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Robert Guimento Is the New Interim CEO of HIV Service Provider GMHC
New York City HIV and AIDS service provider GMHC announced that Robert Guimento is its new interim CEO. Guimento recently served as president of the New York Presbyterian (NYP) Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and has led several other hospitals, outpatient clinics, medical staff and related health care teams. “GMHC’s board of...
“Get a Pulse on PAD” Campaign Encourages Conversations About Peripheral Artery Disease
Approximately 70% of Americans do not know about peripheral artery disease (PAD), the most common vascular disease that contributes to 400 amputations performed each day in the country, according to a new national survey by the PAD Pulse Alliance. To educate patients and provide resources to start the conversation, the...
Tools Underestimate Cardiovascular Event Risk in People with HIV
The elevated cardiovascular disease risk among people with HIV is even greater than predicted by a standard risk calculator in several groups, including Black people and cisgender women, according to analyses from a large international clinical trial primarily funded by the National institutes of Health and presented at the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Denver. The risk of having a first major cardiovascular event was also higher than previously predicted for people from high-income regions and those whose HIV replication was not suppressed below detectable levels.
With Medical Debt Burdening Millions, a Financial Regulator Steps In to Help
When President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he said the new agency had one priority: “looking out for people, not big banks, not lenders, not investment houses.”. Since then, the CFPB has done its share of policing mortgage brokers, student loan...
Hepatitis C Treatment Can Improve Liver Function in People With Decompensated Cirrhosis
Free and easy access to direct-acting antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C led to a high cure rate for people with decompensated liver cirrhosis in the Punjab region of India, researchers reported at the AASLD Liver Meeting. What’s more, a quarter of those who received treatment had restored liver function.
Antibody Reduces Allergic Reactions to Multiple Foods in NIH Clinical Trial
A 16-week course of a monoclonal antibody, omalizumab, increased the amount of peanut, tree nuts, egg, milk and wheat that multi-food allergic children as young as 1 year could consume without an allergic reaction in a late-stage clinical trial. Nearly 67% of participants who completed the antibody treatment could consume...
One in Eight People Are Now Living With Obesity
New study released by the Lancet shows that, in 2022, more than 1 billion people in the world are now living with obesity. Worldwide, obesity among adults has more than doubled since 1990, and has quadrupled among children and adolescents (5 to 19 years of age). The data also show that 43% of adults were overweight in 2022.
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Effective Oral HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Use in Cisgender Women
What do we know about oral pre-exposure prophylaxis in cisgender women?. Pivotal studies supported by NIAID demonstrated that oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) reduces an individual’s likelihood of acquiring HIV through sex by up to 99% when taken as prescribed. Since the release of those findings, 69 countries have approved HIV PrEP products, and an estimated 5.6 million people have initiated PrEP worldwide.
CDC Updates and Simplifies Respiratory Virus Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released today updated recommendations for how people can protect themselves and their communities from respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. The new guidance brings a unified approach to addressing risks from a range of common respiratory viral illnesses, such as COVID-19, flu, and RSV, which can cause significant health impacts and strain on hospitals and health care workers. CDC is making updates to the recommendations now because the U.S. is seeing far fewer hospitalizations and deaths associated with COVID-19 and because we have more tools than ever to combat flu, COVID, and RSV.
Governments Can Erase Your Medical Debt for Pennies on the Dollar — And Some Are
Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcies in the United States, and more than 2 in 5 American adults have some. In many cases, the money people owe to health care providers forces them to cut spending on food or utilities, forgo other medical care or take on even more debt. Medical debt can make it impossible to buy a home, pay for college or save for retirement.
Diet Linked to Preeclampsia Risk in Pregnant Latinas
A new study suggests that certain combination of foods consumed during pregnancy may influence likelihood of developing preeclampsia, a serious and sometimes fatal late-pregnancy complication that raises blood pressure and can damage the liver and kidneys. The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association and led by...
Only Half of Veterans with Hepatitis B Cirrhosis Are on Treatment
A little over half of veterans with liver cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis B are receiving antiviral therapy, according to study findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. People who identified as non-Asian, those with heavy alcohol consumption and those living in rural areas had lower treatment rates. Around 2 million...
Over $12M in Grants to Improve HIV Prevention and Care Among Black Women and Girls
A group of organizations dedicated to improving HIV prevention and care for Black girls and women was awarded $12.6 million in grants through a new initiative by pharma giant Gilead Sciences. Setting the P.A.C.E. (Prevention, Arts and Advocacy, Community, Education), a three-year initiative, will support 19 organizations in their efforts...
FDA’s Plan to Ban Hair Relaxer Chemical Called Too Little, Too Late
In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the chemical in hair-straightening products. The move comes at a time of rising alarm among researchers over the health effects of...
Smoking Cannabis Associated With Increased Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke
Frequent cannabis smoking may significantly increase a person’s risk for heart attack and stroke, according to an observational study supported by the National Institutes of Health. The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, uses data from nearly 435,000 American adults, and is among the largest ever to explore the relationship between cannabis and cardiovascular events.
Older Adults Can Now Receive Additional Dose of Updated COVID-19 Vaccine
On February 28, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation for adults ages 65 years and older to receive an additional updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine dose. The recommendation acknowledges the increased risk of severe disease from COVID-19 in older adults, along with the currently available data on vaccine effectiveness.
People With Incarceration History Less Likely to Receive Health Care, Including Cancer Screening
A new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows people with an incarceration history had worse access to and receipt of health care, including physical exams, blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol tests, as well as dental check-ups and breast and colorectal cancer screenings compared with people without incarceration history in the United States. The findings are published February 23 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Health Forum.
U.S. HIV Guidelines Recommend Statins to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has updated its antiretroviral treatment guidelines to recommend statins for people living with HIV who are ages 40 to 75 and have a low to intermediate risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The updated guidance is supported by findings from the REPRIEVE trial,...
Ketamine Therapy for Mental Health a ‘Wild West’ for Doctors and Patients
In late 2022, Sarah Gutilla’s treatment-resistant depression had grown so severe, she was actively contemplating suicide. Raised in foster care, the 34-year-old’s childhood was marked by physical violence, sexual abuse, and drug use, leaving her with life-threatening mental scars. Out of desperation, her husband scraped together $600 for...
SARS-CoV-2 Fragments May Cause Problems After Infection
Most COVID-19 cases are mild, but many still lead to life-threatening complications. Severe cases feature an overactive immune response that causes dangerous inflammation. This inflammation affects many different tissues and cell types, including uninfected ones, and resembles that seen in some autoimmune diseases. It’s not clear why SARS-CoV-2 can cause such inflammation while other coronaviruses responsible for common colds don’t.
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