her mom being killed in prison. It’s a fear that permeated her psyche throughout her young adulthood; her mother was incarcerated when Steen was just 13. Steen, now a 24-year-old living in Seattle, was primarily raised by her […]
Opinion | We’re Reacting to Medical Errors the Wrong Way
Medical mistakes are as old as the practice of medicine itself, but it wasn’t until 1999 that the United States started paying more attention to them. Over 20 years later, we may be reducing medical errors — a recent study published in JAMA found significant decreases in mistakes in cases of pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction, […]
Are Antiviral Drugs Effective Against Monkeypox? – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News By Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 Up until recently monkeypox infection outside of Africa was rare, but a look back at seven cases occurring in Britain over the past few years gives hints at what drugs work to fight the disease — and which don’t. The need to […]
New optical tweezers put on the pressure to change color
One big stumbling block in the field of photonics is that of color control. Until now, to control color, i.e. the wavelength of light emission, researchers would have to alter the chemical structure of the emitter or the concentration of the solvent — all of which require direct contact, greatly limiting their application. “Such conditions […]