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• Canadian Province of Ontario Will Pause First Doses of AstraZeneca Vaccine The Canadian province of Ontario will stop offering first doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, provincial officials said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• New Drug Helps COVID-19 Patients Breathe on Their Own Lenzilumab given to hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were still breathing on their own significantly improved their odds of not needing invasive mechanical ventilation, researchers have found.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• Pandemic Prompts EU Drugs Watchdog to Simplify Non-COVID Processes Europe's medicines watchdog said it will simplify some of its review procedures to focus on COVID-19 treatments and vaccines as it faces a pandemic-driven surge in new drug applications.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• America's Mask Makers Face Postpandemic Meltdown The small US manufacturers that rushed to produce face masks over the past year are now stuck with hundreds of millions of unsold face coverings because China is flooding the market with below-cost masks.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• WHO Reviewing Seychelles COVID-19 Data After Fully Vaccinated People Test Positive WHO said on Tuesday it was reviewing coronavirus data from Seychelles after the health ministry said more than a third of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week had been fully vaccinated.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• Ad Campaign Critical of Japan's Coronavirus Response Makes Waves A newspaper ad criticizing the Japanese government's response to the nation's fourth pandemic wave was widely shared on social media on Tuesday as public concerns mount over COVID-19.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• EMA Head Sees OK for BioNTech Vaccine in 12-Year-Olds Potentially in Late May Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine could potentially receive European approval for use in 12-year old children as early as the end of this month, the EU drug regulator's executive director told daily Handelsblatt.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• Virus Might Insert Genetic Fragments Into Patients' Genetic Code A controversial new paper based on laboratory experiments suggests a possible explanation for why some COVID-19 survivors still test positive on viral RNA tests months later.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• Drained by COVID Fight, Some French ICU Nurses Strike for Better Pay Intensive care medical staff exhausted by the battle against COVID-19 went on strike in some French hospitals on Tuesday to demand better pay and working conditions.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• Brazil States Halt Vaccination of Pregnant Women After Rio Death Brazilian states halted vaccination of pregnant women on Tuesday after a death in Rio de Janeiro led health regulator Anvisa to warn against the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine for expecting mothers.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• Indian Doctors Warn Against Cow Dung as COVID Cure Doctors in India are warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off COVID-19, saying there is no scientific evidence for its effectiveness and that it risks spreading other diseases.
  Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2021
• Finerenone Scores 2nd Pivotal-Trial Success in DKD Top-line results from FIGARO-DKD showed significant benefit for the primary endpoint of cardiovascular death and nonfatal cardiovascular disease endpoints in type 2 diabetes, Bayer reports.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2021
• Alert CDC Recommends Use of Pfizer's COVID Vaccine in 12-15-Year-Olds Separately, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 12 and older. FDA on Monday cleared use of Pfizer's shot in teens.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2021
• Teens Getting COVID-19 Vaccines Ahead of CDC Recommendations Some states did not wait for the CDC's input before vaccinating younger teenagers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2021
• ECO 2021 'Inflammasomes' May Play a Role in Obesity-Related CRC Immune system complexes that regulate inflammation have been identified as an important contributor to obesity-related colon cancer
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2021
• ACC 2021 AHA/ACC Guidance on Ethics, Professionalism in Cardiovascular Care A consensus report provides advice and tools to address conflicts of interest, racial, and ethnic and gender inequities, and to improve diversity, inclusion, and wellness in the cardiovascular community.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2021
• More Than 70 Bodies Found Floating in India's Ganges River Authorities have said the pandemic is overwhelming health services and the ability to cremate bodies.
  WebMD Health News, May 12, 2021
• Recurrent Stroke 'Alarmingly High' With Carotid Web Ischemic stroke patients with a carotid web – a protrusion in the carotid artery – have unacceptably high rates of recurrent stroke and may need more intensive secondary prevention, a new study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2021
• 55 New Chemicals Found in Pregnant Women, Their Newborns Researchers also found an additional 42 'mystery chemicals' in their blood samples. The chemicals are registered for use in commerce but nothing is known about their health effects.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2021
• Health Costs Over 25 Times Higher for Patients With Hemophilia B As the burden of hemophilia B in patients increases from mild to severe forms of the disease, the already high economic cost of treatment rises significantly, according to a large retrospective database study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2021