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• US's Azar Says Any US Vaccine Would Be Shared Once US Needs Met US Health Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday that any US vaccine or treatment for COVID-19 would be shared fairly with the rest of the world, once the US need has been satisfied.
  Reuters Health Information, August 10, 2020
• WHO Decries 'Vast Global Gap' in Funds Needed to Fight Coronavirus There is a 'vast global gap' between funds needed to fight the coronavirus pandemic and funds committed, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday, and the WHO was only '10% of the way' there.
  Reuters Health Information, August 10, 2020
• Alan Alda, Helen Riess Urge Pandemic-Era Empathy Alan Alda and Helen Riess, MD, Mass General Hospital, have teamed up to spread the word about the importance of empathy in the clinical setting, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2020
• Is the Kidney Merely a 'Bystander' When it Comes to COVID-19? A new study adds another piece to the confusing jigsaw that is COVID-19 and kidney injury; researchers now suspect any renal damage is a by-product of the effect of SARS-CoV-2 elsewhere in the body.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2020
• AI Improves Diagnostic Accuracy in Cervical Cancer Another diagnostic win for deep learning, with a computer model outperforming traditional radiology in identifying lymph node involvement in cervical cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2020
• Scientists Ask: Without Trial Data, How Can We Trust Russia's COVID Vaccine? An announcement by Russia on Tuesday that it will approve a COVID-19 vaccine after less than 2 months of human testing prompted alarm among global health experts.
  Reuters Health Information, August 11, 2020
• High Pregnancy and Live Birth Rates After Bariatric Surgery in PCOS Patients Women with PCOS often struggle to conceive, but a new study links weight loss following bariatric surgery in very obese PCOS patients to high rates of pregnancy and live births.
  Reuters Health Information, August 10, 2020
• Online CPR Videos Rarely Feature Women, Study Finds About 98% of instructional videos found on online sites about CPR include men or a manikin without a female anatomy, according to a new analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• Women With AF Feel Worse Than Men Even After Ablation Both before and after catheter ablation to treat atrial fibrillation (AF), women have significantly worse symptom scores and health-related quality of life (HRQL) than do men, according to researchers in Canada.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• Alzheimer's Drug From Biogen to Get Speedy U.S. Review The US FDA will conduct an expedited review of an experimental Alzheimer's drug from Biogen and Japan's Eisai, the companies said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, August 07, 2020
• Antibiotic Resistance: Personal Responsibility in Short Supply Most primary care physicians agree that antibiotic resistance and inappropriate prescribing are problems in the US, but they are much less inclined to recognize these issues in their own practices.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2020
• Health Disparities Training Falls Short for IM Residents Less than half of internal medicine residency program directors report formal curricula on the topic of health disparities.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2020
• Most Clinicians Undertreat Childhood Lichen Sclerosus During the initial assessment, physicians tend to think about sexual abuse or sexually transmitted diseases as the primary culprit.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2020
• UK Orders Recall of 741,000 Coronavirus Testing Kits Over Safety Concerns Randox Laboratories has been instructed by Britain's medicines regulator to recall up to 741,000 coronavirus test kits from the national test and trace programme as a precautionary measure.
  Reuters Health Information, August 10, 2020
• Metformin May Benefit Overweight Women With PCOS Undergoing IVF Metformin treatment may be helpful in overweight women with polycystic ovary syndrome who are undergoing assisted reproduction, new research from China suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, August 07, 2020
• Chemo-Free Management of Mesothelioma on Horizon Combination immunotherapy with nivolumab and ipilimumab could replace chemotherapy for patients with treatment-naive mesothelioma, suggest new phase 3 trial data.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2020
• Point-of-Care Test Simplifies Gonorrhea Treatment A simple test identified which patients with gonorrhea could be treated with a single pill rather than a painful injection, researchers have found.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2020
• Concussion Linked to Risk for Dementia, Parkinson's, ADHD The increased strength of association between concussion and risk for ADHD and anxiety disorders may result from gender-based differences in reporting, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2020
• Sintilimab Scintillates in First-line Non-squamous NSCLC The investigational immunotherapy shows progression-free survival rates comparable to pembrolizumab when added to standard chemotherapy in non-squamous NSCLC, but mature survival data are awaited.
  Medscape Medical News, August 10, 2020
• COVID-19 Update: Chronic Fatigue, Preventing Next 5M Cases These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, August 10, 2020