Inhalers, pills or injections help most people control their asthma, but some with severe disease opt for cutting-edge surgery that "remodels" their airways to improve their breathing.
Mar 18, 2022
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Katherine Stewart, 16, must take six to 10 insulin shots a day to properly manage her type 1 diabetes.
Mar 14, 2022
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The antiviral therapies remdesivir, molnupiravir, and the active ingredient in Pfizer's Paxlovid pill (nirmatrelvir), remain effective in laboratory tests against the BA.2 variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Mar 10, 2022
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More than one-quarter of infections in Canada fail to clear up when people are treated with standard antibiotics. This failure occurs because of a phenomenon called antimicrobial resistance (also called AMR), where bacteria ...
Mar 2, 2022
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To help neurologists, patients and their families understand the current evidence on the use of aducanumab to treat Alzheimer's disease, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has issued an evidence-in-focus article, published ...
Feb 23, 2022
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American babies are at far higher risk of dying before their first birthdays than those in almost any other wealthy country. A big reason for those deaths, more than 21,000 each year, is that too many are born too soon.
Feb 21, 2022
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U.S. health officials warned parents on Thursday not to use three popular powdered infant formulas manufactured at an Abbott plant in Michigan that investigators recently linked to bacterial contamination.
Feb 18, 2022
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The drug industry, patient advocates and congressional Republicans have all attacked federal officials' decision to decline routine Medicare coverage for a controversial Alzheimer's drug. They've gone as far as to accuse ...
Feb 17, 2022
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Current treatments for cystic fibrosis are not suitable for all patients. The lack of treatment options is distressing for people suffering from a rare type of this degenerative and life-threatening disease. But researchers ...
Feb 2, 2022
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Health economist Peter Neumann has a proposal for how to rein in the growing costs of prescription drugs.
Jan 28, 2022
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