Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. With the Omicron variant of the coronavirus blazing across the United States, President Joe Biden offered reassurance on Tuesday to Americans who have followed public health guidance to get vaccinated and boosted, and delivered a stark warning to those who haven’t.
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Doctors should prescribe fewer antidepressants and for shorter periods of time, because of the ongoing uncertainties about their effectiveness and the potential severity and durability of the withdrawal symptoms associated with them, suggests a review of the evidence on antidepressant use, published online in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. The use of antidepressants is also
In this article DAL Delta Air Lines airplanes at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian on Tuesday asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to halve its recommended quarantine time for people
In a recent multinational study published on the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers determine the long-term adverse mental health symptoms associated with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by estimating acute infection severity. Study: Acute COVID-19 severity and 16-month mental morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations. Image Credit: Drazen Zigic / Shutterstock.com Significance of post-COVID mental health
Pairing a novel cytotoxic agent with bevacizumab (Avastin) failed to improve progression-free survival (PFS) versus standard therapy in older patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) ineligible for intensive therapy, a randomized trial showed. Investigator-assessed PFS was 9.4 months with trifluridine/tipiracil (Lonsurf) plus bevacizumab and 9.3 months with capecitabine plus the angiogenesis inhibitor. PFS by blinded
Olivia Bratcher‘s story starts when she was in fifth grade and joined the Girl Scouts. Little did she know, several years later, her Girl Scout Gold Award project would help cancer survivors like her mother and become something she expects to remain passionate about for years to come. Olivia’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer
A melanoma cell. Credit: Dr Erik Sahai. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended the use of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for some adults in England with a type of advanced melanoma skin cancer. The drug will now be routinely available on the NHS to adults with stage 3 melanoma
A scoring criterion which can distinguish between benign and malignant tumors in pediatric patients with renal masses could help determine if they can benefit from partial rather than radical nephrectomy (removal of the kidney), according to new study findings. The RENAL nephrometry score is widely used in cases of adult kidney cancer to determine who
There’s a sort-of unspoken, but widely acknowledged, ‘life path’ we’re all expected to follow – but none of our journeys are exactly the same. Here, we’re exploring the mental health impact of deviating from the predicted ‘life milestones’ course, and how to handle it The word ‘milestone’ is said to date back to the third
The omicron variant is now the most dominant strain of SARS-CoV-2 in the U.S. With this latest development in the ongoing pandemic, many people fear the aftermath of omicron’s sudden and faster takeover than the delta variant. However, experts are also confident that certain treatments can effectively cure the infection caused by the virus. Below
The Food and Drug Administration has announced that women no longer will have to pick up the abortion pill mifepristone (Mifeprex) in person at certain certified sites and can get a prescription via an online consultation and delivery through the mail. In April 2021, the FDA lifted the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone for the duration of the
The protein UBR7 acts as a histone chaperone, regulating histone re-deposition at specific sites during DNA replication, according a recent study published in The EMBO Journal. This protein was previously identified to regulate nucleotide metabolism, making UBR7 among the first proteins known to affect both processes, according to Daniel Foltz, PhD, associate professor of Biochemistry
People wait in long lines in Times Square to get tested for Covid-19 on December 20, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The rapidly spreading omicron variant is now the dominant Covid strain in the U.S., representing 73% of sequenced cases, according to data published Monday by the Centers for Disease
A new study found that changes in specific genes may contribute each year to the roughly 400 sudden unexplained deaths in children (SUDC) aged 1 year and older—and separately from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Children younger than 1 year old who die suddenly are diagnosed with SIDS, and older children with SUDC. But the
The FDA approved the only biologic for severe asthma without any phenotype or biomarker limitations, manufacturers AstraZeneca and Amgen announced Friday. The first-in-class biologic tezepelumab-ekko (Tezspire) is indicated as an add-on maintenance treatment for patients ages 12 and older with severe asthma. It is not intended for acute bronchospasm or status asthmaticus. As a first-in-class
I think we thought we saw this coming. And I think we tried to warn everybody. Approaching 2 years into the pandemic, with hundreds of thousands of lives lost and millions sickened, it feels like we’re no closer to an effective public health system prepared to handle what comes next, instead of reacting to things
Wendy Dean is a Queensland resident and a mother of two. She was 45 years old when a phone call from her doctor first turned her world upside down, just as she was getting ready to leave work one day to pick up her daughter from school. The call was one no one ever wants
The CDC announced Friday that students who are exposed to the coronavirus can still attend school as long as they continue to test negative for the virus in the following days. The new guidance, known as the “test-to-stay” protocol, would reduce the number of children who are expected to stay home as a close contact