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When you're facing treatment for cancer, you may start hearing about infusion treatments, therapies, and clinics. Infusions are a way to deliver drugs and medications directly into the bloodstream instead of taking them as pills or liquids. Infusion treatments are commonly used to deliver chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy to treat cancer. Infusion therapies are liquids usually given from a plastic bag filled with medicine that's attached to a thin, soft tube called a catheter that delivers the fluid into your body through a vein. Willowpix / Getty Images Nurses will typically administer infusion therapies in an outpatient setting—at a doctor's office, an infusion clinic, or even in your home with the help of a visiting nurse. In addition, you may get infusion therapies if you're in the hospital. This article will explain infusion therapy, its benefits, how it can treat patients, and what you can expect as a pa...

Thursday, August 26, 2021 The U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Department of the Treasury recently issued regulatory guidance on the requirement that health plans cover pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) treatment—"a comprehensive intervention comprised of antiretroviral medication and essential support services"—on a first-dollar basis for individuals at high risk of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In addition, the agencies announced a nonenforcement period, which expires September 17, 2021, to give plans time to come into compliance. The HIV PrEP requirement falls under the preventive care mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for items or services with an "A" or "B" rating from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). When PrEP is provided by an in-network...

An Israeli study has found that the antiviral FDA-approved drug called Fenofibrate (Tricor), an oral medication to help lower cholesterol by treating abnormal blood lipid levels, has also lowered severe progressive inflammation markers in hospitalized COVID-19 patients within 48 hours of treatment. The "extremely promising" results are based on an investigator-initiated interventional open-label clinical study led by Prof. Yaakov Nahmias of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in cooperation with Prof Shlomo Maayan, Head of the Infectious Disease Unit at Barzilai Medical Center in the southern city of Ashkelon. Last year, Professor Yaakov Nahmias and his team at HU partnered with a team of American scientists led Dr. Benjamin tenOever, a professor of medicine and microbiology and the director of the Virus Engineering Center for Therapeutics and Research at Mount Sinai Medical Center's Icahn School of Medicine in New York, to carry out lab tests that showed the lipid-loweri...

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late Tuesday approved the over-the-counter sale of Plan B One-Step, a version of the so-called "morning after" pill, for use as emergency contraception by girls and women aged 15 and older. The move ends years of debate over the issue, and follows a federal judge's order earlier this month that the FDA make Plan B available to all women, regardless of age. The emergency contraceptive is made by Teva Women's Health Inc. "Research has shown that access to emergency contraceptive products has the potential to further decrease the rate of unintended pregnancies in the United States," FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg said in an agency news release. "The data reviewed by the agency demonstrated that women 15 years of age and older were able to understand how Plan B One-Step works, how to use it properly and that it does not prevent the transm...

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Highwaystarz-Photography/Getty Let's talk about yeast infections: The itching, the burning, the smell, and then the antibiotics. It's a wretched cycle to get from a yeast infection to having a healthy vagina. Like what we put into our bodies, what we put in (and on) our vagina matters. Yeast infections, also known as vaginal candidiasis, affect over 70% of women at least once in their lifetime. I am in the 40-45% of women who report having a recurring yeast infection in my lifetime. They aren't fun, and if gone untreated, can lead to a skin infection (and more medications, this time, stronger than those used to cure the yeast infection). In other words, treat the symptoms early. I was shocked when I learned that some women choose to use coconut oil on their vaginas to cure a yeast infection. Now, don't get me wrong, coconut oil is a Godsend. I am a Black woman married to a South Asian American woman. I get the importance of coconut ...