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Happy Monday – it’s Sarah who comes in. A colleague at one of my old jobs liked to use the ice breaker: “Would you rather be a dog or a spirit?” (H/T Gq.) Perhaps try at your next networking event and report it back on how it goes?
What about the FDA vaccine official
Peter Marks resigned from his position as the best vaccine regulator of the FDA on Friday after Trump officials told him that it was or was fired. Public Health Experts, former FDA commissioners and biotech managers were alerted by Marks’ Ouster and what it forces about the containing of infectious diseases that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s anti-vaccine agenda receive. ‘[I]It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desirable by the secretary, but earlier he wishes a submissive confirmation of his wrong information and lies, ”Marks wrote in his resignation letter and said that Kennedy undermined trust in vaccines in a time when measles -outbravers grow in the US
Read more from a deep bank of Stat reporters about the dismissal and reactions of Marks in the communities for health and life sciences, including the pharmaceutical and biotech -execs that have so far usually stopped about the new administration. From the CEO of OVID Therapeutics: the letter from Marks “indicates that the infrastructure on which we trust to evaluate life-saving medicines, to approve and monitor and to collapse patients against damage.”
Texas measles cases jump 20%
Speaking of measles, the outbreak in Texas gets worse. Officials said they had identified 400 cases from Friday, mainly in the western part of the state, a leap of 20% of 327 cases only a few days prior to March 25. Outbreaks are also underway in New Mexico (44 cases), Kansas (23 cases), Oklahoma (9 cases) and Ohio (10 cases). The CDC defines outbreaks as three or more related cases.
The news comes as the alarm grows among the experts in the field of public health about the reaction of HHS secretary Kennedy to the outbreak, including his suggestion that things like vitamin A and liver oil can be effective treatment for measles. Recent federal cutbacks have consequences for people who follow measles and other infectious diseases, and canceled subsidies include research into the hesitation of vaccine. Read more about the outbreak.
FDA knew the home test for three STDs
Estimated One in five people In the US have a sexually transmitted infection on a certain day. But people can postpone to the doctor’s office to check out, either because of the fear and stigma that is still associated with STDs or other care bazer. Many experts in the field of public health see home tests as a promising way to curb the spread of infections and to help people get the treatment they need-an alternative that made further profit on Friday with the FDA authorization of a home test for chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis from Visby Medical.
The kit, which is intended for women, includes a vaginal cotton swab for collecting a sample and a test device that yields results within 30 minutes and can be purchased without a prescription. The FDA authorization follows its clearance of a home test for Chlamydia and gonorrhea, although that test required people sending their monsters to a laboratory to get results. The desk too authorized A home test for syphilis in 2024.
The differences between the heart of men and women
Heart attacks Looks different in women – Instead of holding their chest, as men do stereotypically, they can experience more diffuse pain that shoots through their jaw, neck, arm, back and stomach. That is just one of the countless sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease that researchers have discovered, from risk factors to the number and function of muscle cells in the heart.
The moment research into women’s health is threatened in the United States as a victim of the Trump government attack on diversity efforts, researchers are afraid that this kind of potentially life -saving progress can be impeded. Read more from Liz Cooney about what we have learned about women and heart disorders in recent years, and where experts say that we must then concentrate.
The end of cadavers in the medical school education
More medical schools are gradually the use of cadavers in favor of virtual reality and other 3D visualization tools. This means that future doctors will lose a valuable education about being comfortable in the presence of death, according to First Opinion Writer and Medical Student Nadir Al-Saidi.
“Face-to-face with a body in that raw state was one of the most powerful moments of my first year at the Medical School,” writes Al-Saidi about an early meeting with a carcass. “It taught me respect and the seriousness of what it means to choose this path in health care.” Read more – and if you want to know more about the long and ethically complicated history of cadavers in medical training and when used such as crash tests, view the book by Mary Roach “Stiffly. “
Rare, his heart deaths fell during marathons
Just in time for Spring Marathons we have one Study published on Sunday in Jama Updating the rare but alarming incidence of sudden cardiac arrest in runners. It is quite rare that someone’s heart will stop beating on the race track, and even rarer that they will die.
Here is the good news: the mortality rate dropped by almost half in a recent case series from 2010 to 2023 compared to the rates that were included in a first study, the decade before that. There were 59 deaths and 117 survivors for a deadliness of the deadly of 34%, a decrease of 71% In the earlier time frame. The incidence was stable, which means more than 29 million competitors in full and half marathons-triple the participants reported in the initial Racer study -Er were 176 cardiac arrest, most among men, most during a marathon and most after the point of 20 miles.
Why the change? The authors point to CPR and AEDs on the course. Every runner in a cardiac arrest was given resuscitation and most had access to a defibrillator to shock their hearts back into rhythm. This brings racer routes on the same footing with airports and casinos for AED availability. – Liz Cooney
What we read
- Utah is the first state to prohibit fluoride in public drinking water, AP
- The confessions of insurance leaders, Magazine in New York
- Peter Marks’ Ouster is an ominous sign for biotech – and for public health, Stat
- ‘He still comes in my nightmares’: how a sinister psychiatrist has placed hundreds of women in deep, drugs caused by drugs, The guardian
- Trump chooses FOX News employee Sara Carter as the next drug Tsar, Stat