Feb 25, 2022
A new injection is approved for opioid overdose; The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices releases vaccine schedules; The FDA provides a list of approved COVID-19 tests; A trial of an investigational spontaneous urticaria treatment is stopped; And the first condom is authorized for anal intercourse.
Feb 18, 2022
This week in COVID related news, a heartburn medication shows benefit in patients; Bebtelovimab is authroized; Veklury is shown to retain antiviral activity against variants. Away from COVID, a functionally scored carbidopa/levodopa tablet is now available for Parkinson disease, and the FDA issue a ketamine compounding...
Feb 11, 2022
This week: news of millions of courses of a COVID-19 oral antiviral being provided to the US government for distribution throughout the country; There’s a draft guidance for novel nonopioid analgesics; Possible strangulation warning for enteral feeding tubes; A new treatment has been approved for cold agglutinin...
Feb 3, 2022
This week: The approval of a
second COVID-19 vaccine; Pfizer and BioNTech submit for Emergency
use of their vaccine for children under 5; Pfizer have also stopped
development on a potential drug treatment to reduce cardiovascular
risk and severe hypertriglyceridemia; And new dosing options for a
HIV drug.