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jamanetwork.com | Rita Rubin |Lead Senior
It’s been nearly 30 years since Congress, in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Modernization Act of 1997, instructed the US Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary to consult with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director and the pharmaceutical industry to “review and develop guidance, as appropriate, on the inclusion of women and minorities in clinical trials…” In recent weeks, though, such guidance documents and other information about enrolling patients long underrepresented...
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Nov 1, 2024 |
jamanetwork.com | Rita Rubin |Lead Senior
Everything’s bigger in Texas, residents like to boast, and that includes the number of medical students and residents it trains. Only New York graduates more medical students than Texas, and only New York and California train more resident physicians. Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center touts that its obstetrics and gynecology residency training program is the country’s largest and that 1 out of every 80 US obstetrician-gynecologists is a graduate.
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Oct 25, 2024 |
jamanetwork.com | Rita Rubin |Lead Senior
Add pertussis, or whooping cough, to the list of respiratory infections that plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic and began to surge during its final year. As with the other respiratory infections, pertussis cases, caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis and spread via airborne droplets, likely bottomed out during the pandemic at least in part because of measures taken to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2, such as remote learning.
Researchers Are Exploring the Role of Shingles-and a Protective Role of Shingles Vaccine-in Dementia
Oct 18, 2024 |
jamanetwork.com | Rita Rubin |Lead Senior
The tagline “Shingles Doesn’t Care,” featured in commercials for the only shingles vaccine on the US market, has become such a popular meme that it even crashed this year’s Emmy Awards show. Shingles might not care, but scientists around the globe have begun to care about its possible role in dementia, especially Alzheimer disease.
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Sep 20, 2024 |
jamanetwork.com | Rita Rubin |Lead Senior
In healthy children and adults, parvovirus B19 infection is relatively mild or even asymptomatic. One of its main symptoms in children is erythema infectiosum—the ruddy rash on the cheeks also known as fifth disease. One of the main symptoms of parvovirus B19 infection in children is erythema infectiosum, the bright red rash on the cheeks also known as fifth disease. Dr P.
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