Jun 9, 2021 3:10pm
Health system Houston Methodist had set a June 7 cutoff for all of its employees to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. The policy spurred protests and a lawsuit from those who opposed the mandatory policy. (Getty/nito100)
The standoff between Houston Methodist and employees opposed to its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy came to a head this week with the suspension of 178 full-time or part-time staff, according to an internal email.
The system was the first major provider organization in the country to announce its policy back in late March. At the time, Houston Methodist set an April 15 deadline for its managers and a June 7 cutoff for the rest of its employees.
Newswise PHILADELPHIA An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancreatic and ovarian cancer cells with up to 95 percent accuracy, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.
The findings suggest that the Penn-developed tool which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to decipher the mixture of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitting off cells in blood plasma samples could serve as a non-invasive approach to screen for harder-to-detect cancers, such as pancreatic and ovarian.
The results will be presented at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting on June 4 by