Source: US Food and Drug Administration Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir) to authorize state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid to eligible patients. “The FDA recognizes the important role pharmacists have played and continue to play in combatting this pandemic,” said Patrizia Cavazzoni, […]
Source: RLS Media The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) today released the fiscal year 2023 hospital Charity Care, Graduate Medical Education (GME), and Graduate Medical Education Supplemental (GME-S) funding distributions. This is part of over $794 million in hospital funding provided in the FY2023 Appropriations Act signed by Governor Murphy on Thursday. “The Department […]
PART ONE Source: Prevention/Pocket Here other things that a chronic a lack of sleep can hurt: Your sex drive. “When you’re fatigued, your brain prioritizes getting sleep over other things,” says Dr. Winters. But other chemicals that are important for sexual performance and arousal, such as oxytocin, can be lowered by sleep deprivation. One study […]
Source Prevention/Pocket Even before the pandemic, more than a third of Americans weren’t getting the recommended seven plus hours of nightly sleep. And by certain estimates, as many as 68% of Americans say they just aren’t getting enough rest. “Most of the systems in our body are predicated on some process of renewal or need […]
Source: GlobalNews.ca Olympic gold medallist Alex Kopacz may be used to being out of breath when pushing a bobsled, but last year after he was hospitalized for COVID-19, he experienced a very different kind of breathlessness. Kopacz was put on oxygen for two months and experienced a number of other health setbacks in the months […]
Headache and Migraine Awareness: ThinkMigraine.com · (HeadacheMigraine.org · National Headache Fndn. 7-Second Freeze Challenge · New Jersey Specialists · Donate The National Headache Foundation is inviting you to participate in the Seven Second Freeze Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to bring awareness to the pain of migraine disease and headache disorders, and to […]