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• Breast Cancer Prediction Tool for US Black Women Eases Risk Stratification A risk prediction tool for breast cancer in US Black women showed similar accuracy to current questionnaire-based models in a validation study, and seems suitable for risk stratification in primary care settings.
  Reuters Health Information, October 19, 2021
• Earlier Breast Cancer Screening Would Narrow Mortality Gap for Black Women Racial disparities in breast cancer survival in the United States could be cut by more than half if Black women got mammograms every other year starting at age 40, according to findings from a model of simulated health outcomes published on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 19, 2021
• Pandemic Impacts Postpartum Mother-Infant Bonding in Multiple Ways Pandemic-related grief, particularly depression, increased risks to maternal-infant bonding among postpartum women, whereas anxiety and health worries did not, an online survey shows.
  Reuters Health Information, October 19, 2021
• Children Fuel English COVID Case Rise After Slow Vaccine Start The spread of COVID-19 among children in England is fuelling a rise in cases nationally and causing concern among some scientists that vaccines are being rolled out in schools too slowly, risking the welfare of children and adults alike.
  Reuters Health Information, October 19, 2021
• US Workers Face Layoffs as US COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Kick in Thousands of unvaccinated workers across the United States are facing potential job losses as a growing number of states, cities and private companies start to enforce mandates for inoculation against COVID-19.
  Reuters Health Information, October 19, 2021
• Moscow Imposes New COVID Curbs as Daily Deaths Break Record Moscow's mayor announced four months of stay-home restrictions for unvaccinated over-60s on Tuesday and the Russian government proposed a week-long workplace shutdown as the national death toll from COVID-19 hit yet another daily high.
  Reuters Health Information, October 19, 2021
• WHO-Led Programme Aims to Buy Antiviral COVID-19 Pills for $10: Document A World Health Organization-led programme to ensure poorer countries get fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments aims to secure antiviral drugs for patients with mild symptoms for as little as $10 per course.
  Reuters Health Information, October 19, 2021
• Lack of Vaccination Passport, Testing Threaten Japan's Reopening Japan's lack of a vaccination passport and limited testing capacity is threatening ambitions to reopen the economy at a crucial year-end period when restaurants earn up to a half of their annual revenue and travel agencies are at their busiest.
  Reuters Health Information, October 19, 2021
• Medicare Spent Hundreds of Millions on Cancer Drugs Confirmed to Have No Benefit In 2017-2019, the health benefits program for US seniors spent an estimated $569 million on four cancer drugs that had received accelerated approval but later proved to have no survival benefit, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 18, 2021
• J&J Puts Talc Liabilities Into Bankruptcy Johnson & Johnson on Thursday put into bankruptcy tens of thousands of legal claims alleging its Baby Powder and other talc-based products caused cancer, offloading the potential liabilities into a newly created subsidiary.
  Reuters Health Information, October 15, 2021
• Visual Outcomes of Cataract Surgery Usually Favorable in Patients With Diabetes Two thirds of patients with diabetes achieve a good visual outcome of 20/40 or better after cataract surgery, according to one of the largest studies to assess visual acuity in people with diabetes undergoing cataract surgery.
  Reuters Health Information, October 18, 2021
• Three New Ebola Cases Confirmed in Eastern Congo Three new Ebola cases have been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the total to five in the last 10 days, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 18, 2021
• Biden Administration Asks US Supreme Court to Block Texas Abortion Law President Joe Biden's administration on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to block a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortion after a lower court reinstated the Republican-backed measure.
  Reuters Health Information, October 18, 2021
• EU Evaluating Use of Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine in Young Children The European Union's medicines regulator said on Monday it has started evaluating the use of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine in children between five and 11 years of age.
  Reuters Health Information, October 18, 2021
• Italian Police Use Water Cannon to Break Up Health Pass Protest at Port Italian police used water cannon and tear gas on Monday to clear a sit-in at the port of Trieste, where opponents of the government's mandatory COVID-19 health pass have tried to block access.
  Reuters Health Information, October 18, 2021
• US FDA Delays Decision on Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine for Adolescents: WSJ The US health regulator is delaying its decision on authorizing Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents to check if the shot could increase the risk of heart inflammation, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
  Reuters Health Information, October 15, 2021
• Thailand to Cease Sinovac Vaccine Use When Stocks End This Month Thailand will stop using the COVID-19 vaccine of China's Sinovac when its current stock finishes, a senior official said on Monday, having used the shot extensively in combination with Western-developed vaccines.
  Reuters Health Information, October 18, 2021
• Valneva Jumps on Positive Results for COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Valneva has reported positive Phase 3 results for its inactivated, adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate VLA2001, lifting its shares in a boost for the French biotech company after Britain cancelled a big deal to buy its shot.
  Reuters Health Information, October 18, 2021
• Japan PM: New Disease Command Centre May Come After Pandemic Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday his plan to create a government agency to better fight infectious diseases has not changed but will come into existence only after the coronavirus pandemic is over.
  Reuters Health Information, October 18, 2021
• ARFID Characteristics Differ Among Youth by Sex and Age Children and teens with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) differ in how they present based on their sex and age, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 15, 2021