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    Disease

    FDA proposes draft guidance for the blood industry

    Erin Brady
    Jan. 16, 2025
    This revised guidance is for organizations that collect blood.
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    Disease

    CDC announces first bird flu death

    Erin Brady
    Jan. 7, 2025
    This is the first known death from this disease in the United States.
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    Cancer

    Any alcohol consumption raises cancer risk

    Erin Brady
    Jan. 6, 2025
    New United States Surgeon General advisory.
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    Diabetes

    First generic of once-daily GLP-1 injection to lower blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes approved by the FDA

    LABline
    Jan. 6, 2025
    The FDA granted the approval of generic liraglutide injection to Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.
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    Disease

    Alternative to opioids in people with dialysis-dependent kidney failure

    Erin Brady
    Jan. 3, 2025
    Study shows this option can improve these patients’ quality of life.
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    Disease

    NIH’s H5N1 risk assessment

    Erin Brady
    Jan. 2, 2025
    Threat still low, but experts advise caution.
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    Infectious Disease

    New study results could lead to lower COVID mortality

    LABline
    Dec. 26, 2024
    The study was published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
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    Disease

    COVID-19 does not worsen MS symptoms

    Erin Brady
    Dec. 23, 2024
    A new study published in Neurology.
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    Infectious Disease

    Cases of respiratory illnesses like walking pneumonia and whooping cough are surging. Why?

    Meghan W. Starolis, MS, PhD, HCLD(ABB)
    Dec. 23, 2024
    Since last spring, the number of infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a bacterial cause of ‘walking pneumonia,’ has been increasing. The U.S. Centers for Disease...

    Disease

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    Courtesy of NIAID, NIH
    Colorized transmission electron micrograph of two particles of the virus that causes mpox, cultivated and purified from cell culture. NIAID.
    Courtesy of NIAID and CDC, NIH
    H5N1 avian influenza particles (rod-shaped; orange) NIAID and CDC.