Public Health & Policy

In assessing cancer Tx efficacy, RCTs should remain the standard When it comes to determining the efficacy of cancer therapies, observational, real-world studies should not replace randomized clinical trials, according to...

Expected FDA approvals, virtual meetings, workshops and town halls Lynne Peterson is the Senior Writer for Trends-in-Medicine.Allergy: The FDA is expected to make a decision by August 5 on a patch for peanut allergy in children...

Stakeholder interest prompts FDA action WASHINGTON — Due to increased corporate and public interest, the FDA released a draft guidance to promote the development of clinical research into drugs derived from cannabis.The...

FDA on tap for decisions in Emergency Ed, Oncology, and Sleep Medicine; Also upcoming virtual meetings, webinars. Here is the medical news to watch for July 20-26, 2020.Emergency Medicine: The FDA missed making a decision by...

Lots on the FDA docket, approvals, delays, virtual meetings Here is the medical news to watch for July 13-19, 2020.Dermatology: The FDA was expected to make a decision on a topical treatment for molluscum contagiosum (Verrica...

Physicians’ group says move will result in ’brain drain’ in the U.S. CHICAGO — The move by the Trump administration stating that international students in the U.S. cannot stay in the country if they are...

The decision ’is a major setback to science, public health, and global coordination…to defeat Dovid-19’ On July 7, the Trump administration began its formal withdrawal process from the World Health...

More than half of extreme risk protection orders in one state filed because of self-harm concerns “Red flag laws” regarding firearms seemed to help protect patients with mental health issues from...

ESMO, FDA meetings and decisions Lynne Peterson is the Senior Writer for Trends-in-Medicine.Here is the medical news to watch for June 29-July 5, 2020. Take a break from the news — coronavirus and otherwise – and...

Group urges Congress to pass reform bill More than half of physicians responding to an American Medical Association Survey said they have waited more than a day — and sometimes 3 to 5 days — to receive prior...

Scoring change may reset medicine’s table The USMLE — United States Medical Licensing Exam — was envisioned as a one-size-fits-all solution to a problem that vexed U.S. medicine since for more than 100 years:...

Virtual meetings continue, FDA convenes virtual ODAC meeting, several oncology drugs on tap for approval decisions Here is the medical news to watch for June 15-21, 2020. There is a lot going on in oncology, but several medical...

Group once barred black physicians CHICAGO — When the American Medical Association convened its first meeting, the year was 1848, and the main item on the agenda was pain, or rather the use of anesthesia to relieve...

See this week’s virtual meeting line-up: ENDO, Dermatology, Diabetes, and more Lynne Peterson is the Senior Writer for Trends-in-Medicine.Here is the medical news to watch for June 8-14, 2020. Be careful and be safe....

Greater access is most pronounced among adolescents Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) resulted in increased access to the most effective means of contraception — long-acting reversible contraception...