Surgery
Tonsillectomy both cost- and clinically effective for adults, finds study
Scientists say tonsil removal is both cost- and clinically effective for adults who get recurrent severe sore throats.
May 17, 2023
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Medical economics
Health experts in Nigeria call for new president to prioritize health care and refrain from politicizing it
Health experts in Nigeria say the country's president-elect, who will be inaugurated on 29 May, must focus on health care. During the election campaign, incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress ...
May 25, 2023
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Medical economics
Air pollution from oil and gas production responsible for $77 billion in annual US health damages, study finds
Despite global efforts to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, oil and gas (O&G) production is nearing record levels in the United States, posing concern among health experts about what this O&G growth means for ...
May 8, 2023
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Medications
Investigation raises questions over lack of 'substantial evidence' for FDA approved antibiotic
Drugs approved in the US require "substantial evidence" that they are effective. But an investigation by The BMJ into the recent approval of the antibiotic Recarbrio from Merck suggests that these standards are being bypassed.
May 15, 2023
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Cardiology
Research shows that the bottom has been reached in restrictive blood transfusion policy
The trend in hospitals and guidelines is to be increasingly cautious with blood transfusions. Due to side effects associated with blood transfusion and the increasing scarcity and costs of blood products. For example, in ...
May 24, 2023
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Medications
A sharp increase in the price of gout drug colchicine led to lower use and poorer disease control, research suggests
Due to a policy decision in 2010 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the price of a prescription for the therapeutic gout drug colchicine increased nearly 16-fold from $11.25 in 2009 to $190.49 in 2011. Out-of-pocket ...
May 8, 2023
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Medications
PBMs, the brokers who control drug prices, finally get Washington's attention
For two decades, patients and physicians eagerly awaited a lower-cost version of the world's bestselling drug, Humira, while its maker, AbbVie, fought off potential competitors by building a wall of more than 250 patents ...
May 15, 2023
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HIV & AIDS
Study finds strong interest in injectable PrEP for understudied Malaysian population
Researchers in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources recently conducted a novel study assessing knowledge of and interest in a new injectable form of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) among men who have sex ...
May 22, 2023
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Medical economics
COVID-19: Institutional politics was crucial to success of vaccine technology transfer in Brazil
When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic in March 2020, laboratories and pharmaceutical companies were already developing vaccines, and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), an arm of ...
May 8, 2023
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Health
Research suggests no difference in health outcomes, care costs for patients treated by traditional MDs or osteopaths
New UCLA-led research suggests that patient mortality rates, readmissions, length of stay, and health care spending were virtually identical for elderly hospitalized patients who were treated by physicians with Doctor of ...
May 29, 2023
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