
Alicia Ault
Editor and Writer at Freelance
Freelance Writer at Medscape
Freelance Writer at Smithsonian Magazine
Articles
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4 days ago |
mdedge.com | Alicia Ault
FROM NATURE MENTAL HEALTHA large 20-year study — the longest and most detailed of its kind — shows that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms can endure for decades, challenging conventional timelines for recovery and offering new insights to guide future treatment.
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1 week ago |
medscape.com | Alicia Ault
A large 20-year study — the longest and most detailed of its kind — shows that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms can endure for decades, challenging conventional timelines for recovery and offering new insights to guide future treatment.
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1 week ago |
medscape.com | Alicia Ault
Health organizations and professional societies are expressing outrage over the firing of all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced on June 9 in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that he was “totally reconstituting” the ACIP, saying that all the current members had conflicts of interest and that they were beholden to vaccine makers.
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1 week ago |
medscape.com | Alicia Ault
Screening colonoscopies in 45- to 49-year-olds yield similar rates of cancer and lesions as in 50- to 54-year-olds, according to a new analysis. Researchers at Kaiser Permanente Northern California sought to compare yields between the two age groups to assess how a change in guidance in 2021 urging screening in the younger cohort was borne out in a real-world setting.
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3 weeks ago |
medscape.com | Alicia Ault
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has just updated its child and adolescent immunization schedule in a way that states that parents who want to vaccinate healthy children could do so, based on shared decision making with a clinician. The agency also updated the adult immunization schedule to say there is “no guidance” on use in pregnancy.
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