Perspectives > > What We Heard This Week– Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today‘s press reporters
by MedPage Today Staff March 10, 2024
“Parents kept stating that ‘We left the EpiPen in the automobile, [so] we tossed it away, we were terrified if it fumed.’ We stated OK, well, let’s look at the cars and truck temperature level.”– Richard Lowenthal, president and CEO of ARS Pharmaceuticals, on screening intranasal epinephrine spray ARS-1 (likewise called neffy) under severe temperature levels.
“This is actually uncommon from a public health viewpoint for an intervention that is so brand-new.”– Landon Myer, MD, of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, going over how rapidly making use of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for minimizing the occurrence of sexually transferred infections has actually made an effect.
“If you need to have psoriasis, today is a better time to have it.”– Amit Garg, MD, of the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in New York, on a shift towards more tailored psoriasis treatments.
“It makes good sense that a stress factor of any specific type would affect [the follicular] stage of the cycle.”– Pamela Berens, MD, of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, on the impacts of the COVID-19 vaccine on menstruations.
“I do not understand where this fascination with exfoliation originated from.”– Raman Madan, MD, of Northwell Health in New York, on the TikTok pattern.
“We simply need to beware that it does not end up being a drug that has its effectiveness cut due to the fact that there are individuals who are having a lot of bad responses.”– Robert Freedman, MD, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, requiring more client security guardrails for ketamine.
“Unsightly plaques and itching in uncomfortable locations like the groin and butts can make life unpleasant.”– Nicholas Brownstone, MD, of Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, on comorbid conditions in psoriasis.
“It is a basic problem with the benzoyl peroxide formulas themselves.”– David Light, president of Valisure in New Haven, Connecticut, going over benzene in typically utilized acne treatments.
“It’s crucial for clinicians to be conscious that possibly blood-based [HIV] transmission might happen in unique non-hospital settings.”– Aaron Siegler, PhD, MHS, of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, going over 5 cases of HIV infection from health spa “vampire facials.”