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• Few Claims Made by Physicians for Uninsured COVID Care: HHS The US Department of Health & Human Services also said it will soon make a new distribution of money to hot spot areas.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2020
• Post-PCI Mortality Higher in Blacks vs Whites, Comorbidities Aside Patients who weren't White had more comorbidities than Whites, but that didn't entirely explain why Blacks fared worse for mortality and MI risk than Whites in a pooled analysis of PCI trials.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2020
• COVID-19 Update: Intubation Boxes, Patients Refusing Masks The coronavirus stories Medscape's editors around the globe think you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2020
• Intubation Boxes May Do More Harm Than Good in COVID-19 Risk In some intubation boxes airborne droplets from patients with COVID-19 collect and shoot through the devices' arm openings, exposing healthcare workers more than using no box at all, researchers found.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2020
• Pre-TAVR Double BASILICA Can Spell Double Trouble Lacerating the right and left leaflets was linked with lower survival and lower survival free from coronary obstruction and stroke, VIVID registry data show.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2020
• Children Rarely Transmit SARS-CoV-2 Within Households Most children with COVID-19 disease are infected inside family groups, but are not the initial transmitters.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2020
• New Insight into Neurobehavioral Effects of Legalized Cannabis The study is one of the first to characterize the association between the consumption of legal cannabis and subsequent pharmacologic and neurobehavioral outcomes, with somewhat surprising results.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2020
• ACE Inhibitors and ARBs Do Not Increase Risk of Severe/Lethal COVID-19 Angiotensin converting-enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers do not increase the risk of severe or lethal COVID-19, according to a meta-analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, July 09, 2020
• Lockdown in Denmark Linked to Drop in New AF Diagnoses The incidence of new-onset atrial fibrillation fell by nearly half during the first 3 weeks of Denmark's COVID-19 lockdown, new findings in the European Heart Journal show.
  Reuters Health Information, July 09, 2020
• Prolonged Ketosis in Hyperglycemic Emergencies Seen With COVID-19 COVID-19 may lead to hyperglycemic emergencies and protracted ketonemia in patients with diabetes, according to a case series from the UK.
  Reuters Health Information, July 09, 2020
• Still No Clear Answer on Intranasal Insulin for MCI, Alzheimer's A new multicenter trial has yielded conflicting results regarding intranasal insulin's ability to deliver cognitive and functional benefit in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2020
• Face Masks Reduce Wearer's COVID Infection Risk by 65% 'People who say 'I don't believe masks work' are ignoring scientific evidence,' Blumberg said. 'It's not a belief system. It's like saying, 'I don't believe in gravity.'
  WebMD Health News, July 10, 2020
• COVID 2020Possible In Utero SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Evidence suggests that a mother can pass COVID-19 to her fetus, but more information is needed to come to a definitive conclusion, Italian researchers say. It is likely a rare occurrence, they add.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2020
• Air Conditioning May Be Spreading COVID The air currents that are produced by air conditioners and also fans and other air moving devices can carry particles further than they might otherwise go.
  WebMD Health News, July 10, 2020
• Veteran Female Leaders to Head WHO COVID-19 Review Amid Antiglobalism Barbs Avowed multilateralists Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Helen Clark will lead a World Health Organization panel scrutinizing the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic just as international institutions are under fire.
  Reuters Health Information, July 09, 2020
• EU Lawmakers Urge Japan to End Parental Child 'Abductions' The European Parliament urged Japan to comply with international rules on child protection and to allow for joint parental custody after a number of EU citizens were denied access to their children by Japanese mothers.
  Reuters Health Information, July 09, 2020
• Brazil Press Group Files Criminal Complaint Against Bolsonaro for Removing Mask The Brazilian Press Association on Thursday filed a criminal complaint to the Supreme Court against President Jair Bolsonaro, after he took off his mask in a televised interview in which he announced he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
  Reuters Health Information, July 09, 2020
• New $1 Bln Fund Aims to Steer Antibiotic Companies in Tough Market A new $1 billion fund backed by 20 drugmakers including Merck and Pfizer is aiming to bolster struggling antibiotic companies and sustain a pipeline for new treatments, an industry group said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 09, 2020
• With Apps and Remote Medicine, Japan Offers Glimpse of Doctor Visits in Post-Corona Era The coronavirus crisis has prompted Japan to ease regulations on remote medical treatment, creating an opening for tech companies and offering a glimpse of the future of healthcare in the world's most rapidly ageing society.
  Reuters Health Information, July 09, 2020
• EU Raises Its Bet on Blood Plasma in Search for COVID-19 Therapy The EU wants to fast-track funding to treat COVID-19 patients with blood plasma collected from survivors, an EU document seen by Reuters shows, in a sign of the bloc's growing confidence in the experimental treatment.
  Reuters Health Information, July 09, 2020