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• Oncologists Frustrated Over Limits on Low-Cost Antiemetics Current limits on low-cost generic antiemetics, allowing for example only nine ondansetron tablets each month, are leading to needless suffering and, ultimately, extra cost.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2022
• Do You Take Enough Vacation? We know vacations can be crucial to combat burnout, and physicians themselves recognize that time away is an important element of reducing symptoms of burnout.
  Medscape Reader Polls, May 26, 2022
• Improving Cross-Cultural Communication Skills With Patients Diversity, equity, and inclusion mean knowing the right words to use with patients and understanding their distinct customs and perspectives to better address their needs.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2022
• Vitamin D Doesn't Reduce Type 2 Diabetes Risk...or Does It? The latest study of vitamin D supplementation in people with prediabetes shows no overall benefit but hints there may be a role for those with low insulin secretion.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2022
• Lawmakers Grill US FDA on Response to Abbott Baby Formula Safety Lawmakers grilled US FDA officials on Wednesday over what they saw as a lack of urgency in the agency's response to complaints about possible baby formula contamination at a now shuttered Abbott Laboratories plant that led to severe nationwide shortages.
  Reuters Health Information, May 25, 2022
• Roche Develops Test Kits to Detect Monkeypox Virus Roche on Wednesday said the company and its unit have developed three test kits to detect the monkeypox virus, as the disease spreads in regions outside Africa, where the virus is not normally found.
  Reuters Health Information, May 25, 2022
• Healthy Habits Tied to Lower Dementia Risk in High-Risk Patients Higher scores on measures of seven cardiovascular and brain health factors are linked to lower dementia risk in middle-aged individuals at high genetic risk for the disorder, new research shows.
  May 26, 2022
• Variceal Embolization During TIPS Placement Does Not Reduce Rebleeding Variceal embolization during transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement does not reduce patients' risk of recurrent variceal bleeding, new data show.
  Reuters Health Information, May 24, 2022
• For the Survivors, School Shootings Bring Lasting Damage For children who survive mass shootings, the outcome over the next few days, months, and years depends on many factors, but how parents address the trauma both immediately and long-term can make a huge difference, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2022
• APA 2022 Lithium May Lower Osteoporosis Risk in Bipolar Disorder Although increased risk for osteoporosis is common in bipolar disorder, lithium may provide a significant protective effect against the bone disease, results from the largest study of its kind show.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2022
• Davos Booster for $18 Billion Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria A global health fund has raised a third of the $18 billion it says is needed to reverse setbacks caused by the coronavirus pandemic and combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
  Reuters Health Information, May 24, 2022
• FDA Chief Under Fire for Slow Response to Baby Formula Issue Califf testified before a House subcommittee probing the shortage, which has snowballed into a major political controversy and forced the U.S. to begin airlifting products from Europe.
  Associated Press, May 25, 2022
• Surgeons' Outcomes Not Impacted When They Operate the Night Before When surgeons operate overnight, it does not appear to impact their surgeries the next day, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, May 24, 2022
• No Surprises Act Blocked 2 Million Medical Bills in 2 Months 'Health insurance providers applaud the Administration and Congress for taking this important step.'
  WebMD Health News, May 25, 2022
• With COVID, 2020 Was 'Lost Year' in Fight Against HIV Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was likely a "lost year" in the public health battle against the long-lasting HIV epidemic in the US, a public health official says.
  WebMD Health News, May 25, 2022
• War Medicine Training a Challenge for Ukrainian Healthcare Ukraine has no shortage of doctors, but all caregivers must be trained to manage trauma, react appropriately on a battlefield, and evacuate safely.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2022
• It Took 35 Years to Get a Malaria Vaccine. Why? The parasite's complex biology played a role in the delay, but experts say there was also a lack of urgency and funding.
  Undark, May 25, 2022
• Legislative Efforts Continue to Revamp Laws Governing PAs Physician assistants seek laws allowing independence from oversight along with a seat at the table on medical boards and direct payment from insurers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2022
• Adding Pembrolizumab to Standard Therapy May Benefit Some GI Cancer Patients Gastroesophageal cancer patients with locally advanced disease and high baseline tissue expression of PD-L1 may benefit from the addition of pembrolizumab to standard neoadjuvant chemoradiation and surgery, researchers suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, May 24, 2022
• Pfizer Ulcerative Colitis Drug Leads to Remission in a Third of Patients: Study Nearly one third of patients with ulcerative colitis who received an experimental Pfizer drug in a clinical trial were in remission after a year of treatment, the drugmaker said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 24, 2022