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• 'This Is a Pandemic of Inequality' 'Health care workers, especially physicians, like to think that we give everyone equal treatment,' says emergency physician Uché Blackstock. 'We don't -- and we have the data that shows that.'
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2020
• Half of Recommended Biopsies Can Detect Microscopic Colitis The ASGE recommends two or more biopsy specimens from the right, transverse, left, and sigmoid colons; however, these recommendations were based on expert opinion rather than scientific evidence.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2020
• Alert FDA Clears Edwards' KONECT RESILIA Aortic-Valved Conduit The device is the first approved preassembled aortic-valved conduit for complex biological Bentall aortic valve procedures, the company says.
  FDA Approvals, July 15, 2020
• 3M, MIT Partner to Make Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Test US industrial conglomerate 3M Co has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a rapid antigen test for COVID-19, the company said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• Amazon Tests Primary Healthcare Program for Employees Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it launched a pilot healthcare program for its employees and their families to provide primary services such as vaccination and physical therapy.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• Niche US Finance Firms Grease Global Trade of Masks, Gloves From specialty finance firms to boutique investment banks, a disparate mix of small financiers is bankrolling a US gold rush for masks, gloves, and other supplies in the wake of the novel coronavirus.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• AstraZeneca Ties Up With IQVIA to Speed Up Studies of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Life sciences company IQVIA Holdings Inc said on Tuesday it would collaborate with AstraZeneca Plc to speed up clinical studies of the British drugmaker's potential COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• 'They Needed People': Brazil Volunteers Step Up to Test COVID-19 Vaccine Developers and researchers are looking to places like Brazil, where the new coronavirus is still spreading fast, to test potential vaccines.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• Swiss Doctor Pans Plastic Visors After COVID-19 Hits Restaurant Workers The top doctor in the Swiss mountain region that includes St Moritz and Davos told restaurants on Tuesday not to rely on plastic visors to protect their employees from COVID-19 infections.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• Canada's Medicago Begins Human Trials of Plant-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Medicago said on Tuesday it has begun testing its plant-based coronavirus vaccine in an early stage clinical trial.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• Former Fiat Engineer Aims to Put the Brakes on COVID Fifty years ago, he designed a braking system that helped reduce fatal car crashes. Now Mario Palazzetti has invented a device he hopes will curb the spread of COVID-19.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• Residents, Fellows Will Get Minimum 6 Weeks Leave Leave can be taken once during training for medical care or caregiving without having to use sick days or vacation. ABMS announced the move to help reduce stress and increase autonomy.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2020
• Cancer Patient Organizations Critically Affected by COVID-19 COVID-19 has broken the chain of cancer care around the world, affecting all cancer patient organizations and thousands of patients who rely on their services.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2020
• Lung Damage in Some COVID-19 Patients on Mechanical Ventilation Radiologists find evidence of barotrauma more often among patients with COVID-19 who have received invasive mechanical ventilation than those with acute respiratory distress syndrome.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2020
• EAU 2020MRI Reliably Identifies Significant Prostate Cancer Multiparametric MRI finds the prostate cancers that need to be treated, new research shows, so it could be ready to become the primary tool for diagnosis and risk prediction.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2020
• Pharmas Restart Drug Trials After Pandemic-Related Declines, Medidata Finds Pharmaceutical companies have ramped up clinical trials in the past month, though activity remains below pre-pandemic levels, according to new research shared with Reuters.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• Merck CEO Says Raising COVID-19 Vaccine Hopes 'a Grave Disservice': Report COVID-19 vaccines under development are not guaranteed to work and people who say to expect a vaccine before year-end are doing a 'grave disservice to the public,' Merck's chief said, according to a Harvard Business Review report.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• US CDC Head Says Mask-Wearing Could Get COVID-19 Under Control Within 4-8 Weeks US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield said on Tuesday that if all Americans wore a mask, the rising cases of COVID-19 could be under control within 4 to 8 weeks.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• WHO Seeks to Help Poor Latam Nations Get 'Subsidized' COVID-19 Vaccine WHO is working to ensure vulnerable Latin American nations receive a 'subsidised' vaccine at an 'affordable' price once it is available, WHO's regional director for the Americas, Carissa Etienne, said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020
• Swiftly Waning COVID-19 Immunity Poses Vaccination Challenge Emerging evidence that the body's immune defence against COVID-19 may be short-lived makes it even harder for vaccine developers to come up with shots fully able to protect people in future waves of infection, scientists said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 14, 2020