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email article The FDA approved the first long-acting injectable therapy for people living with HIV, the agency said late Thursday. Injectable cabotegravir-rilpivirine (Cabenuva) was approved for people with HIV who are virologically suppressed on a stable antiviral regimen with no history of treatment failure. It is administered once a month. "Having this treatment available for some patients provides an alternative for managing this chronic condition," John Farley, MD, director of the Of...

Signs executive order on masks, moves on promise that U.S. will rejoin WHO

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Vinay Prasad says it's probably safe

This is one-half of a point/counterpoint pair of articles regarding the need for infection-control precautions by people whove received their full COVID-19 vaccinations. Here, David Aronoff, MD, argues that now is not the time to lower our guard, vaccinated or not. Click here for the viewpoint from Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, who says relaxing some restrictions after vaccination will be OK. The COVID-19 pandemic has now raged on for more than a year. In the U.S., we have documented more than 24.5 m...

email article The Trump administration announced it will stop withholding portions of its COVID-19 vaccine supply for second doses, and instead free up all available doses so that states can vaccinate people ages 65 and over, as well as adults under 65 with comorbid conditions. "Were telling states today that they should open vaccinations to all of their most vulnerable people. That is the most effective way to save lives now," said Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary ...

email article Even without studies to guide them, pregnant physicians are moving ahead with COVID-19 vaccination because they say the benefits outweigh any potential risks. Hilary Shapiro, MD, chief cardiology fellow at the University of California Los Angeles, tweeted that she got her shot at 30 weeks after "lots of reading and discussing with my doctors." Denise Vilchez Cardenal, MD, of Ob Hospitalist Group and St. Lucie Medical Center in Florida, got hers at 31 weeks. She said she had ...

Greater desirability equals greater addictive potential

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