When a Texas district judge ruled on Apr. 7 that mifepristone, a drug for inducing abortion, should have its approval suspended—decades after it was granted—the decision didn’t just threaten abortion access. It raised deeper questions about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s authority and the separation of its regulatory powers from judicial oversight. “The … Read more
A lot of people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have trouble sleeping. By some estimates, roughly 75% of people with IBD experience sleep disturbances such as trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep, and poor overall sleep quality. Meanwhile, surveys of IBD patients have found that poor sleep tends to be the top contributor to quality-of-life … Read more
In the six months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there were 5,377 fewer abortions on average per month, according to a new report. The average number of terminations from July through December was 77,073, a 7% drop from the average in April and May, according to a Tuesday report from the … Read more
Cases of major sexually transmitted infections rose to more than 2.5 million in 2021, U.S. health officials said in a revised final report, led by rates of syphilis that increased more than a third from a year earlier. Rates of syphilis rose about 32% in 2021, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had … Read more
In the early days of my medical residency, I met a man whom we’ll call Jason. He arrived to our emergency room on a holiday, nonchalant yet amiable, and complained of mild chest pain. Jason was tall and trim, with a strong South Boston accent and fingertips still faintly stained from his last home-improvement project. … Read more
The preliminary ruling from Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk adopts the terminology of anti-abortion groups, such as “chemical abortion,” “abortionist” and “unborn human.” View original article Contributor: Charlie Savage and Pam Belluck
Dr. Joshua Lampert misses his mom more than usual when May comes around. Adele Lynn Lampert died in March 2020 at 68. She battled for over a decade with metastatic … Click to Continue » View original article Contributor:
While researchers are divided over whether more people should have automated external defibrillators at home, those who have used one have no doubts. View original article Contributor: Gina Kolata
WASHINGTON — The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. The national emergency allowed the government to take sweeping … Read more
On Apr. 7, just before the holiday weekend, a federal judge in Texas delivered a long-awaited ruling with an unprecedented (and, to health experts, baseless) conclusion: that mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all abortions performed in the U.S., had not been properly approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) … Read more