“Despite there being many great choices of once-daily pill combinations to treat HIV now, there are many patients who will prefer this option of a once-monthly injection,” says David Hirschwerk, MD, a physician who specializes in infectious disease at Northwell Health in Manhasset, New York.
ViiV Healthcare says it will begin shipping Cabenuva to wholesalers and specialty distributors in the United States this month.
Injectable Seen as an Important Advance in HIV Treatment
William Schaffner, MD, an infectious-disease specialist and a professor of preventive medicine and health policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, praises the injectable as another advance in the treatment of HIV infection.
Sharp Drop in Heart Surgeries During the Pandemic
By Ernie Mundell and Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporters
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) There has been a sharp decline in heart surgeries and an increase in heart surgery patient deaths in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say.
An analysis of national data revealed a 53% decrease in all adult heart surgeries, including a 40% decline in non-elective heart surgeries and a 65% drop in elective heart surgeries during the pandemic, compared to 2019.
The study was led by Dr. Tom Nguyen, who directs adult cardiothoracic surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He and his colleagues presented the findings Saturday at the annual meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Such research is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Heart surgeries down by half in U.S. as patients avoid hospitals during pandemic
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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and concerns about catching the coronavirus, researchers say heart patients have avoided hospitals as much as possible. Photo by skeeze/Pixabay
There has been a sharp decline in heart surgeries and an increase in heart surgery patient deaths in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say.
An analysis of national data revealed a 53% decrease in all adult heart surgeries, including a 40% decline in non-elective heart surgeries and a 65% drop in elective heart surgeries during the pandemic, compared to 2019.
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Even if You’ve Had COVID-19 You Still Need the Vaccine 23rd Dec 2020 | Source: Healthline The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) last week for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Cases of reinfection with the virus that causes COVID-19 have been reported. Even if you’ve developed COVID-19, getting the vaccine may help prevent reinfection and lower your risk of getting sick again.
COVID-19 is currently the leading cause of deathTrusted Source in the United States killing more people each day than heart disease or cancer.
To help stem the tide of this life-threatening disease, scientists around the world have been working to develop vaccines.