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• The IgA tTG for Celiac Disease: Not as Sensitive as We Thought? An analysis suggests caution in the interpretation of a negative IgA tTG to rule out celiac disease in clinical practice.
  Medscape Medical News, April 12, 2021
• Bedtime Soon After Meals Raises Reflux Risk in Pregnancy A simple dietary modification could obviate the need for pharmacologic treatment of GERD in some women.
  Medscape Medical News, April 12, 2021
• Maskless Florida Woman Jailed for Coughing on Customer A maskless Florida woman will have to spend 30 days in jail and take anger management courses for intentionally coughing on another shopper.
  WebMD Health News, April 12, 2021
• Tweaked COVID Vaccines in Testing Aim to Fend Off Variants New studies of experimental updates to the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines mark a critical first step toward an alternative if the virus eventually outsmarts today's shots.
  Associated Press, April 12, 2021
• Michigan Presses White House for More Vaccines Amid Surge Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vowed Sunday to keep pushing the White House for more vaccines as Michigan sees a COVID-19 spike.
  Associated Press, April 12, 2021
• Knee Replacement: Kidney Injury Common With Antibiotic Spacers Acute kidney injury affects more than one in 10 patients treated with antibiotic-loaded bone-cement spacers for periprosthetic joint infection after total knee arthroplasty.
  Medscape Medical News, April 12, 2021
• Alert Medtronic Recall of Almost 240,000 ICDs Is Class I, FDA Says The company's recall applies to implantable defibrillators, with and without resynchronization pacing, which are at apparent risk for premature and possibly rapid battery depletion.
  News Alerts, April 12, 2021
• World Bank Says to Commit $2 Bln to Vaccines in Developing Countries by End-April The World Bank Group will have committed $2 billion in financing by the end of April for COVID-19 vaccines in some 40 developing countries, World Bank Managing Director of Operations Axel van Trotsenburg said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• Unwanted Vaccines Needed to Help Poor Countries Catch Up, International Health Officials Say Doses of vaccines rejected as countries fine-tune their inoculation campaigns will go to poor countries where possible to counter a 'shocking imbalance' in distribution, international health officials said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• Arrest Videos Undercut Derek Chauvin's Murder Trial Defense, Pathologist Tells Jury A forensic pathologist testified on Friday that the sheer volume of videos of George Floyd's arrest helped confirm the finding that oxygen deprivation caused his death.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• EU Seeks New Contract With Pfizer/BioNTech for Up to 1.8 Bln Vaccines From 2022: EU Source The European Commission is seeking EU governments' approval to launch talks with Pfizer and BioNTech for the purchase of up to 1.8 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccines to be delivered in 2022 and 2023, an EU official told Reuters.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• Families Thwart COVID-19 Patient Transfers as Third Wave Grips France In March, emergency room doctor Frederic Adnet needed to move COVID-19 patients from his fast-filling Paris hospital to less hard-hit regions of France to free up beds, but unlike during the first wave last year the transfers weren't happening.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• Merkel to Take Control From German States in Pandemic Battle German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to take control from federal states to impose restrictions on regions with high numbers of new coronavirus infections, a government spokeswoman said, in a battle to curb a third wave of the pandemic.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• Italy's Old Pay High Price for Regional Vaccine Lottery Agostino Airaudo, 86, died of the coronavirus on March 21. Ninety minutes earlier he had received an SMS telling him that, after weeks of waiting, he had got an appointment for a vaccine.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• Countries Emphasise Importance of AstraZeneca Shot as They Look to Alternatives Australia said on Friday it had ordered more alternatives for the AstraZeneca vaccine, setting back its vaccination rollout, and Hong Kong delayed deliveries of the shot amid concern about a possible very small risk of rare blood clots.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• France Opts for mRNA Vaccines for Second Coronavirus Shot France's top health advisory body in charge of COVID-19 vaccines recommended on Friday that recipients of a first dose of the AstraZeneca shot who are under 55 should receive a second dose with a so-called messenger RNA vaccine.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• AZ COVID Vaccine: Causal Link to Severe Thrombosis Established Two articles giving more details of the mechanism behind the reaction and recommendations on diagnosis/treatment are now published. Medscape talks to experts on how this may affect use of the vaccine.
  Medscape Medical News, April 12, 2021
• Chemically Sterilized Pacifiers Tied to Increased Risk of Food Allergy Sterilizing baby pacifiers with chemical antiseptics may compromise immunity and contribute to the development of food allergies, according to a study from Australia.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• Novel Genomic Alterations in Circulating Tumor Cells Tied to Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer Novel genomic alterations in circulating tumor cells, beyond the androgen receptor V7 splice variant, are associated with outcomes and resistance to hormone therapy in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer, researchers suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021
• HER2 Results in Gastric Cancer Often Differ Between Labs With Implications for Treatment In more than 1 of 5 patients with metastatic gastric cancer, results of HER2 testing by local and central labs do not align, according to a study from Germany.
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2021