Claire Bugos
Senior News Reporter at Verywell Health
news reporter @verywell | words @smithsonianmag @discovermag | previously @medillschool | living and eating in NYC | she/her get in touch [email protected]
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1 week ago |
verywellhealth.com | Claire Bugos |Jennifer Klump
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced today that government health agencies would no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy children and healthy pregnant women. Kennedy announced the change on the social media site X (formerly Twitter) alongside Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary and the National Institutes of Health director, Jay Bhattacharya.
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2 weeks ago |
verywellhealth.com | Claire Bugos |Jennifer Klump
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on May 20 that it will continue to recommend COVID vaccines for adults older than 65 and people at high risk for severe disease. However, the agency will likely require more clinical trial data before approving the yearly shot for kids and most adults, FDA leaders wrote in an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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3 weeks ago |
verywellhealth.com | Claire Bugos |Jennifer Klump
People who use Wegovy for weight management may be at higher risk for hair loss, according to a preprint study. Researchers found that people prescribed semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy, were 50% more likely to be diagnosed with a hair-loss condition compared to those taking another weight management drug called Contrave (bupropion-naltrexone). Women had twice the risk of receiving a hair-loss diagnosis as men.
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3 weeks ago |
verywellhealth.com | Claire Bugos |Jennifer Klump
When Maureen Sideris, 71, was diagnosed with gastroesophageal junction cancer in 2022, doctors told her surgery could leave her permanently unable to speak or eat foods she loved. Instead, Sideris found her way into a clinical trial, testing an immunotherapy drug for people with a rare cancer type. After receiving nine course of intravenous treatment over six months, her tumors shrank, then disappeared. “I was in shock—I felt like I’d won the lottery.
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1 month ago |
verywellhealth.com | Claire Bugos |Jennifer Klump
People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often live with several overlapping health conditions. Clinicians may prescribe a mix of inhaled steroids and other drugs to improve their lung function, along with medications for elevated blood sugar and blood pressure. To streamline treatment for COPD patients, researchers are increasingly looking to the blockbuster GLP-1 drugs, such as Wegovy and Zepbound, which have been shown to tackle multiple health conditions at once.
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