Australia’s public health system is at risk of “coming to a grinding halt” due to an unprecedented shortage of intravenous fluids. The Australian Medical Association has warned of a need to boost onshore medical manufacturing, saying hospital surgeries could be cancelled as soon as next week. Veterinarians have also been told to conserve supplies. Know … Read more
It’s possible that tirzepatide is slightly more effective because it’s a dual receptor agonist. In addition to GLP-1, it also activates receptors of GIP, another hormone involved in regulating blood sugar and appetite. But McGuire says GIP isn’t well understood, and it’s not clear whether the addition of GIP is driving the increased weight loss … Read more
“If one of those computers is affected, suddenly all of your sterilization procedures have to slow down or even stop, and then operations stop,” he says. With large healthcare systems employing thousands of personnel and looking after vast numbers of patients—last year Michigan Medicine had more than 2.7 million outpatient visits—modern healthcare has become reliant … Read more
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Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have both recently taken legal action against companies selling compounded versions of drugs, often alleging trademark infringement. Novo Nordisk has filed 21 lawsuits since last summer. This June, Eli Lilly initiated six lawsuits, following ten other lawsuits that the pharmaceutical company began last fall. In one, filed against a company … Read more
General practitioners willing to move to remote and rural Tasmania for work will be offered a $100,000 settlement allowance over five years as part of a $4 million state government rural health initiative. It will also wipe HECS debts up to $100,000 — the average student debt racked up by GPs — for doctors willing … Read more
In 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration made an unprecedented recommendation, advising that women should receive a lower dosage of the insomnia drug zolpidem than men. The rationale behind it was that medication seemed to affect women for longer periods, which could become a safety issue. However, in 2019, research conducted at Tufts University … Read more
It’s not clear why some people on these drugs lose a lot of weight while others don’t lose any. “We still don’t understand most of the variation in response,” says Ewan Pearson, professor of diabetic medicine at the University of Dundee in Scotland. There are a few known predictors of how patients will fare, though. … Read more
Pru Gibson spent roughly 24 years of her life suffering debilitating symptoms that were dismissed by doctors, as she desperately searched for answers. By 40, she’d had enough and insisted on a uterine hysterectomy. What should have been a simple surgery turned into a five-and-a-half-hour operation and confirmation of a condition, she says, she knew … Read more
In late March, a smoke shop in Dyersburg, Tennessee, announced the arrival of a new product in its store: a disposable nicotine vape with an LCD display that can be connected to a smartphone via Bluetooth. Marketed under the brand name RAMA, the strawberry- and kiwi-flavored vape looks more like a cell phone from the … Read more
“The statistics are frightening: Dementia is the biggest killer in the UK. It has been the leading cause of death for women since 2011,” says Hilary Evans, CEO of Alzheimer’s Research UK and cochair of the UK Dementia Mission. “One in two of us will be affected by dementia either by caring for someone with … Read more
