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Gay Men Should Be Able To Donate Blood, Says American Medical Association
The FDA has banned gay men from donating blood since 1983, however, the American Medical Association has just voted against the ban, saying it is outright discrimination. After the AIDS outbreak nearly three decades ago, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) decided that homosexuals shouldn't be allowed to donate blood, given that the majority of HIV infections were among gay men. However, HIV and AIDS testing in blood donations is much more advanced today than it was then. Currently, only one in every two million blood donations results in an HIV infection...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Blood / Hematology Source Type: news
American Medical Association Says Gay Men Should Donate Blood
The FDA has banned gay men from donating blood since 1983, however, the American Medical Association has just voted against the ban, saying it is outright discrimination. After the AIDS outbreak nearly three decades ago, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) decided that homosexuals shouldn't be allowed to donate blood, given that the majority of HIV infections were among gay men. However, HIV and AIDS testing in blood donations is much more advanced today than it was then. Currently, only one in every two million blood donations results in an HIV infection...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Blood / Hematology Source Type: news
FDA Exempts 120 Medical Devices From PMA Requirements
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a list of 120 medical devices it intends to exempt from premarket notification requirements. The FDA has deemed these devices sufficiently well understood that further regulatory review is unnecessary to ensure their safety and effectiveness before they hit market.Among the products slated for exemption are dentures, hearing aids, and surgical lights/lamps.
Source: Medical Design Online News - July 2, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news
FDA Exempts 120 Medical Devices From 510(k) Requirements
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a list of 120 medical devices it intends to exempt from premarket notification requirements. The FDA has deemed these devices sufficiently well understood that further regulatory review is unnecessary to ensure their safety and effectiveness before they hit market.Among the products slated for exemption are dentures, hearing aids, and surgical lights/lamps.
Source: Medical Design Online News - July 2, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news
Medical Marijuana: More Questions than Answers
With 23 states and the District of Columbia having enacted medical marijuana laws as of August 2014, it is important that psychiatrists be able to address questions about medical marijuana from patients, families, and other health care professionals. The author discusses the medical literature on synthetic cannabinoids and medical marijuana. The synthetic cannabinoids dronabinol and nabilone are approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy and appetite stimulation in patients with wasting diseases such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Re...
Source: Journal of Psychiatric Practice - September 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Practitioner's Corner Source Type: research
Medical Researcher Allen D. Allen Is Waiting...
Much of our lives are spent waiting. We wait for our hopes, plans and actions to develop, progress and mature. Allen D. Allen is a retired medical researcher and he too is waiting. He waits for the final chapter of his innovative life work.
Allen waits for the implementation of a blood test that he discovered to identify major depression. Most significantly, he is waiting for a Phase III clinical trial of an antibody that can change how HIV/AIDS is treated. In life, it takes a great deal of work and effort to hurry up and wait.
A Medical Researcher can be found at most university teaching hospitals. Their job is to obs...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 29, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Colorado Rejects Giving PTSD Patients Access To Medical Marijuana
Colorado rejected adding post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of conditions that qualify for treatment with medical marijuana on Wednesday. After hours of emotional testimony from researchers, veterans and others who suffer from PTSD, the state Board of Health voted 6-2 not to include the disorder on the list of eligible conditions, citing a lack of science supporting marijuana's medical efficacy in treating PTSD. Had the board approved the amendment, PTSD would have been the first new ailment added to the list since Colorado's medical marijuana program began about 15 years ago. The board has rejected including PTSD ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 15, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Doctors Call On DEA To Reschedule Marijuana For Medical Research Purposes
The American Academy of Pediatrics is requesting that the Drug Enforcement Administration reclassify marijuana as a less harmful substance in order to facilitate research of the substance for medical use, according to a policy statement released Monday.
"The AAP strongly supports research and development of pharmaceutical cannabinoids and supports a review of policies promoting research on the medical use of these compounds," the AAP statement reads. To that end, the group recommends that the DEA reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I controlled substance to Schedule II.
Under the Controlled Substances Act, the U.S. has...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 27, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
F.D.A. Clears Path for Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids
The agency ’s action opens the door to cheaper, more accessible devices without a prescription or medical exam.
Source: NYT Health - August 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Jewett Tags: Medical Devices Ears and Hearing Regulation and Deregulation of Industry Tests and Examinations Food and Drug Administration your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news
Inside the Effort to Promote Abortion Pills For a Post-Roe America
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this summer, as a leaked draft opinion suggests it may, abortion will likely be banned or severely restricted in about half of the United States. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the country will return to a world before 1973, when the landmark Supreme Court case enshrined a constitutional right to abortion.
Abortion pills, which can be ordered online and delivered by mail, have already fundamentally changed reproductive rights in America. The regimen of two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, can in theory be safely taken anywhere, including in the privacy of people&rsquo...
Source: TIME: Health - May 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams and Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized abortion feature healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The Most Exciting Health Stories Of 2014
While 2014 will forever be known as the year of the world's biggest Ebola outbreak -- and the first cases of Ebola contracted in the United States -- the virus is just one of several impactful changes in our medical and personal health landscape. From cancer research breakthroughs to innovative food policies to strides in the search for an HIV vaccine, we're quite a bit further in our understanding of medicine than we were last year.
Thanks to research in 2014...
Your Fitness Tracker Data Could Lead To The Next Big Medical Discovery
Your FitBit, Jawbone and other personal tracking devices and apps are logging every s...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 16, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Can Cannabis Help Your Gut?
When Joe Silverman developed Crohn’s disease at age 21, the symptoms started out mild. While the sight of blood in his stools initially freaked him out, what really bothered him was the frequent abdominal pain and bloating that occurred as his condition progressed to moderate and then severe. Dietary changes didn’t make a difference, so he began taking prescription oral anti-inflammatory drugs that are often used to treat certain bowel diseases, which alleviated but didn’t eliminate his discomfort. He started using prescription steroid suppositories to cope with flare-ups of the inflammatory bowel disease...
Source: TIME: Health - September 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stacey Colino Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Vaccines, Antibodies and Drug Libraries. The Possible COVID-19 Treatments Researchers Are Excited About
In early April, about four months after a new, highly infectious coronavirus was first identified in China, an international group of scientists reported encouraging results from a study of an experimental drug for treating the viral disease known as COVID-19.
It was a small study, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, but showed that remdesivir, an unapproved drug that was originally developed to fight Ebola, helped 68% of patients with severe breathing problems due to COVID-19 to improve; 60% of those who relied on a ventilator to breathe and took the drug were able to wean themselves off the machines after 18...
Source: TIME: Health - April 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Data Doesn ’t Support New COVID-19 Booster Shots for Most, Says Vaccine Expert
In a perspective published Jan. 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine, vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit says it’s time to rethink booster recommendations.
In the third year of the pandemic, the population’s immune situation is vastly different from what it was in 2019 when SARS-CoV-2 emerged. Now, most people have been vaccinated against the virus, been infected with it (once or multiple times), or both. And the latest data show that the newest booster shot, which targets the Omicron BA.4/5 strain and original virus variants in a bivalent formulation, isn’t that much more effective in generating virus-fi...
Source: TIME: Health - January 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
