by Megan Pullins | Jul 3, 2018 | Emergency Medicine, Nursing, Primary Care
U.S. Suicide Rates Rising: Now the 10th Leading Cause of Death Over the past 19 years, U.S. suicide rates have increased in every state except Nevada. Suicide now stands as the tenth overall leading cause of death in the United States. Suicide was the second leading...
by PEPID Newsroom | Jul 2, 2018 | Alerts
Another mosquito-borne virus has been confirmed to infect humans, after a report published in June from the peer-reviewed medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. Keystone has been known to infect animals since its discovery in Tampa-Bay area in 1964 but has...
by Megan Pullins | Jun 22, 2018 | Emergency Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Primary Care
The World Health Organization has released the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Here are a few of the notable changes. ICD-11 is completely electronic with 40,600 more codes for injuries, diseases and cause of death than ICD-10....
by PEPID Newsroom | Jun 13, 2018 | Alerts
The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study with evidence to reveal adults taking concurrent medications with the adverse side effect of causing depression have a heightened risk of depressive symptoms. The researchers assessed the prescribed...
by Megan Pullins | Jun 12, 2018 | Nursing, Pharmacy, Primary Care
According to the new crc screening guidelines the American Cancer Society (ACS) released May 30, 2018 colorectal cancer screening should begin at 45 years old rather than 50. (4) Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cancer diagnosed among adults in the...
by Megan Pullins | Jun 11, 2018 | Pharmacy, Primary Care
The first migraine prevention medication was approved by the FDA in May, 2018. Pharmaceutical companies Amgen and Novartis designed the CGRP receptor blocking monthly injection Aimovig (erenumab-aooe) as a game changer for those who suffer from migraines. Aimovig is...
by PEPID Newsroom | Jun 8, 2018 | Alerts
The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Committees on Pain Medicine and Standards and Practice Parameter have determined a consensus guideline for the...
by PEPID Newsroom | May 31, 2018 | Alerts
On May 19, an outbreak of the Nipah virus (NiV) has lead to 17 confirmed deaths in the Kozhikode District, Kerala State, India. Two thousand people, including health care workers, are currently under observation. WHO South-East Asia Region has declared Nipah as an...
by PEPID Newsroom | May 30, 2018 | Alerts
Today, May 30, 2018, Trump signed S. 204, the “Right to Try Act,” giving the terminally ill more access to treatments outside of clinical trials. The Right to Try is intended to help patients, particularly cancer patients, who are not enrolled in clinical trial...
by Megan Pullins | May 24, 2018 | Primary Care
It has been six months since ACC/AHA changed the hypertension(HTN) guidelines, effectively reclassifying 31 million more US adults from ‘high or elevated blood pressure’ to HTN. The new hypertension guidelines define HTN Stage 1 as systolic from 130-139 or HG...
