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email article While the Olympic games were cancelled due to the pandemic last year, Japan and host city Tokyo ironically are experiencing higher COVID-19 case numbers than last summer, with a 7-day average of about 5,000 cases. To mitigate spread, the Olympics are 'bubbled' and devoid of fans. So how are precautions playing out on the ground? MedPage Today has spoken with three team doctors since the games officially began last Friday, who note that organizers have taken many other additional precautions. The three physicians are Naresh Rao, DO, the men's water polo team doctor; Alex M...

email article Young people were more likely to be initially diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D) during the pandemic, while there was a significant increase in the number of new-onset pediatric T2D cases during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 crisis, researchers reported. Most of these cases involved non-Hispanic Black children and males, according to presentations at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) virtual meeting. The researchers' rationale for conducting these studies of pediatric tertiary care centers was similar: "There are limited type 2 data available on the pediatric ...

Data should be from completed phase III trials, not interim results, group says

email article More than 100 current and former employees of Houston Methodist are suing the medical system for mandating that employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 or face termination. Houston Methodist, a seven-hospital system, is being charged with wrongful discharge and violating a federal law dictating "that where a medical product is 'unapproved' then no one may be mandated to take it," according to the lawsuit, shared with MedPage Today by the employees' joint attorney. The 117 plaintiffs say they have been "adversely and irrevocably harmed by the illegal policy" and are aski...

email article Leaders of the White House's COVID-19 task force refused to completely discount a popularly held theory that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. During a press briefing on Tuesday, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, said "we don't know 100%" where the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 came from. "We feel strongly, all of us, that we should continue with the investigation and go to the next phase of the investigation that the [World Health Organization] has done," said Fauci, the chief medical advisor to President Biden. White House senior advisor for COVID...