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email article Last week's revised CDC guidance on how schools may operate during the COVID-19 pandemic got generally good marks from pediatricians and public health specialists -- even though teachers' representatives were less than enthusiastic. The new guidelines tie decisions around phased reopenings to rates of COVID-19 transmission in the community and prioritize masking and physical distancing over other mitigation measures. Danielle Dooley, MD, a pediatrician at Children's National in Washington, D.C., and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), applauded t...

Amy Barnhorst, MD, and other plagiarism victims battle imposter syndrome in pursuit of justice

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email article Memory was preserved over time in people who had primary progressive aphasia (PPA) with Alzheimer's disease, a small study showed. Episodic memory was preserved at initial testing and did not decline 2.35 years later, at which time PPA symptoms had been present for 6.26 years, though language skills fell significantly, reported M. Marsel Mesulam, MD, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and co-authors in "While we knew that the memories of people with primary progressive aphasia were not affected at first, we did not know if they maintained t...

email article Two reports suggested value in trying newer communication methods to check in on patients recovering from surgery, the downside being that some health disparities may be worsened depending on the patients' preferred language and digital literacy. In the first study, investigators showed that telemedicine was sufficient as a way to follow up with patients who were discharged after low-risk surgery, though their small trial had been halted by COVID-19. Video-based postdischarge visits were noninferior to in-hospital follow-up in terms of the proportion of patients returning ...