Batya Swift Yasgur MA, LSW

Vaccine hesitancy, defined as a “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccination services,” has been reported in more than 90% of countries in the world.

The complexities of today’s high-tech methods of communication, data sharing, and data storage lay practices open to unforeseen and constantly changing threats, requiring vigilance and training of medical staff.

Even if the impact of a given medication on lipid profile is relatively minimal, and therefore unlikely to independently affect ASCVD risk, the cumulative effect is important and cannot be overlooked.

Symptoms usually occur between two and six weeks after drug administration and may subsequently recur, even after the person has stopped taking the offending drug.

An undesirable lipoprotein effect of LDL apheresis is the lowering of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.

Agitation is a “common and important clinical management problem” in both major psychotic and mood disorders.

SGLT-2 inhibitors have shown promising results with regard to heart failure.

Several therapeutic drug classes have demonstrated an average 27% utilization increase after becoming available OTC.