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• B Cells Will Remember How to Make COVID-19 Antibodies People who have recovered from COVID-19 can likely mount a fast and effective response to the virus if they encounter it again because their B cells will remember how to make the antibodies needed to fight it, a new study shows.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• Denosumab Promising for Osteolysis After Total Hip Replacement Denosumab showed biological efficacy against osteolysis after total hip replacement in a proof-of-concept trial.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• ED Sonographic Score Helps Rule in or Exclude Acute Cholecystitis A bedside scoring tool could help identify or rule out sonographic acute cholecystitis in the emergency department, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• Surgical Plating No Better Than Closed Reduction for Distal Radius Fractures Surgical plating is not superior to closed reduction at improving pain or function in older adults with displaced distal radius fractures, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• Automated Sepsis Screening Tool Had Advantages in the Pediatric ED An automated sepsis screening tool embedded in the electronic health record has dramatically increased compliance with sepsis screening in the pediatric emergency department at Boston Children's Hospital and has proven to be more accurate than manual sepsis screening.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• Air Pollution Linked to Acute Increase in MI Mortality In a new study, short-term exposure to ambient air pollution, specifically large and small particulate matter, and nitrogen dioxide was tied to an increased mortality risk from myocardial infarction.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2021
• Review Shows Little Risk for Myocarditis in COVID-19 Myocarditis has an 'extremely low frequency' in the setting of COVID-19 and biopsy is not recommended, concludes a review of published cases to date.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2021
• 'Liquid Biopsy' Detects Acute Heart Transplant Rejection Monitoring donor-derived cell-free DNA in blood can detect acute heart transplant rejection early and reduce the need for endomyocardial biopsy.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2021
• Monoclonal Antibody Combo Treatment Reduces Viral Load in COVID Bamlanivimab and etesevimab together were associated with a statistically significant reduction in SARS-CoV-2. Bamlanivimab alone, however, showed no significant reduction in a phase 2/3 study.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2021
• Pfizer Says Its Vaccine Likely Blocks COVID Variant The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is likely to be effective against the contagious variant strain of the virus that was discovered in the UK, according to a study conducted by the two companies.
  WebMD Health News, January 21, 2021
• ADT Add-Ons Helpful in Metastatic Prostate Cancer Addition of abiraterone acetate or apalutamide to androgen-deprivation therapy for metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer are among approaches offering the biggest benefit with the least risk, according to a network meta-analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• Androgen Receptor Has Potent Antitumor Activity in ER+ Breast Cancer The androgen receptor acts as a potent tumor suppressor in estrogen-receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer and could be harnessed as an alternative or additive treatment strategy, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• Amazon Offers to Help US With Vaccine Efforts in Letter to President Biden Amazon on Wednesday offered to help with the United States' efforts involving the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a letter addressed to President Joe Biden, seen by Reuters.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• New COVID-19 Variant Defeats Plasma Treatment, MABs, May Reduce Vaccine Efficacy The new COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa can evade the antibodies that attack it in treatments using blood plasma from previously recovered patients, and may reduce the efficacy of current vaccines, say scientists.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• GICS 2021 Novel Blood Test Detects Precancerous Colorectal Adenomas A novel multiomics blood test was shown to detect advanced colorectal adenomas at comparable or better rates than currently available stool tests.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2021
• Madrid Begins Mass Testing Young People for COVID-19 Health authorities in Madrid began mass testing hundreds of young people for COVID-19 at universities on Wednesday to detect asymptomatic carriers in one of the groups with the highest rates of transmission.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• Europe's COVID Shot Party Gives Way to Pfizer Vaccine Delay Headache Pfizer is facing criticism, and potential legal action, over its surprise move to temporarily delay COVID-19 vaccine shipments to European countries that fear disruptions could throw their inoculation campaigns into disarray.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021
• Deaths in Elderly After COVID-19 Vaccine: Warning or False Alarm? After more than 70 deaths were reported across Europe following COVID-19 vaccination, Medscape French Edition asked an expert if the deaths are a cause for concern or are to be expected in older patients.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2021
• Vaccination Appointments Canceled as States Run Low on Doses As states ramp up their vaccination efforts, some say they're running out of COVID-19 vaccine, causing the cancellation of thousands of appointments for people expecting their first shot, the AP reported.
  WebMD Health News, January 21, 2021
• WHO Plans Slew of COVID-19 Vaccine Approvals for Global Rollout WHO plans to approve several COVID-19 vaccines from Western and Chinese manufacturers in coming weeks and months, a document published on Wednesday shows, as it aims for rapid rollouts in poorer countries.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2021