Even as things look promising for summer, the coronavirus is still finding new ways to threaten our creep back to normal and our general sense of health and safety. Lately, it’s been the so-called South Africa, U.K., and Brazil variants, as well as newer variants like the ones that have popped up in New York City and California. It’s hard to keep track of them all and their whereabouts. The U.K. variant, which appears to spread easily, may become dominant in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. On Tuesday, health officials announced they’d found the Brazil variant in Massachusetts. France’s health ministry just reported several cases of a new variant that may be harder to spot with tests.
When the doctor is the patient
A kidney transplant and a cancer diagnosis helped shape the career of infection-control expert Steve Pergam March 23, 2015 • By Mary Engel / Fred Hutch News Service As director of infection control at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and an infectious disease researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Dr. Steve Pergam works to protect a subset of people who are particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases: cancer patients. Here he is shown with graduate research assistant Arianna Miles-Jay. Photo by Bo Jungmayer / Fred Hutch News Service
As a first-year medical student at University of Nebraska Medical Center, Dr. Steve Pergam volunteered for a vaccine campaign in Nicaragua, bringing basic childhood immunizations to squatters living in cardboard shacks. When he returned to Nicaragua the following spring to deliver a second round of immunizations, he found that local health care
Scholarships To Keep Medical School Students Practicing In New Mexico Passes House Education Committee
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SANTA FE A new scholarship program to keep New Mexico medical students practicing in the state after they complete their education passed the House Education Committee Monday.
Sponsored by Rep. Karen Bash (D-Albuquerque), House Bill 150 provides $6 million in annual scholarships for University of New Mexico School of Medicine students.
These scholarships include a contract requiring the recipients to practice medicine in New Mexico for the equivalent number of years for which they received the scholarship.
“New Mexico is suffering from a lack of doctors, particularly in our rural and underserved communities,” Rep. Bash said. “Meanwhile, our state graduates plenty of qualified medical school students, but the majority leave for their residencies and never return.”
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