The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that patients stopping the oral allergy medicines cetirizine (Zyrtec) or levocetirizine (Xyzal) after long-term use may experience rare but severe itching.
tl;dr: If you have been on these drugs long-term, better to taper off than stop abruptly.
Need I say it again? Bodies are weird. Really, really weird. However weird you think they are, itâs a âHold my beerâ kind of situation, because they are sooo much weirder than that. And the funnest part is that we still are far from understanding even just how weird they are!
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/ucsf-cannabis-heart-health-risks-20349621.php
55 people
I wonder about the statistical significance of that.
Itâs a small, preliminary study. Those are never worth altering standard practice for, but certainly can be a trigger for a larger, more definitive study. In short, this is a âhey, this is an interesting and unexpected finding. Probably worth looking intoâ sort of article. I look forward to more data.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/31/fda-approves-moderna-mnexspike-covid-19-vaccine
in: In a Phase 3 trial of approximately 11,400 participants, the new vaccine showed 9.3% higher relative efficacy compared to Modernaâs original vaccine Spikevax in people 12 and older, and a 13.5% higher efficacy in those 65 and older.
And RFK bans it in 3, 2⌠
Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned.
The edict, laid down in emails on Friday by Curt Cashour, the VAâs assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, and John Bartrum, a senior adviser to VA secretary Doug Collins, came hours after the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective co-authored by two pulmonologists who work for the VA in Texas.
âWe have guidance for this,â wrote Cashour, a former Republican congressional aide and campaign consultant, attaching the journal article. âThese people did not follow it.â
The article warned that cancelled contracts, layoffs and a planned staff reduction of 80,000 employees in the nationâs largest integrated healthcare system jeopardizes the health of a million veterans seeking help for conditions linked to toxic exposure â ranging from Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange to veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who developed cancer after being exposed to smoke from piles of flaming toxic waste.
âAs pulmonologists in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), we have been seeing increasing numbers of veterans with chronic bronchitis, pulmonary fibrosis, asthma, and other respiratory conditions,â doctors Pavan Ganapathiraju and Rebecca Traylor wrote.
The authors, who practice at the VA in Austin, Texas, noted that in 2022 Congress dramatically expanded the number of medical conditions presumed to be linked to military service. âBut legislation doesnât care for patients, people do,â they wrote. âŚ
Goodbye CVS â announces the closure of 271 pharmacies in the US, and here is the list of those most affected
https://eladelantado.com/news/cvs-closures-us-2025/
The end of the corner pharmacy?
This may not be as big of a story as it seems. I checked, and the 2 Chicago locations listed have been closed for a very long time alreadyâŚin one case, because the entire building was torn down and something else has been built in its place. The other one was in an area where there just isnât a lot of retail traffic or homes and so the entire strip mall is barely hanging on and mostly empty.
Canât speak to places I donât know well, but it does seem like theyâre trimming rather than completely going under.
Al the usual âpreliminary study, donât hang your hat on itâ kinda stuff, but hell, if it doesnât hold up and you exercise and get healthier, ummm, yeah, thatâs still good!
Contaminated water kills an RVer 
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There have been so many warnings about neti pots and nasal rinsing products or devices, it is really sad when people die because they believe tap water is safe:
#2 incontinence is pretty bad too. 