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• IBD Appears More Prevalent in Men Who Have Sex With Men There are several hypotheses around what might account for this differing prevalence, but they require additional studies to confirm, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Chinese Artist Records Era of COVID, One Test at a Time A 33-year-old multi-disciplinary artist from Jiangsu province has been filming his own COVID-19 nucleic acid tests with a small camera in his mouth.
  Reuters Health Information, September 30, 2022
• Hong Kong Government to Further Ease Coronavirus Measures The Hong Kong government said on Friday it aims to ease some coronavirus curbs in an orderly way as pandemic trends in the Asia financial hub were continuing to stabilize.
  Reuters Health Information, September 30, 2022
• Italy Drops COVID-19 Face Mask Rule for Public Transport Italians will no longer have to wear face masks on public transport, the health ministry said late on Thursday, in the latest easing of rules against the coronavirus pandemic.
  Reuters Health Information, September 30, 2022
• SMART-CHOICE 3-Year Results Support Dropping Aspirin After PCI Shortening dual antiplatelet therapy duration and continuing with a P2Y12 inhibitor alone was associated with a similar rate of ischemic events but less bleeding than prolonged DAPT after 3 years.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• As Australia Calls End to COVID Emergency Response, Doctors Warn of Risk to Public Australia will end the mandatory five-day home quarantine for COVID-infected people on October 14, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, September 30, 2022
• 3.2 Mln Americans Received Updated COVID Boosters Last Week: CDC Around 3.2 million people in the United States received updated COVID-19 booster shots over the past week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, September 29, 2022
• Chinese MRNA COVID Vaccine Approved for First Time — in Indonesia Indonesia said it has granted emergency use approval to an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine developed by a Chinese company, becoming the first country, ahead of even China, to do so.
  Reuters Health Information, September 29, 2022
• Alert Class I Recall of LifeSPARC Advanced Circulatory Support System A software malfunction may cause the system's controller to wrongly enter critical failure mode causing the pump to stop working; 66 complaints and 2 injuries have been reported.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• CMS Spent Billions on Meds Without Confirmed Benefits OIG Says The Medicare and Medicaid programs spent more than $18 billion over 3 years on medications for which there was no proof of a significant clinical benefit, a new federal report shows.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• EADV 2022 Data Show Lebrikizumab Atopic Dermatitis Effects Maintained Lebrikizumab shows good long-term efficacy and reasonable safety in patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis according to the 52-week results from the phase 3 ADvocate1 and ADvocate2 trials.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• EASD 2022 Strong Link Found Between Enterovirus and Type 1 Diabetes Relationship is particularly high within 1 month of type 1 diabetes onset, suggesting potential preventive role for vaccination or antivirals.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Illumina Launches Next-Generation DNA Sequencers Illumina Inc, the top maker of DNA sequencers used to speed drug development and other research, on Thursday announced the launch of its next-generation NovaSeq X systems.
  Reuters Health Information, September 29, 2022
• Statins After Diagnosis May Protect From Breast Cancer Mortality A large review found a protective effect, but many confounders exist. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, September 30, 2022
• Has COVID Swayed the Rise in Pneumococcal Disease in Spain? An increase in the use of two types of antibiotics to treat COVID-19 may have contributed to a rise in antimicrobial-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Image-Guided Superficial Radiation as First-line in Skin Cancer? For non-melanoma skin cancer, image-guided superficial radiation therapy offered comparable disease control to Mohs surgery. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, September 30, 2022
• Hormones' Impact Described in Transgender Rheumatology Patients Gender-affirming hormone therapy does not need to be a strict contraindication in transgender patients with rheumatic disease, an author of a new case series and systematic review said.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• EASD 2022 Liver Fat Lowered by Ezetimibe-Statin Combination A significant 5.8% decrease in hepatic steatosis was seen after 24 weeks’ treatment with ezetimibe and rosuvastatin comparing baseline with end of treatment values.
  MDedge News, September 30, 2022
• EASD 2022 Improve Diagnosis of Type of Heart Failure Common in Diabetes Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is common in people with type 2 diabetes but is often hard to recognize. Treatments newly proven to be effective make diagnosis an imperative.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Gender-Based Violence Is a Cardiovascular Risk Factor Gender-based violence not only has psychological effects, but can also damage the heart, as a cardiologist reported at a recent conference.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022