Month: October 2022

Five months after the Democratic nominee in one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races suffered a stroke, there’s still a lot to learn about his recovery. In the final weeks of the Pennsylvania Senate campaign, a key Republican attack against the state’s lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, has centered on his use of closed-captioning technology, … Read more

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.’s shortage of Adderall is expected to last through March, longer than the two to three months the company said last week, according to U.S. regulators. The popular treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder has been in short supply since at least August, leaving people racing to fill prescriptions and find pharmacies with the … Read more

Pfizer-BioNTech announced that they now have the first human data hinting at how effective the new Omicron booster might be. The updated bivalent vaccine targets both the original SARS-CoV-2 strain and the currently circulating Omicron BA.4/5 variants and is authorized for use in Americans age 12 and older (and soon for ages 5 and older … Read more

Brandon Kapelow is a filmmaker and photographer from Wyoming. He is a suicide-loss survivor and a peer-support facilitator for SOLACE and the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. I was raised in the wilds of western Wyoming and spent my childhood exploring the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, camping in … Read more

She was a young athlete who suffered frequent head injuries. Her family assumed that was the cause of her strange symptoms — then she had a seizure. View original article Contributor: Lisa Sanders, M.D.

The agency cited Teva’s continuing supply problems as well as those of other drug makers struggling to fill the gap. View original article Contributor: Christina Jewett