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With Emily Martin Congress waits on FDA pick as Senate readies for the first HHS confirmation hearing. FDA device panel meets today
to discuss drug-coated balloon.
It’s Wednesday, welcome back to Prescription Pulse. Welcome back from the long weekend! You ll still see us again on Friday too.
Sean Key says:
This is a burning issue that does need resolving.
However, in the middle of a 1-100 year pandemic in which citizens could benefit from using pulse oximeters at home to spot early signs of deterioration, getting admitted to hospital earlier and having a much shorter stay in hospital, we need to be careful about what messages we send to the wider population.
Headlines have been disseminated from this article that ‘Pulse Oximeters are racist’ which play into the current political conversation on both sides of the pond and can be seen as ‘common sense’. If the outcome from this is to deter non-white citizens from using these devices, what are the population-level outcomes likely to be?
COVID Vaccine: Allergic Reaction Trigger
December 29, 2020
According to a report by the Italian daily, Il Corriere della Sera, there are compounds present in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food that may cause the COVID vaccine allergic reaction in some people due to previous exposure. The substance behind the allergic reactions that some people developed after receiving Pfizer’s COVID vaccine may have been discovered. This would be the “polyethylene glycol” compound, also known as PEG.
Common compound in cosmetics
Although health authorities are still investigating, as the pharmaceutical company itself is doing, we know that PEG can be associated in a rare way with allergic reactions as confirmed by Peter Marks, Director of the Centre for Product Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) biological products.
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