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• EU Commission to End AstraZeneca, J&J Vaccine Contracts at Expiry The EU Commission has decided not to renew COVID-19 vaccine contracts next year with AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Italian daily La Stampa reported on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, April 14, 2021
• Vaccines Carry Lower Risk for Rare Blood Clots Than COVID: Study The risk of developing cerebral venous thrombosis from COVID-19 was "many-fold" higher than from receiving the AstraZeneca/Oxford or the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, researchers have concluded.
  Medscape News UK, April 15, 2021
• Oral Microbiome Linked to COVID-19 Diagnosis Oral microbial markers may be a potential diagnostic tool for COVID-19, researchers suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, April 14, 2021
• New Evidence Against Use of Fluoroquinolones in Aortic Disease In a retrospective cohort study, fluoroquinolone use increased the risk for aortic-related adverse events and death in patients with aortic dissection or aneurysm.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• Black Med Students' Photos at Plantation Spark New Group The 15 White Coats started with a photo taken at the slave quarters of a planation. Over the past year, the organization has become a driver for challenging systemic racism in medicine.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• Antipsychotics Protective Against COVID-19? Counterintuitively, new research suggests a lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and milder COVID-19 course in patients with serious mental illness who are taking antipsychotics.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• Milk Is Overtaking Nuts as Top Food Allergy Threat Cow's milk is in so many foods that it can be difficult to avoid yet it is the most common food allergy in young children.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• Healthcare Collapse Imminent, Sao Paulo Warns, as COVID Surges Brazil's richest and most populous state, Sao Paulo, has warned its ability to care for seriously ill COVID-19 patients was on the verge of collapse as it ran perilously low on key drugs, according to a letter to the federal government seen by the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.
  Reuters Health Information, April 14, 2021
• Brazil's P1 COVID Variant Mutating, May Become More Dangerous Brazil's P1 coronavirus variant is mutating in ways that could make it better able to evade antibodies, according to scientists studying the virus.
  Reuters Health Information, April 14, 2021
• Intrapartum Group B Strep Prophylaxis Not Tied to Kids' Allergies Maternal intrapartum group B Streptococcus antibiotic prophylaxis isn't associated with an increased risk for diagnosis of allergic disorders such as asthma and hay fever in young children, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 14, 2021
• Phage-Targeting PCR Test Picks Up Early Lyme Disease Promising data show that a viral gene in the Lyme disease-causing bacteria can distinguish between early and late infection.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• US: Spy Agencies Do Not Know Exactly When COVID First Transmitted Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said on Wednesday that US intelligence agencies do not know exactly when or how COVID-19 was initially transmitted.
  Reuters Health Information, April 14, 2021
• White Bagging: Insurer Shift on Drugs Raises Alarm A change in treatment for cancer is arriving in Georgia. It's not a new medication. What's coming is what's known as 'white bagging,' an insurer tactic involving expensive infusion or injection drugs.
  Georgia Health News, April 15, 2021
• Ubrogepant Safety, Efficacy Not Affected by Triptans The CGRP receptor antagonist shows promise, but hurdles set up by insurance companies limit its potential, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• COVID-19-Related Skin Manifestations in Children Continue to Emerge Two recent articles provide new information on mucocutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 in children.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• AACR 2021 Personalized Cancer Vaccine Shows Early Promise Across Tumor Types In a phase 1 trial, the vaccine, called PGV-001, was well tolerated. It was given to 13 patients with multiple myeloma who had a high risk of recurrence after surgery or autologous stem cell transplant.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• Seaweed and Other Marine-Derived Products in Skin Care Marine ingredients have been steadily flowing into the market for skin care, and research has proliferated.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• AACR 2021 Healthy Lifestyle May Offset Genetic Risk in Prostate Cancer Adhering to a healthy lifestyle may offset the heightened risk of lethal prostate cancer in patients with adverse genetic risk factors, according to results of a large US study presented at AACR 2021.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• COVID-19 Vaccine Response Lower in Kidney Dialysis Patients Most dialysis patients respond well to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, but antibody levels are lower than those in healthy persons, shows the first study of its kind.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• AACR 2021 Made-to-Order TILs Effective Against Metastatic Melanoma Cell therapy with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) extracted from tumor tissue yielded responses in patients with heavily pretreated malignant melanoma.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021