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Left untreated, seizure clusters can increase the risk of physical injury, neurological damage, prolonged seizures, and status epilepticus, according to UCB, and many diagnosed patients with may go untreated when preferred treatment options are unavailable.

Pfizer’s application for dalteparin sodium was given Priority Review status, according to the FDA, due to a need that was unmet.

Researchers with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the CDC found higher number of concussion symptoms and long recoveries predict risk of another concussion.

Offering retreatment and counseling at every step increases the abstinence levels in patients who take multiple attempts to quit smoking,

The PANORAMA trial showed that by 1 year, 20% of untreated patients developed proliferative diabetic eye disease, and aflibercept injection reduced this risk by 85% to 88% when administered using an every 16-week or eight-week dosing regimen, respectively.

A 2014 study found that 97% of allergists surveyed believed a pest-free home was an important step in preventing asthma and allergy symptoms.

The Public Access to SunScreens (PASS) Coalition wants to reiterate the importance of sunscreen in reducing the risk of melanoma, other skin cancers, and premature aging.

Sandoz is working to make its epinephrine 0.3 mg and 0.15 injections available to the retail market, which would enable individuals to obtain this medicine at local pharmacies.

With approximately 18,100 PNPS and 50,000 primary care pediatricians currently in the workforce, there are insufficient numbers of pediatric primary care providers to care for the increasingly demanding and complex needs of children.

Despite the goal to ensure more opportunities for nurse innovators at the leadership level by 2025, the study has revealed that there is currently a lack of nurse innovators in these positions.

According to the results, tafamidis meglumine significantly reduced the hierarchical combination of all-cause mortality and frequency of cardiovascular-related hospitalizations compared with a placebo over a 30-month period.

Many nurses are using the national week of recognition to bring to light the working conditions that many of them endure on a daily basis.

A molecular switch in the skin cells may cause increased susceptibility to autoimmunity in women.

The drug application was granted the FDA’s Priority Review designation, as well as a Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher under a program intended to encourage development of new drugs and biologics for the prevention and treatment of certain tropical diseases.

The new point-of-care, portable blood test is set to assist in the assessment of brain injury, right by the patient’s side with objectivity and speed.

The CDC has estimated that there are 23,000 to 46,000 children in the US with HCV infection.

The message was issued today, during National Infant Immunization Week.

A clinical trial has demonstrated that Novo Nordisk’s liraglutide (Victoza) injection significantly reduced blood sugar in children and adolescents aged 10-17 years with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

High levels of ‘bad’ cholesterol, also known as low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), increase patients' risk for serious CV events such as heart attack or stroke. Adults who experience a heart attack or stroke have an approximately 1 in t3 chance to have another CV event.

This is the first time that the FDA has approved a treatment for pediatric patients with SLE. Belimumab has been approved for use in adult patients since 2011. GSK’s application for belimumab use in pediatric patients was granted the FDA’s Priority Review designation.

Thousands of locations across the United States will be serve as sites for patients to visit and dispose of their unwanted medications in order to protect individuals from misuse and potential overdose.

This recall was initiated by detection of an impurity – N-Nitroso-N-methyl-4-aminobutyric acid (NMBA) – found in 6 lots of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufactured by Hetero Labs Limited that is above the FDA’s interim acceptable exposure limit of 9.82 ppm.

Nalmefene HCl has a longer duration of action than naloxone, another opioid antagonist currently approved for emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose.

Senator Maureen Walsh made a statement about nurses playing cards all day, which caused a massive reaction among hardworking health care professionals everywhere.

The decline in precancerous cervical lesions is most likely due to HPV vaccination and updated cervical cancer screening recommendations.

This approval marks the first generic naloxone nasal spray for use in a community setting by an individual without medical training.

Investigators from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) used data from participants of the Veteran’s Aging Cohort Study to compare the risk of death among US veterans who were depressed to those not suffering from depression.

The commercial availability of Bijuva offers an FDA approved alternative to marketed synthetic hormones or individual estrogen and progesterone products that have not been FDA-approved for combination use.

Reducing one’s exposure to bug bites is crucial, since many the diseases spread by such bites cannot be prevented or treated with vaccines or medicine.

Kratom is currently not federally scheduled as a controlled substance, but it is considered a drug of concern.