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• Deaf Healthcare Workers Left Behind as Masks Became Universal During Pandemic A UK survey of deaf healthcare workers shows many feel frustrated by a lack of transparent masks and adequate communication-support policies.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Might Trigger Corneal-Transplant Rejection Two older women who underwent a Descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty transplant and later received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine have presented with symptoms and signs of endothelial graft rejection, according to a UK report.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2021
• Disappointment: Screening for Ovarian Cancer Does Not Cut Deaths A huge British trial turned out negative: annual screening of healthy women for ovarian cancer did not reduce deaths from this aggressive cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2021
• Characteristics and Outcomes of COVID-19 Cancer Patients What have we learned about the prognosis of COVID-19 patients with cancer? Are these patients at increased risk of severe infection and mortality?
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute, May 13, 2021
• UK to Ban LGBT Conversion Therapy and Provide More Support Britain will move to ban conversion therapy and provide more support to those in the LGBT community who have undergone the treatment, as part of its post-pandemic government agenda.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• NSAIDs Don't Make COVID-19 Worse in Hospitalized Patients In a British study, hospitalized patients didn't fare worse if they'd taken NSAIDs regularly before admission.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2021
• WHO Says Indian COVID Strain 'a Variant of Concern' The variant, B.1.617, is the fourth the WHO has declared a variant of global concern, along with the ones first identified in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil.
  WebMD Health News, May 11, 2021
• ECO 2021 Vegetarians Have Better Cholesterol Levels, and More, Than Meat-Eaters People who follow a long-term vegetarian diet have better levels of a number of cardiovascular biomarkers than meat-eaters, with the greatest benefit seen in total and LDL cholesterol.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2021
• Reassuring Data on Impact of Mild COVID-19 on the Heart A study shows no measurable impact on the heart 6 months after mild COVID-19 among healthcare workers, suggesting screening in asymptomatic individuals after mild disease is not indicated.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2021
• Main Causes of Food-Induced Anaphylaxis Identified Most triggers remain the same, but soybean may be less important.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• BSR 2021 Studies Highlight Pandemic's Impact on Patients With RMDs From the Europe-based REUMAVID study to the United Kingdom's CONTAIN study, some common themes are emerging, with lessons to be learned for future practice.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• ARVO 2021 COVID Delay of nAMD Treatment Less Harmful than Expected Does this suggest that ophthalmologists are overtreating their patients?
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2021
• EHRA 2021 No Extra Drop in AF Burden From Postablation Weight-Loss Program Although weight loss may have benefited in one type of AF, tight risk-factor management in all patients, not just those assigned to intervention, may have blunted other outcomes differences.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2021
• First Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.1.7 in Minnesota A Minnesota investigation revealed eight persons who tested positive for the B.1.1.7 variant, first reported in the United Kingdom and thought to be more highly transmissible.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, May 05, 2021
• BSR 2021 Baricitinib Continuation Rate High in Real-World Practice Almost 75% of patients continued treatment at 6 months, and updated safety findings from the baricitinib clinical development program show no new surprises.
  Medscape Medical News, May 04, 2021
• Britain Plans to Host 2022 Vaccine Summit Britain said it would host a summit in 2022 to raise money for vaccine research and development to support an international coalition seeking to speed up the production of shots for future diseases.
  Reuters Health Information, April 30, 2021
• BP Lowering Useful in CV Risk Management Even at Normal Levels Lowering blood pressure with antihypertensive medication protects against future cardiovascular events even in people with normal or only mildly elevated BP.
  Medscape Medical News, April 30, 2021
• BSR 2021 Rituximab Benefits Seen in Neuropsychiatric Lupus Additionally, the use of concomitant cyclophosphamide might enhance the level of improvement seen in some patients, said Dr Trixy David in presenting data at the British Society for Rheumatology meeting.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2021
• Waivers for Vaccine Production 'Not a Solution': BioNTech The granting of intellectual property waivers is not the right way to increase output of COVID-19 vaccines, the founder of German vaccine maker BioNTech said, advocating instead the award of production licenses.
  Reuters Health Information, April 28, 2021
• EU Official Warns of Risks of Disjointed COVID Vaccine Records European Union countries introducing their own COVID vaccination certificates would have to grapple with a myriad of disjointed systems if the bloc fails to build a shared one, a senior official said.
  Reuters Health Information, April 28, 2021