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CDC Releases UPDATED Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain

Expanded recommendations support clinicians and patients, improve patient care and safety

Pain affects the lives of millions of Americans every day and improving pain care and the lives of patients with pain is a public health imperative. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is releasing updated and expanded recommendations for clinicians providing pain care for adult outpatients with short- and long-term pain. These clinical recommendations, published in the CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain, will help clinicians work with their patients to ensure the safest and most effective pain care is provided. The publication updates and replaces the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain released in 2016.

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Joining forces to enable access to essential prevention and care services for people with diabetes and TB

World Diabetes Day

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Marking World Diabetes Day: actions for better access to treatment and care

WHO has undertaken important actions that will promote better access to biosimilar insulins and medical devices for diabetes care. A year ago, WHO published a report, Keeping the 100-year-old promise: making insulin access universal. The report outlines how, despite the wishes of the discoverers of insulin, access to insulin and associated devices, still remains limited in many countries today. The report outlines the many barriers to access and proposes actions to address them.

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NIH-funded researchers to begin study of intravenous iron treatment for post-pregnancy anemia

Study to enroll participants in seven low- and middle-income countries.

Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health are launching a large study to evaluate a single dose of intravenous iron to treat women experiencing anemia after giving birth. The study will enroll nearly 5,000 women in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Zambia and Guatemala. It will be conducted by researchers in the Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health, a group of clinical sites funded by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

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Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal studies

NIH researchers find IV administration improves tumor-fighting action

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Monkeypox: Amid uncertainty, global situation ‘cannot be ignored’ says WHO chief

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Monkeypox is a rare but dangerous infection similar to the now eradicated smallpox virus.

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In people with HIV, treating precancerous anal lesions cuts risk of anal cancer by more than half

A large clinical trial of people living with HIV has found that treating anal precancerous growths known as high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions, or HSIL, reduces the chance that anal cancer will develop by more than half.

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WHO to determine if Monkeypox should be declared ‘Emergency of International Concern’; rights expert warns of COVID ‘vaccine apartheid’

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Monkeypox is a rare but dangerous infection similar to the now eradicated smallpox virus.

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Monkeypox outbreak can still be contained, insists UN health agency

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A five-year-old boy suffering from monkeypox rests in a health centre in a displaced camp in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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WHO delivers 20 ambulances to Ukraine

To support emergency health needs in Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO) on May 8, 2022 gave 20 all-terrain ambulances able to function in even the most damaged and inaccessible areas to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.