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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 emergency physician at Oregon Health and Science University and founding member of TIME S UP Healthcare, but Choo did not report Campbell s behavior. ....
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: Clinical Electrophysiology) The 4PEPS tool safely ruled out pulmonary embolism solely on clinical criteria and optimized D-dimer measurement, while substantially reducing imaging tests. ( ....
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 that had worrisome COVID variants in its population. That may account for its lower effectiveness compared with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which weren t tested under such conditions, he said. ....
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 the pediatric ICU there. After each holiday gathering Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year s . we saw a significant surge in COVID-19 cases. Now we re about 6 to 8 weeks out from those exposures, and that s the exact timeline of when MIS-C presents. ....