February 26, 2021
(Med Page Today) – With insults, harassment, or even threats of violence against them and their families, at least 190 top public health officials have resigned, retired, or been fired in the last year, a Johns Hopkins researcher reported Wednesday. … Read More
February 26, 2021
(ABC News) – Canadian regulators on Friday authorized AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for all adults. It is the third COVID-19 vaccine given the green light by Canada, following those from Pfizer and Moderna. Health Canada approved the vaccine for use in … Read More
February 26, 2021
(Undark) – On Wednesday, a plane carrying 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine landed in Accra, Ghana, marking the first global shipment in a plan to deliver 2 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine, mostly to lower- and middle-income countries, … Read More
February 26, 2021
(The New Yorker) – Dogs can be trained to sniff out just about anything: bedbugs and black-footed ferrets, firearms and peroxide-based explosives, gourmet fungi, toxic mold, marijuana, malaria, ovarian cancer, even contraband cell phones and child pornography. Last month, the … Read More
February 26, 2021
(Medscape) – The majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States are attributable to four preexisting cardiometabolic conditions, a new study suggests. The authors estimate that among the 906,849 total COVID-19 hospitalizations that had occurred among US adults as of … Read More
February 26, 2021
(Medscape) – Axillary adenopathy, or swelling under the armpit, has been reported by women after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, but it is also a common symptom for breast cancer. Hence, clinicians should consider recent COVID-19 vaccination history … Read More
February 26, 2021
(Business Insider) – The UK’s strategy of delaying second coronavirus vaccine doses up to 12 weeks to give more people a first shot may carry serious risk. On Monday, Scottish researchers released data from their vaccination campaign, including more than … Read More
February 26, 2021
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 46, no. 3, 2020) is available online by subscription only. “Confused Out of Care: Unanticipated Consequences of a ‘Hostile Environment’” by Rose Glennerster and Nathan Hodson “Ethical Concerns with Online Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Companies” by Henry … Read More
February 25, 2021
(Medscape) – The majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States are attributable to four preexisting cardiometabolic conditions, a new study suggests. The authors estimate that among the 906,849 total COVID-19 hospitalizations that had occurred among US adults as of … Read More
February 25, 2021
(Wired) – Achieving that is likely to take a few more months—provided vaccine makers don’t hit any production snags and worrisome variants don’t derail current progress. In the interim, an increasing number of people will find themselves in a liminal … Read More
