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Drug Industry Now Blaming PBMs For Price Increases.

The Wall Street Journal (2/5, Hopkins, Loftus, Subscription Publication) reports that, as pressure over rising drug prices mounts, pharmaceutical companies are now claiming that they raise prices not increase profits, but to pay pharmacy benefit managers....

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Intranasal Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine Returns As Option For Kids In The 2019 Childhood And Adolescent Immunization Schedules.

MedPage Today (2/5, Walker) reports, “The 2019 immunization schedules” feature “a formal re-addition of live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), the addition of Heplisav-B, a recombinant vaccine against HBV, and adding homelessness as an indication for h...

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Trump Pledges Effort To End AIDS Transmission In US By 2030.

The Washington Post (2/5, Goldstein) reports President Trump, “the president who fired his HIV/AIDS advisory council a year ago and has no one working in the White House Office of National AIDS Policy,” on Tuesday in his State of the Union address, “pivot...

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WHO Should Consider Declaring Congo’s Ebola Outbreak An International Public Health Emergency, Experts Say.

The AP (2/4, Petesch) reports that an international group of public health experts, writing in The Lancet, “called on the World Health Organization to convene an emergency committee to consider declaring Congo’s Ebola outbreak an international public heal...

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ddcfDNA May Be Marker For Predicting Allograft Failure In Patients Who Receive Lung Transplants, Study Suggests.

Pulmonology Advisor (2/4) reports on a study published in EBioMedicine finding that “allograft failure in individuals who receive lung transplants can be predicted by measuring donor-derived cell-free DNA [ddcfDNA] for allograft injury.” The study “includ...

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Women May Develop More Tau Pathology Than Men With Similar Amyloid Burden, Study Indicates.

MedPage Today (2/4, George) reports researchers found that “women developed more tau pathology than men with similar amyloid burden.” The findings were published in JAMA Neurology.

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Number Of Measles Cases In Pacific Northwest Now Totals 49.

The AP (2/4) reports “public health officials say there are now 49 confirmed measles cases in the Pacific Northwest and seven suspected cases.” NBC Nightly News (2/4, story 6, 1:25, Holt) reported in its broadcast that “beyond Washington, measles has surf...

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Opinion: Doctors Must Better Educate Parents To Improve Vaccination Rates.

In an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun (2/4, Krenn), Susan Krenn, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication, discusses how the success of vaccines over the last 50 years has contributed to public complacency and ignorance about the devas...

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Ebola Outbreak Spreading To Large Urban Center Of Katwa.

The Hill (2/4, Wilson) provides coverage of the spread of Ebola in two eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the large urban center of Katwa. There have been dozens of cases in this city over the past few weeks and most people “...

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Opinion: Ebola Outbreak Underscores Importance Of Pandemic Emergency Preparedness.

The Hill (2/4) features a piece by opinion contributors Brian T. Garibaldi, MD, director of the bio-containment unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital and associate professor of medicine and physiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Lisa...

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Reformulating Pain Medication May Have Led To Rise In Hepatitis C Cases, Analysis Suggests.

U.S. News & World Report (2/4, Galvin) reports a new analysis suggests that “the reformulation of [Purdue Pharma’s] opioid” pain medication “OxyContin [oxycodone hydrochloride] nearly a decade ago played a leading role in an explosion of hepatitis C infec...

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Metropolitan Hotspots Are Increasingly Vulnerable To Vaccine-Preventable Disease Outbreaks, Study Suggests.

The Kansas City (MO) Business Journal (2/4, Subscription Publication) reports a new study suggests that “Kansas City is one of 15 metropolitan ‘hot spots’ nationwide that are increasingly vulnerable to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease.” In the stu...

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Trump Expected To Announce Plan To Stop Spread Of HIV In US By 2030.

The New York Times (2/4, Pear, Rogers) reports President Trump is expected to announce during his State of the Union address “a national commitment to end transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, with a goal of stopping its spread in this country by 20...

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Experts Raising Concern Over Medical Marijuana Containing Arsenic, Salmonella.

The AP (2/4) reports that “health and industry experts in Michigan are raising concerns about caregiver-produced medical marijuana following the discovery of more than 50 pounds (23 kilograms) of contaminated product.” The marijuana products “contained ch...

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Trump Planning To Announce 10-Year HIV Reduction Strategy In SOTU.

Politico (2/3, Diamond) reports that its sources say President Trump “plans to use Tuesday night’s State of the Union address to promise an end to the HIV epidemic in America.” The strategy would involve a 10-year effort to focus on areas with the most in...

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Research Suggests Anti-Cancer Gene May Fuel Cancer Growth.

The San Diego Union-Tribune (2/1, Fikes) reported “a cancer-fighting gene known as the ‘guardian of the genome’ actually promotes certain tumors, according to a study by UC San Diego researchers.” The findings suggest drugs targeting p53 may be counter-pr...

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At Six Months, WHO Sees Reasons For Hope, Concern In Ebola Outbreak In Eastern Congo.

The AP (2/1, Petesch) reports that at six months since the outbreak of Ebola in eastern Congo there have been “a worrying number of confirmed cases linked to health centers” with to “poor practices.” According to the World Health Organization, “86 percent...

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Attendee At North American International Auto Show Diagnosed With Rubella.

The AP (2/2) reports that according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, someone who attended the North American International Auto Show in Detroit from January 13 to 15 was subsequently diagnosed with rubella, and “might have been con...

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Herpes Zoster Vaccination Or Antiviral Therapy May Not Reduce The Risk Of Acute Ischemic Stroke Following Shingles, Study Indicates.

Medscape (2/1, Wendling, Subscription Publication) reported researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that “receiving a herpes zoster (HZ) vaccination, antiviral therapy, or both after an episode of shingles does not reduce the i...

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Kentucky Investigating Vaccines That Caused Infections, May Not Protect Against Illness.

The AP (2/2) reports the Kentucky Department of Public Health is “investigating after vaccines administered at workplaces in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio caused infections.” The AP adds, “Most vaccinations were administered in central Kentucky after Sept. 1...

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Drug Industry Now Blaming PBMs For Price Increases.

Intranasal Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine Returns As Option For Kids In The 2019 Childhood And Adolescent Immunization Schedules.

Trump Pledges Effort To End AIDS Transmission In US By 2030.

WHO Should Consider Declaring Congo’s Ebola Outbreak An International Public Health Emergency, Experts Say.

ddcfDNA May Be Marker For Predicting Allograft Failure In Patients Who Receive Lung Transplants, Study Suggests.

Women May Develop More Tau Pathology Than Men With Similar Amyloid Burden, Study Indicates.

Number Of Measles Cases In Pacific Northwest Now Totals 49.

Opinion: Doctors Must Better Educate Parents To Improve Vaccination Rates.

Ebola Outbreak Spreading To Large Urban Center Of Katwa.

Opinion: Ebola Outbreak Underscores Importance Of Pandemic Emergency Preparedness.

Reformulating Pain Medication May Have Led To Rise In Hepatitis C Cases, Analysis Suggests.

Metropolitan Hotspots Are Increasingly Vulnerable To Vaccine-Preventable Disease Outbreaks, Study Suggests.

Trump Expected To Announce Plan To Stop Spread Of HIV In US By 2030.

Experts Raising Concern Over Medical Marijuana Containing Arsenic, Salmonella.

Trump Planning To Announce 10-Year HIV Reduction Strategy In SOTU.

Research Suggests Anti-Cancer Gene May Fuel Cancer Growth.

At Six Months, WHO Sees Reasons For Hope, Concern In Ebola Outbreak In Eastern Congo.

Attendee At North American International Auto Show Diagnosed With Rubella.

Herpes Zoster Vaccination Or Antiviral Therapy May Not Reduce The Risk Of Acute Ischemic Stroke Following Shingles, Study Indicates.

Kentucky Investigating Vaccines That Caused Infections, May Not Protect Against Illness.