The hope is that a loan repayment program, which would offer up to $50,000 a year for up to three years, could be enough to attract more people to the infectious disease field.
Ayla, now a healthy 16 months old, shows that treating genetic diseases in fetuses may be able to stave off the damage that would otherwise accrue even before a baby is born.
New CDC guidelines on opioid prescribing say that people with pain need individualized care, and that prescribers need to calibrate opioid doses and timeframes to meet a patient’s needs.
“Even if someone is having trouble retrieving words or names, a person’s intelligence can still be intact,” an expert noted after the Fetterman-Oz debate.
Patients and their families said that even if lecanemab can’t avert further decline from Alzheimer’s, delaying it for even just a little bit would provide real benefits.
The World Health Organization has renamed the two branches of the monkeypox virus, moving away from identifying them with geographic titles and instead giving them Roman numerals.