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• RECOVERY Trial of COVID Treatments Stops Colchicine Arm Recruitment was halted for lack of efficacy in patients hospitalized with the disease.
  Medscape Medical News, March 05, 2021
• Med Student Vaccination Chaos Is Hard to Stomach The rollout of vaccines to med students across the country has been an uneven process, leaving some to question whether the right steps are being followed.
  Medscape Med Students, March 05, 2021
• Doctor Sues Med School for Discrimination Aysha Khoury, MD, MPH, was fired after leading a medical school discussion about racism in medicine.
  Medscape Medical News, March 05, 2021
• Public Health Experts Slam States' Moves to Ditch Masks The Republican governors of Texas and Mississippi announced Tuesday they would lift statewide mask mandates and fully reopen businesses.
  Medscape Medical News, March 04, 2021
• Study Tracks Delayed Local Reactions in 12 Recipients of Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Local reaction to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine can appear up to 11 days after vaccination and symptoms can persist for as long as 11 days, a team of Boston doctors warns in an online letter to The New England Journal of Medicine.
  Reuters Health Information, March 03, 2021
• COVID-19: Antiplatelet Agents May Reduce Thrombotic Risk Severe COVID-19 patients have sustained platelet activation, likely contributing to thrombotic issues seen with the infection. Antiplatelet therapy such as aspirin may be of benefit, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, March 04, 2021
• Earlier Antibiotic Initiation for Sepsis Did Not Lead to Overuse Accelerating time to initiation of antibiotics for patients with sepsis means that patients are treated earlier, but it could result in more patients receiving antibiotics, including those without infection.
  Medscape Medical News, March 04, 2021
• JAMA Podcast on Racism in Medicine Faces Backlash A 16-minute podcast from JAMA that attempts to discuss structural racism in the US healthcare system has stirred conversation on social media about the handling and promotion of the episode.
  WebMD Health News, March 04, 2021
• After Uproar, Ousted Residency Director Offered Job Back After students and alumni called her removal racist and sexist, Princess Dennar, MD, has been offered the chance to return to her role as residency director at Tulane University School of Medicine.
  Medscape Medical News, March 04, 2021
• SafeHaven Program Confidentially Supports Physician Mental Health   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Teresa W. Babineau and J. Corey Feist about physician burnout, repetitive trauma during the pandemic, and programs that can help.
  WebMD, March 03, 2021
• BMI, Age, and Gender Affect COVID-19 Vaccine Antibody Response Study finds that older and heavier men have lower antibody responses to the Pfizer mRNA vaccine than do younger, leaner, and female recipients.
  Medscape Medical News, March 03, 2021
• Variants or 'Scariants': Are the Threats Real or Just Media Hype?   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Eric Topol about the COVID-19 variants -- which are legitimate threats vs premature media hype?
  WebMD, March 02, 2021
• Time's Up Founder Choo Accused in Harassment Mishandling A $45 million federal lawsuit alleges Choo and several other leaders at OHSU didn't formally report sexual harassment complaints against the 'Tik Tok Doc' Jason Campbell, MD.
  Medscape Medical News, March 01, 2021
• Amal Mattu's Top Non-COVID Studies in 2020 Amal Mattu's picks include tips on treating gonococcal infection, the use of thrombolytics for acute ischemic stroke, and treating low-risk pulmonary embolism.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, March 01, 2021
• Battle of the Sexes: Who Gives Better Medical Care? Does physician gender affect quality of care? Dr Arghavan Salles takes a look at the evidence.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, March 01, 2021
• Older, Heavier People May Be 'Superspreaders' of COVID-19 Study finds that older age and higher BMI increase the likelihood of spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus; authors say that a nasal mist product could potentially reduce the number of exhaled viral particles.
  Medscape Medical News, March 01, 2021
• Advances in Acute Stroke Treatment 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated medical news in 2020, and stroke is no exception. This paper summarizes the major advances in acute stroke in 2020 as well as the impact of COVID-19 on care.
  Stroke, March 01, 2021
• Alert FDA Grants Emergency Use to Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine The Janssen/Johnson & Johnson SARS-CoV-2 vaccine becomes the third available to fight the pandemic in the US and the first designed for single-dose administration.
  FDA Approvals, February 27, 2021
• COVID-19 Vaccination Linked to Less Mechanical Ventilation A new report from Israel links COVID-19 vaccination to a drop in the need for mechanical ventilation among people 70 and older.
  Medscape Medical News, February 26, 2021
• Vaccines Came Too Late for at Least 400 Medical Workers As healthcare workers in the US began lining up for their first coronavirus vaccines on December 14, Los Angeles nursing assistant Esmeralda Campos-Loredo, was already fighting for oxygen.
  Kaiser Health News, February 26, 2021