Former Northern Ontario physician makes largest ever private donation to Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Dr. Hugh Robertson donates $1.2 million to help address shortage of doctors in the North
Feb 2, 2021 7:00 PM By: Sudbury.com Staff
Dr. Hugh Robertson, formerly of Cochrane, has made the largest ever private donation to the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Supplied
A former Northern Ontario man, now living in the United States, has made a huge donation to the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) in support of its social accountability mandate to attract more physicians to the North.
The $1.2-million donation is from Dr. Hugh Robertson, emeritus professor of radiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and clinical professor of radiology at Tulane University Medical Centre in New Orleans.
New data from Louisiana’s Department of Health shows less than 10% of COVID-19 vaccines have gone to the state’s Black residents, and health experts say the state must address distrust to increase COVID-19 vaccination in Black communities.
Louisiana released preliminary data about the more than 272,000 people in the state who have received one or both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine Friday, showing 9.86% of vaccines were administered to Black people, who make up 33% of the state’s population.
Although the preliminary data shows an alarming disparity in vaccinations, direct comparisons to the state’s overall population are flawed because LDH has not released a breakdown of the demographics of the health care workers, long-term care facility residents or people over 70 who qualify to receive the vaccines.
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In a comprehensive review of SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) 18 data researchers analyzed histologic colorectal subtypes independently and found that some lesions categorized as colorectal cancer may potentially be lower-risk tumors. The findings are published in
Annals of Internal Medicine.
Data indicate that adenocarcinomas are increasing in most early-onset subgroups, but that carcinoids, a distinct type of tumor, are increasing at a faster rate, at least in part because of increased detection and case capture by cancer registries.
Researchers from Tulane University Medical Center reviewed SEER 18 data from 2000 to 2016 for 119,624 patients with colorectal cancer to assess early-onset colorectal cancer incident rates and changes in incident rates over time, stratified by histologic subtype (primarily adenocarcinoma and carcinoid tumors). Adenocarcinoma is key to analyze because it is a target for prevention through scre