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Dec 31, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Esther K. Choo
Dec. 31, 2024, 8:07 PM UTCIn the health and medicine field, 2024 will be remembered for advancements in the prevention of HIV, a notable drop in the rate of obesity in the U.S., the murder of an insurance company CEO that unveiled the frustrations from Americans denied recommended medical treatments, and multiple attempts to supplant medical expertise with political maneuvering. The drug was named Science magazine’s 2024 “Breakthrough of the Year” for its remarkable efficacy.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Esther K. Choo
At New Orleans’ Tulane University last week, President Joe Biden announced the awarding of $150 million for cancer research through Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), another accomplishment of his “Cancer Moonshot.” The award will go to eight teams around the country for projects that aim to improve the methods by which surgeons remove cancerous tumors.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Esther K. Choo
In oral arguments on Wednesday, the state of Idaho told the Supreme Court that the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) doesn’t protect the actions of emergency care practitioners from the state’s abortion ban — even when abortion is the medically indicated treatment. In making its argument, Idaho made multiple statements that I found troubling, especially as an emergency medicine physician practicing in a neighboring state.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Esther K. Choo
In oral arguments on Wednesday, the state of Idaho told the Supreme Court that the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) doesn’t protect the actions of emergency care practitioners from the state’s abortion ban — even when abortion is the medically indicated treatment. In making its argument, Idaho made multiple statements that I found troubling, especially as an emergency medicine physician practicing in a neighboring state.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Esther K. Choo
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
msnbc.com | Esther K. Choo
In 2000, thanks to an effective vaccine with high uptake, the U.S. achieved a rare public health victory: zero cases of endemic measles transmission. But measles has persisted, with repeated outbreaks over the years, and it is having a big comeback. In the U.S., 23 cases of measles were reported over less than eight weeks in December and January, including seven cases brought in by international travelers and two outbreaks each involving more than five people.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
msnbc.com | Esther K. Choo
On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the latest Covid vaccines, updated to protect against current strains of the coronavirus. The following day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that the vaccines be available for anyone over the age of 6 months. These are the first Covid vaccines to be released through the commercial market.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
msnbc.com | Esther K. Choo
"Covid's back on the board," a colleague said to me recently as he signed out at the end of his emergency room shift and I signed in at the beginning of mine. This summer, we saw the since we started regularly celebrating the presumed end of the pandemic. Those numbers fell to 6,300 hospitalizations and 500 deaths a week. But things didn't stay there long. Throughout the past month, Covid cases have been.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
msnbc.com | Esther K. Choo
When my mother-in-law was diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia a decade ago, we scoured the medical literature in hopes of a breakthrough. Finding a clinical trial we could enroll her in seemed a heck of a lot more productive than spending our emotional and mental energy watching as her reality shifted away from our reality, and we gradually lost the person at the heart of our extended family.
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Apr 26, 2023 | 
bmj.com | Anne Sosin |Esther K. Choo |Martha Lincoln
News & ViewsThe covid public... The covid public health emergency is ending: it now joins the ordinary emergency that is American health
Opinion BMJ 2023; 381 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p949 Cite this as: BMJ 2023;381:p949 Anne N. Sosin, policy fellow1, Esther Choo, professor2, Martha Lincoln, assistant professor of Anthropology31Nelson A.
