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• AstraZeneca Exploring Options for COVID-19 Vaccine Business: Executive AstraZeneca is exploring options for the future of its COVID-19 vaccine and expects greater clarity on the matter by the end of 2021, a senior executive said on Thursday, following a series of setbacks in its race to produce a shot for the world.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Some Young Athletes With Genetic Heart Disease Can Stay in the Game, With Appropriate Care New data from the Mayo Clinic challenges the automatic benching of all athletes found to have a genetic heart disease predisposing to sudden cardiac death, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• FDA Notifies Amazon Over Sale of Certain Harmful Sexual Enhancement Products The US FDA notified Amazon.com over the sale of sexual enhancement and weight-loss products that had potentially harmful drug ingredients, in a letter addressed to the company's new boss Andy Jassy.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Olympics-Puberty Not Sole Factor in Transgender Eligibility Says IOC Male puberty is not the sole factor in ascertaining whether transgender athletes have an advantage over competitors, the International Olympic Committee's medical chief said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Restoring Pulmonary Endothelial Cells Reverses Emphysema in Mice Correcting endothelial dysfunction in both human tissue and an elastase-induced murine model of emphysema shows promise in stopping and reversing the course of the disease, according to an international group of researchers.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Gut Microbiome May Offer Novel Bacterial Markers in Kids With Autism Children with autism spectrum disorder may have a distinctive and underdeveloped gut microbiome that isn't related to their eating habits, a small Chinese study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Liver Transplant a Safe Option After Recovery From COVID-19 Once patients recover from COVID-19, liver transplantation is a safe option with no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 recurrence, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• US School Masks Debate Erupts Anew Weeks Before Classes Resume In pandemic-pummeled Florida, angry parents clashed with Broward County school board members this week over whether their children will be forced to wear masks in class.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Biden's COVID-19 Strategy Thwarted by Antivaxxers, Delta Variant With the Delta variant of the coronavirus now raging and a large chunk of Americans rejecting vaccines, Biden's COVID-19 strategy is under scrutiny.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Majority of Greeks Trust COVID Vaccines Despite Protests: Poll Most also favour mandatory vaccination for certain groups such as healthcare workers, nursing home staff, and teachers, a survey showed on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Shipped to Canada, Mexico Before Adequate Plant Inspections Canada and Mexico imported millions of doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and offered them to the public without health officials properly inspecting the operations of the US manufacturer, according to inspection records and the regulators involved.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Israel to Offer Pfizer Booster Shot Against COVID-19 to the Over-60s Israel will begin offering a third shot of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to people aged over 60, a world first in efforts to slow the spread of the highly contagious delta variant.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• US FDA Allows Lilly's COVID-19 Drug to Be Taken Without Remdesivir The US health regulator expanded the emergency use authorization for Eli Lilly's COVID-19 drug baricitinib, saying it could now be used without taking Gilead's drug remdesivir along with it, Lilly said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Lenvatinib Plus Gefitinib Promising in Liver Cancer In patients with advanced liver cancer who were unresponsive to lenvatinib, adding gefitinib led to a clinically meaningful response in a proof-of-concept study.
  Reuters Health Information, July 28, 2021
• H. Pylori May Hinder Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Helicobacter pylori decreased the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in mice and was associated with a less efficacious response to therapy in a retrospective study of nonsmall-cell lung cancer patients, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, July 28, 2021
• Heart Failure Diagnoses Often Missed in Primary Care Setting Many patients with heart failure are not diagnosed until they seek care in an acute setting, particularly female and Black patients, a US study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 28, 2021
• Disparities Seen in Use of Standard of Care Blood Thinners for Atrial Fibrillation Minority patients with atrial fibrillation are less likely to be treated with standard of care blood thinners than white patients, a new study of US Veterans Administration data suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 28, 2021
• Olympics-Pandemic Takes Toll on Athlete Mental Health at Tokyo Games Isolation and the absence of family and friends have taken a toll on athletes' mental health at the Tokyo Olympics, with some struggling to cope.
  Reuters Health Information, July 28, 2021
• Viral Particle Aerosolization During Tracheostomy Care Can Be Minimized Tracheostomy care leads to significant aerosol generation, but experiments in manikins suggest covering the stoma with a heat moisture exchanger and surgical mask can lead to a significant risk reduction.
  Reuters Health Information, July 28, 2021
• CDC Says Nearly 67% of US Counties Have Substantial, High COVID-19 Transmission The CDC said on Wednesday that 66.6% of US counties had transmission rates of COVID-19 high enough to warrant indoor masking and should immediately resume the policy.
  Reuters Health Information, July 28, 2021