Medical Students News

• Compound From Fruits, Vegetables Can Neutralize Pit Viper Venom A substance found in fruits and vegetables can neutralize the venom of a poisonous pit viper common in much of South America, Brazilian researchers have discovered.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• 3M Ordered to Pay $77.5 Million to Veteran in Latest Earplug Trial A jury in Pensacola, Florida federal court ordered 3M Co to pay $77.5 million to a US Army veteran who said he suffered hearing damage as a result of using the company's military-issue earplugs.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• Spain, Portugal Monkeypox Cases Tallies Each Surpass 20 Health authorities in Portugal and Spain reported respectively nine and 14 new confirmed cases of monkeypox on Friday, bringing the total number of cases in each country above 20.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• Monkeypox Outbreak in Europe 'Largest Ever With 100+ Cases More than 100 cases of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, have been reported in Europe, with German officials describing the outbreak as the largest ever in the region.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• WHO Calls Emergency Meeting as Monkeypox Cases Cross 100 in Europe The World Health Organization held an emergency meeting to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox after more than 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• Poor Coordination in Care for Vets With Advanced Kidney Disease Veterans with advanced kidney disease often have a tough time getting coordinated care when they are seeing both VA doctors and outside providers, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• Hospital Medicine Gains Popularity Among Newly Minted Physicians More senior physicians trend toward outpatient care.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• The Rocky Path to Parenthood During Cardiology Training An international survey found significant variation in parental leave policies, including scant time off for trainees in the US and Asia vs other countries.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Pfizer Says COVID-19 Vaccine Response Robust in Young Children Much anticipated findings from Pfizer/BioNTech suggest three doses of COVID-19 vaccine protect kids ages 6 months to 5 years old.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• How Can the US Improve Access to Eyeglasses? Expanding insurance coverage for eye services and standardizing pediatric vision screening requirements across the US are two steps that could help begin to solve the problem, researchers say.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Opponents of Federal Vaccine Mandate Seek Rehearing A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19.
  Associated Press, May 23, 2022
• Americans Try Many Things to Ease Chronic Back Pain The survey of 2000 US adults found that almost half of respondents (49%) are affected by pain at work, and 2 in 5 say that pain hampers their social lives.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Monkeypox Quarantines Not Needed in US, Biden Says 'I just don’t think it rises to the level of the kind of concern that existed with COVID-19, and the smallpox vaccine works for it,' President Joe Biden said.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• How Could Abortion Be Prosecuted in the United States? The US Supreme Court is expected to strike down the Roe v. Wade ruling that established a nationwide right to an abortion, clearing the way for the procedure to be banned or tightly restricted in 26 states.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• Cancer Coalition Aims to Boost Access to Meds in Poorer Countries Pharmaceutical companies including Novartis and Roche have teamed up with global cancer organizations in an alliance aimed at getting more oncology medications to poorer countries.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• In Mass., Omicron Linked With Higher Excess Mortality Than Delta The Omicron variant was linked with "substantial" excess mortality in Massachusetts, far greater than the preceding Delta wave, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• North Korea's Dr Fauci? Health Official Is Face of COVID Campaign Since confirming its first outbreak and declaring a state of emergency last week, North Korea has changed tack: It is releasing detailed data about the spread of the virus
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 ACURATE neo2 Paravalvular Leaks Plummet vs Predecessor New real-world registry data comparing the redesigned valve to the first-generation ACURATE neo suggest that small changes can lead to big improvements.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Florida Suspends Abortion Clinic After Hospitalizations An abortion clinic that serves women from all over the US South had its license suspended this weekend under an emergency order from Florida health officials after two women were hospitalized this year.
  Associated Press, May 23, 2022
• Air Force Cadets Who Refused COVID Vaccine Won't Be Commissioned As of Saturday, the Air Force is the only military academy in which cadets aren't being commissioned because they refused to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022