The FDA, which turned away Akebia's initial application last March 2022, has a target action of Wednesday on the company's resubmission, which included safety data from tens of thousands of patients in Japan, where vadadustat was approved in mid-2020. Akebia has said it is prepping for a U.S. commercial launch of vadadustat in the second half if it gets an FDA green light.
I kept calling my doctor’s office for updates, but the receptionist told me he was busy.
Densely nutritious and good for your heart and brain, cashews can be much more than just a snack food. Here's what happens if you add them to your daily diet
While many people suffering from obesity have been using Ozempic to help with weight loss, health professionals are warning of potential side effects.
Karyn Esser, in her 60s, replaced running with brisk walking and took up strength training — even though she doesn't like it.
Whoopi Goldberg revealed she used Mounjaro to lose weight. “The View” host also defended Kelly Clarkson’s use of weight loss medication.
A retired lieutenant colonel in the Air Force beat the odds when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year.
The actress posted videos of herself doing impressive yoga poses to Instagram on Sunday, May 19
A Manchester daycare owner and her employees turned themselves in after an investigators said they were adding melatonin to children's food.
What your kids eat now has a big impact on their health for much of their life. Experts explain why you should be particularly cautious of these foods.
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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyKHARKIV, Ukraine—Fighting on the front lines has taken a disastrous turn for the worse after Russia broke through Kharkiv’s line of defense on May 10. Throughout Eastern Ukraine, the brutal repercussions of the six-month-long pause in new U.S. aid led to massive losses on the battlefield. Ukrainian soldiers risking their lives for their country are suffering from physical and psychological trauma. With few ways to decompress from the all
Martin White died at the age of 33 after being given blood products contaminated with HIV.
In an isolated part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters known as the 12th-floor “bubble,” chief Anne Milgram made an unusual request of top deputies summoned in March for what she called the “Marijuana Meeting”: Nobody could take notes. Over the next half hour, she broke the news that the Biden administration would soon be issuing a long-awaited order reclassifying pot as a less-dangerous drug, a major hurdle toward federal legalization that DEA has long resisted. And Milgra
Injected medications that treat diabetes and obesity increase the risk of a rare but serious side effect: stomach paralysis, according to new data on real-world use of the drugs.
A new study has linked the legalization of cannabis with a rise in the number of Ontario seniors visiting emergency rooms. The number of people aged 65 and over checking into ERs in Ontario for what amounted to cannabis poisoning grew sharply over an eight-year period, particularly after cannabis was legalized, according to the report published Monday in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine. "These are not people getting too high, being giddy and laughing," said Dr. Nathan St
The FLiRT variants are currently the dominant COVID-19 strains in the United States.
British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday. An estimated 3,000 people in the United Kingdom are believed to have died and many others were left with lifelong illnesses after receiving blood or blood products tainted with HIV or hepatitis in the 1970s to the early 1990s. The scandal is widely seen as the deadliest disaster in the history of Britain’s state-run National Health Service since its inception in 1948.
Noland Arbaugh, 30, is the first person implanted with Elon Musk's experimental brain chip, Neuralink, and hopes his story can help inspire others with spinal cord injuries.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to be on the lookout for potentially deadly meningococcal disease linked to travel to Saudi Arabia.
Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently.
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