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By India Edwards HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil complaint against CVS Pharmacy Inc., accusing the nation’s largest pharmacy chain of unlawfully filling prescriptions for highly addictive opioids and violating federal health care laws.According to a news release …

By Robin Foster HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2024 (HeathDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to redefine the meaning of healthy food, issuing a new rule Thursday that changes the way food companies can claim their products are indeed nutritious.What foods will qualify for the new designation?Under …

By Robin Foster HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration re-issued a decision first made by the agency in October that a shortage of the diabetes/weight-loss medication tirzepatide is over.Tirzepatide includes blockbuster injected GLP-1 medications Mounjaro (for diabetes) and Zepbound (for weight loss).The …

Decreasing trends in performance of bystander CPR, AED use, ROSC seen with minority status, poverty levels

The monoclonal antibody treatment is for patients ages 12 years and older

3-year-old patients did not differ from 4-year-olds in terms of ability to perform or complete testing

Lower oxygen levels during sleep associated with enlarged white matter hyperintensity volumes

Findings based on smartphone home videos from children younger than 2 years

By Ernie Mundell HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In a case first reported in Louisiana last Friday, a patient has now developed the first known case of bird flu so severe as to require hospitalization, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Sixty other …

By Beth Gilbert HealthDay ReporterThe annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium was held from Dec. 10 to 13 in San Antonio. Attendees included medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, researchers, and other health care professionals. The conference highlighted recent advances in the risk, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of breast cancer, and presentations focused on …