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Mar
2024
FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee recommended that regulators drop the quadrivalent influenza vaccines used for roughly the past decade or so in favor of a trivalent replacement.
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Feb
New research published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that opioid analgesics elevate the likelihood of falls in all adult patients, but the greatest risk is among individuals aged 85 years and older.
FDA released a safety alert February 21 warning patients about the dangers of smartwatches or smart rings that claim to gauge blood glucose levels without requiring the user to pierce their skin.
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Findings from a new population-based study found that no matter how many doses of bivalent HPV vaccine were administered, no woman who received the HPV bivalent vaccine at age 12 or 13 years developed invasive cancer later.
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According to CDC's recent assessment of the University of Michigan’s Hypertension Pharmacists’ Program (HPP), 66% of patients who consulted with an HPP pharmacist brought their disease under control within 3 months compared with 42% of patients who did not meet with a pharmacist. At 6 months, 69% had their BP under control compared with 56% of nonparticipants.