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After Editor-in-Chief's Resignation, JAMA Journals Outline Steps to Address Racism
THURSDAY, June 3, 2021 -- Reacting to recent controversy, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced Thursday a series of steps it will take to promote diversity, equity and inclusion within the medical society and its network of 12... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - June 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects J & J Appeal of $2 Billion Talc Verdict
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request June 1 from Johnson & Johnson to consider overturning a $2.1 billion award to 22 women who blamed the company’s asbestos-contaminated talcum powder products for causing ovarian cancer. With the Supreme Court declining to consider it, a Missouri state court ruling from 2018 that originally awarded $4.69 billion remains in place. A Missouri court of appeals reduced the award in 2020 to $2.1 billion, but also rejected a J&J effort to dismiss the jury verdict. The appeal did not involve the question of whether the products caused cancer. Johnson & Johnson wanted the...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - June 2, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Source Type: news

JAMA Journals Editor-in-Chief Steps Down After Deputy's Racism Comments
TUESDAY, June 1, 2021 -- Because of controversial statements about racism made by a staff member, the editor-in-chief of JAMA and JAMA Network will step down on June 30, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced Tuesday. Howard Bauchner,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - June 1, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Top journal editor to resign in fallout over racism podcast
The embattled chief editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association is resigning amid a probe of his handling of a podcast on racism (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

JAMA Journals' Editor-in-Chief Steps Down After Deputy's Racism Comments
TUESDAY, June 1, 2021 -- Because of controversial statements about racism made by a staff member, the editor-in-chief of JAMA and JAMA Network will step down on June 30, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced Tuesday. Dr. Howard Bauchner,... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - June 1, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

More and More Doctors Abandoning Private Practice More and More Doctors Abandoning Private Practice
The latest biennial analysis of doctors ' practices by the American Medical Association showed an acceleration of a trend away from private practice, defined as a practice wholly owned by physicians.WebMD Health News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - May 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news

Long-COVID-19 Patients Are Getting Diagnosed With Little-Known Illnesses Like POTS
The day Dr. Elizabeth Dawson was diagnosed with COVID-19, she awoke feeling as if she had a bad hangover. Four months later, in February 2021, she tested negative for the virus, but her symptoms have only worsened. Dawson is among what Dr. David Goldstein, head of the National Institutes of Health’s Autonomic Medicine Section, called “waves and waves” of “long-haul” COVID patients who remain sick long after testing negative for the virus. A significant percentage are suffering from syndromes that few doctors understand or treat, primarily postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and ch...
Source: TIME: Health - May 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Cindy Loose / Kaiser Health News Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Fewer Than Half of Physicians Work in Private Practice
MONDAY, May 17, 2021 -- Less than half of physicians now work in private practice, according to a report released by the American Medical Association (AMA). As part of the AMA Policy Research Perspective series, Carol K. Kane, Ph.D., used data... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - May 17, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

American Medical Association Vows to Confront Racism Among Doctors
WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2021 -- The American Medical Association released a plan on Tuesday to confront structural racism inside the organization and the entire U.S. medical establishment. The plan has been in the works for more than a year but has... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - May 12, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Health Highlights: May 12, 2021
American Medical Association Vows to Confront Racism Among Doctors The AMA has released a plan on Tuesday to confront structural racism inside the organization and the entire U.S. medical establishment. The plan has been in the works for over a... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - May 12, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Organ transplant recipients remain vulnerable to COVID-19 even after second vaccine dose
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers show that although two doses of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID 19 -- confers some protection for people who have received solid organ transplants, it's still not enough to enable them to dispense with masks, physical distancing and other safety measures. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 6, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Younger Age at T2DM Onset Linked to Subsequent Dementia Risk
WEDNESDAY, April 28, 2021 -- Younger age at onset of type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk for subsequent dementia, according to a study published in the April 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Claudio... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 28, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

The World ’s Leading Medical Journals Don’t Write About Racism. That’s a Problem
Over the past year, rising deaths from COVID-19, police brutality, anti-Asian hate crimes, and the inequitable damage of climate breakdown, have made the manifold harms of racism easier for everyone to see. Harms that were once shielded from public consumption by segregation or shrouded from public scrutiny by stories depicting the U.S. as a nation of fairness and freedoms, are now the center of an ongoing national confrontation with racism and its impacts on health, safety, and justice. Yet amid growing calls for anti-racism and health equity, troubling reports have emerged highlighting the ways the U.S. health care indus...
Source: TIME: Health - April 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rhea Boyd, Nancy Krieger, Fernando De Maio, and Aletha Maybank Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Black Physicians to AMA:'Get to Work'Black Physicians to AMA:'Get to Work '
Black physicians demand that the American Medical Association take concrete steps to address racism across the organization and in healthcare.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - April 9, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news

NIDCR's Spring 2021 E-Newsletter
Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. NIDCR's Spring 2021 E-Newsletter In this issue: NIDCR News Funding Opportunities & Related Notices NIH/HHS News Subscribe to NICDR News Science Advances Grantee News NIDCR News NIDCR & NIH Stand Against Structural Racism NIDCR Director Rena D’Souza, DDS, MS, PhD, said in a statement that there is no place for structural racism in biomedical research, echoing remarks from NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, in his announcement of a new NIH initiative—called U...
Source: NIDCR Science News - April 7, 2021 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news