July 24, 2020

Influenza vaccination may improve outcomes in patients with diabetes, according to a study published online July 9 in Diabetes Care. Daniel Modin, from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and colleagues used a nationwide register to identify patients with diabetes (defined as use of glucose-lowering medication) during nine consecutive influenza seasons (2007 to 2016). Cardiovascular outcomes...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it is requiring that labeling for opioid pain medicine and medicine to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) be updated to recommend that as a routine part of prescribing these medicines, health care professionals should discuss the availability of naloxone with patients and caregivers, both when beginning and...