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• Scientists Home in on Potential Treatments for Deadly Nipah Virus Scientists working on how to combat a highly infectious and deadly virus called Nipah, which is transmitted to humans from bats and pigs, say they have found around a dozen potential drugs that might be developed to block the disease.
  Reuters Health Information, December 12, 2019
• S. Korea Finds Some Liquid E-Cigarette Products Have Ingredient Linked to Lung Illness South Korean health authorities have found vitamin E acetate, which may be linked to lung illnesses, in some liquid e-cigarette products made by Juul Labs and KT&G, they said on Thursday, but the two companies denied using the material.
  Reuters Health Information, December 12, 2019
• 10 Former NFL Players Facing U.S. Fraud Charges Federal authorities on Thursday charged 10 former National Football League players for allegedly defrauding a healthcare program of more than $3.4 million by filing false claims for hyperbaric oxygen chambers and other expensive medical equipment.
  Reuters Health Information, December 12, 2019
• The Week That Wasn't: Cell Phone Injuries, Hypertension Mouthwash, Reversing Dementia Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, December 13, 2019
• Famine Stalks Millions in South Sudan After Droughts, Floods - U.N. Famine threatens the lives of up to 5.5 million people in South Sudan, where droughts and flooding have destroyed crops and livestock, compounding "intense political instability," the United Nations warned on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, December 12, 2019
• Only a Quarter of U.S. Childcare Centers Require Kids to Have Flu Shots Only a quarter of childcare centers in the United States require children in their care to get a flu shot, and even fewer require childcare workers to be vaccinated, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, December 12, 2019
• Acute Leukemia: 5 Things to Know The latest findings to help keep you up to date on managing these rare, quickly progressing cancers.
  Medscape Oncology, December 13, 2019
• A Teen With Cough: Could This Be Vaping Related? Challenge yourself with this case that illustrates the evaluation and treatment of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI). Would you know what to do?
  CDC Expert Commentary, December 13, 2019
• Jury Still Out on Whether to Treat Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Elderly A new systematic review suggests elderly patients with overt hypothyroidism should receive levothyroxine treatment, but for those with subclinical hypothyroidism, the advice is less certain.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2019
• Breakfast Like a King: Three-Meal Diet Improves Type 2 Diabetes A three-meal diet plan improves glycemic endpoints and leads to weight loss and less insulin use in type 2 diabetes compared with the usual diabetic diet of six small meals a day.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2019
• Three Quick Tips for Managing Osteoarthritis   Laugh and learn as the Curbsiders, a trio of practicing internists, share their favorite pearls on the management of osteoarthritis.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, December 13, 2019
• Update on Managing Patients With Suspected EVALI This report summarizes recommendations for health care providers managing patients with suspected or known e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury as flu season approaches.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, December 13, 2019
• Major Political Events Depress Young Doctors' Moods Major U.S. political events, such as the 2016 presidential election and inauguration, were linked with declines in the moods of first-year residents, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, December 11, 2019
• Home Has Become the Most Common Place of Death in the U.S. For the first time in a least a half century, home has surpassed the hospital as the leading place to die in the United States.
  Reuters Health Information, December 11, 2019
• Senate Confirms Stephen Hahn as New FDA Chief Dr. Stephen Hahn was on Thursday confirmed as the new head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, taking charge at a regulatory agency that oversees products ranging from complex cancer drugs, to food, cosmetics and tobacco.
  Reuters Health Information, December 12, 2019
• U.S. Poised to Give Federal Workers 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave More than 2 million federal workers will get paid parental leave for the first time, for 12 weeks, following a birth or adoption, under U.S. legislation poised to pass the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, December 11, 2019
• U.S. Diaper Banks Serve a Fraction of Families in Need Many families living in poverty might benefit from diaper banks but don't receive this support, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, December 11, 2019
• AAP 2019Clinicians Can Be That 'One Caring Adult' Who Changes a Life Parents, teachers, and coaches are often thought of as the people who make a difference in the lives of young people, but even a single interaction can inspire, reports former foster child Josh Shipp.
  Medscape Medical News, December 12, 2019
• Abortion Reversal Study Stopped Early for Severe Bleeding Several state laws mandate that healthcare providers tell women a medical abortion can be "reversed" using a procedure that is unproven and may be dangerous for the women.
  Medscape Medical News, December 12, 2019
• SABCS 2019Failed ATEMPT: T-DM1 No Safer in Early HER2+ Breast Cancer Trastuzumab emtansine showed no disease-free survival or safety advantage over paclitaxel + trastuzumab in the adjuvant setting for patients with stage 1 HER2-positive breast cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, December 12, 2019