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ATS 2021, New York, NY - A weighted lottery designed to increase access to the antiviral drug remdesivir during the May-July 2020 COVID-19 surge for those most affected by the coronavirus, including members of the Black, Latinx and indigenous communities, led to more equitable distribution of the badly needed medication, according to research presented at the ATS 2021 International Conference.
At a time when supplies of COVID-19 medications were scarce, Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, vice chair and professor of critical care medicine, UPMC endowed chair for ethics in critical care medicine and director of the Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and colleagues, convened a multi-institution consortium of experts to develop a weighted lottery, in which some patients would be given higher priority for receiving remdesivir while others would be given lower priority.
Living in redlined areas associated with lower lung function in those with asthma
Individuals with asthma who live in redlined neighborhoods have worse lung function than those in locales that excluded Black people and benefited from decades of inequitable wealth accumulation at the expense of Black communities in the United States, according to research presented at the ATS 2021 International Conference.
Alexander Schuyler, MD/PhD candidate, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Sally Wenzel, MD, director, Asthma & Environmental Lung Health Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, sought to examine the connection between residence in historically redlined communities and the impact on lung function and asthma outcomes. Redlining is a form of institutional racism and discriminatory mortgage lending practice enacted by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in the New Deal era that resulted in racialized economic deprivation and segregation. These historically val
Parallel confirmed Friday it has sold its Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania warehouse to an affiliate of a cannabis REIT,
Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. (NYSE:IIPR), for roughly $68 million.
In relation to the sale, both companies also signed a long-term lease agreement.
Parallel noted it plans to use the collected proceeds to finalize the original construction of the warehouse that will serve as goodblend’s state-of-the-art cannabis cultivation and processing facility. The Pennsylvania facility expects to launch its activities in the middle of this year.
Upon finalizing phase one of the renovation, the warehouse will have around 124,000 sq. ft. of available space for Parallel, and an extra 36,000 sq. ft. for further expansion.
The studies shed light on whether tube placement is needed for recurrent ear infections and if stewardship practices can cut back on delayed antibiotic prescriptions.
There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child's ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during the.