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• From Cradle to Grave, Alcohol Is Bad for the Brain There is "compelling" evidence of the harmful effects of alcohol on the brain. The greatest risk occurs during three periods of life that are marked by dynamic brain changes, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2020
• Fortune or Foresight? AstraZeneca and Oxford's Stories Clash on COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca and Oxford University have given conflicting accounts of how they came upon the most effective dosing pattern for their COVID-19 vaccine, a rare instance of public dissension between major institutions collaborating on a pivotal project.
  Reuters Health Information, December 03, 2020
• NHS England Starts Pilot Trial of Blood Test for Many Cancers Patients with head and neck, pancreatic, and other hard-to-spot cancers could soon have their disease picked up early with a simple blood test if a pilot by National Health Service (NHS) England is a success.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2020
• Cases Drop 30% in England After Lockdown The study found a drop in new cases in all adult age ranges, including older adults. However, more infections were found in school-aged children. Schools remained open during the second lockdown.
  WebMD Health News, December 02, 2020
• ACR Convergence: Psoriatic Arthritis   Dr Saakshi Khattri reviews key abstracts about psoriatic arthritis from the annual ACR meeting, including a tool for early detection and a study showing dactylitis may signal an aggressive phenotype.
  Medscape, December 01, 2020
• Diabetic Retinopathy May Predict Greater Risk of COVID-19 Severity 'Our study reports the first description of diabetic retinopathy as a potential risk factor for poor COVID-19 outcomes,' say the authors of a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2020
• UK Testing Error Wrongly Tells 1300 People They Have Coronavirus Over 1300 people in Britain were inaccurately informed they were infected with coronavirus after a laboratory error at the government's NHS Test and Trace system, the Department of Health and Social Care told Reuters on Saturday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 30, 2020
• AstraZeneca Will Do More Testing of COVID Vaccine, CEO Says 'Now that we've found what looks like a better efficacy, we have to validate this, so we need to do an additional study,' CEO Pascal Soriot said.
  WebMD Health News, November 30, 2020
• NHS Thumbs Up to CGM for Pregnant Type 1 Diabetes Patients As CGM is made available for type 1 diabetes pregnancies in the UK, an audit has underscored the association between raised A1c levels and poor outcomes in all pregnant patients with diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2020
• Saliva vs Upper Respiratory Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnosis Is saliva sampling an effective means of detecting the SARS-CoV-2 virus? How does it compare to upper respiratory swabs?
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, November 25, 2020
• Decades of Work, and Half a Dose of Fortune, Drove Oxford Vaccine Success It took Oxford University's brightest minds decades of work to give them the expertise to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. In the end, it was a momentary error and a dose of good fortune that carried them over the line.
  Reuters Health Information, November 24, 2020
• BSH 2020 Patients and Physicians’ Priorities Around AML Decisions in Older Patients Misaligned Patients with acute myeloid leukaemia find decision-making around care is often not aligned with their clinician’s views. Lack of medication options and emotional trauma play a role in poor decision-making.
  Medscape News UK, November 24, 2020
• Renowned Interventional Cardiologist Dies of COVID-19 Anthony "Tony" Gershlick received the inaugural BCIS Lifetime Achievement Career Award in 2017 for his "outstanding contribution to the specialty of coronary intervention."
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2020
• Pfizer Files for FDA Emergency Use Authorization of COVID Vaccine The safety and efficacy data will also be reviewed by an FDA advisory committee before any decision is issued.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2020
• COVID-19 Reinfection Unlikely for at Least 6 Months, Study Finds People who've had COVID-19 are highly unlikely to contract it again for at least 6 months after their first infection, according to a British study of healthcare workers on the frontline of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
  Reuters Health Information, November 20, 2020
• Metformin Improves Most Outcomes for T2D During Pregnancy Women with type 2 diabetes require fewer insulin doses and have a lower birthweight baby if they take metformin during pregnancy, one of the first randomized controlled trials to assess this shows.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2020
• AHA 2020 RAPID-CTCA: No Gains from CTA in Mid- to High-Risk Suspected ACS Fewer patients in the CTA group went on to invasive angiography compared with the standard-care group; but otherwise, routine coronary CTA didn't greatly alter management or outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2020
• Head of England's Test and Trace Told to Self-isolate by Her Own App Dido Harding, the head of England's COVID-19 test and trace system, has been told to self-isolate by her own mobile phone app.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2020
• 'Where There's a Will There's a Way' as English Doctors Prepare COVID Vaccine Roll-Out English doctors are grappling with the prospect of 7-day service, -75 degree Celsius freezers, and vaccines known as 'Talent' and 'Courageous' as they prepare for an unprecedented logistical challenge: the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccinations.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2020
• BSH 2020 Renal Function Decline With TKI Use in Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are associated with renal function decline in patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia according to results of a 10-year follow up.
  Medscape News UK, November 19, 2020