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email article Numerous members of TIME'S 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. According to the suit, the plaintiff revealed Campbell's behavior to Esther Choo, MD, MPH, an emergen...

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 nonresponder classification should be modified," according to a REVERSE trial analysis. ( JACC: Clini...

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 don't understand that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which received emergency use authorization from the FDA on Saturday, was tested in countries such as South Africa...

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 or fewer a month over the summer and fall. "We anticipated this," said Meg Frizzola, DO, chief of th...