Critics say pandemic treaty text is ‘step backwards’
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As negotiations towards a new pandemic treaty pick up pace, observers warn of watered-down efforts to ensure equitable access to the medical products needed to battle…
Vulvovaginal symptoms common during penicillin course, finds research
Chemical structure of Penicillin G. The sulfur and nitrogen of the five-membered thiazolidine ring are shown in yellow and blue respectively. The image shows that the thiazolidine ring and fused…
Low-flavanol diet drives age-related memory loss, large study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A large-scale study led by researchers at Columbia and Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard is the first to establish that a diet low in flavanols—nutrients found in…
Treatment cost analysis highlights systemic health inequities faced by persons with
Credit: National Institutes of Health A new distributional cost-effectiveness analysis of gene therapy versus standard-of-care for sickle cell disease (SCD) found that while gene therapy is cost-ineffective by conventional measures,…
Low dose colchicine associated with lower incidence of total knee and hip
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An exploratory analysis of the LoDoCo2 (Low-Dose Colchicine 2) randomized, controlled, double-blind trial found that daily therapy with a low dose of colchicine was associated with…
Research suggests no difference in health outcomes, care costs for patients treated
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain 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…