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email article Numerous members of TIMES UP Healthcare have left the organization after two other founding members were alleged in a lawsuit to have inappropriately handled complaints about sexual assault and harassment. The federal lawsuit, filed by an anonymous plaintiff from the VA Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, accuses Jason Campbell, MD -- a physician who has made a name for himself by dancing on social media -- of sexual assault and of sending her sexual texts and images. Ac...

email article Smart home speakers like Amazon Echo can be used to monitor heart rhythms by sonar, researchers report in Communications Biology. The ACTIV-4 Convalescent trial is now underway testing apixaban (Eliquis) for thromboprophylaxis after discharge for moderate-to-severe COVID-19, the NIH announced. Even if heart failure stabilizes without improving on cardiac resynchronization therapy, 5-year prognosis is much better than was thought, "suggesting that the current convention of n...

email article WASHINGTON -- Vaccine hesitancy could be greatly reduced if people had a better chance to talk about COVID-19 vaccination with their primary care physician, public health specialists told the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee. Vaccine efficacy is complex, said Ashish Jha, MD, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, in Providence, Rhode Island, at a hearing Friday. For example, many people dont understand that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which received...

email article Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) has seen a surge in cases trailing the winter wave of COVID-19 in adults, but the treatment and recognition of it are better than in the earlier waves, clinicians and researchers say. Over the last 30 days, there have been around 11 cases of this SARS-CoV-2 infection-linked syndrome at the Nemours Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, as compared with a high of six to eight per month in the spring wave and three ...

email article Amid national outcry for racial justice last summer, neuroscience graduate student Angeline Dukes yearned for a sense of community among Black scholars in her field. Following the murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, Black scientists from other disciplines -- including astronomy, botany, geology, marine science, and ornithology -- created online movements to celebrate the work of their peers and bring attention to discrimination in STEM. Duk...

Every physician has had the experience. The moment you ask yourself, "Why am I doing this?" It could be when you look into the waiting room where there are more patients to be seen and know if you take a break, it will set you back even further. It could be on the final stretch of the 24-hour shift that redefined the meaning of the word "nonstop." It could be the third time you answer the phone to clarify an order because the new computer system only allows for the order to be formatted in a ce...

The American Medical Association (AMA) has never been a trailblazer on issues of social and racial justice. As in society as a whole, attitudes at the AMA have changed, albeit at a glacial pace. In 2008, the AMA broke new ground and apologized for its long history of discrimination against Black physicians -- it didnt admit its first Black delegate to its policy-setting House of Delegates until 1950, more than a century after its founding -- and entered on what it calls a path of racial hea...

email article The field of primary care continues to face mounting challenges, but there is some room for optimism, according to several experts. In 2019, there were about 229,000 primary care physicians in the U.S., "the largest primary care physician workforce weve ever seen and the largest primary care physician workforce per-capita weve ever seen," said Andrew Bazemore, MD, senior vice president for research and policy at the American Board of Family Practice, at an event on the state...

email article The contributions made by African and Black American medical professionals to health and wellness are many. While determining just how many lives these trailblazers saved is impossible, we know that without their imagination, knowledge, and desire to help others many lives would have been lost. Since it is Black History Month, now is the perfect time to recognize and celebrate some of the numerous contributions the Black community has afforded the medical industry and the wo...