US pediatricians’ group strikes to desert race-based medication

For years, pediatricians have adopted flawed tips linking race to dangers for urinary infections and new child jaundice. In a brand new coverage introduced Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics stated it’s placing all its steering below the microscope to remove “race-based” medication and ensuing well being disparities. A re-examination of AAP therapy suggestions that…

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California’s Censorship Plan Is a Menace to Progress in Medication

Might 1, 2022 12:43 pm ET Photograph: Getty Photos/iStockphoto The world can be totally different as we speak had “medical misinformation” been disallowed prior to now as is now proposed in California (“California’s Medical ‘Misinformation’ Campaign Might Value Lives” by Allysia Finley, op-ed, April 21). Smoking can be embraced by clinicians. In 1959 the editor…

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FDA Grants Regenerative Medication Superior Remedy (RMAT) designation to Autolus’ CAR T cell remedy, obe-cel, for the remedy of grownup B-ALL

Autolus Restricted LONDON, April 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Autolus Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: AUTL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm creating next-generation programmed T cell therapies, right this moment introduced that the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Regenerative Medication Superior Remedy (RMAT) designation to its lead gene remedy obecabatagene autoleucel (obe-cel), a CD19-directed autologous…

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The Political Transformation of Drugs

Photograph: Getty Pictures/iStockphoto Concerning Stanley Goldfarb’s op-ed “Preserve Politics Out of the Physician’s Workplace” (April 19): In 2015, beneath the management of Darrell Kirch, the Affiliation of American Medical Schools (AAMC) launched sweeping adjustments to the Medical School Admissions Check, or MCAT, in addition to different admissions standards utilized by medical faculties throughout the nation….

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Shanghai residents plead for meals and drugs as authorities lock down metropolis

Shortages of meals and drugs have left residents in China’s largest metropolis determined and annoyed as authorities wrestle to realize management of a Covid-19 outbreak. Shanghai, which has been pressured to comply with Beijing’s powerful “dynamic zero” Covid technique, carried out two four-day lockdowns of every aspect of Huangpu river. However because the caseload of…

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