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  • CE Certification Given To Lunit INSIGHT CXR Chest X-Ray Analysis Solution

    AI in Healthcare (11/20, Walter) reports South Korea-based Lunit medical software company “has gained CE certification for its newest chest x-ray analysis solution, Lunit INSIGHT CXR.” AI technology is used by the solution “to identify a total of 10 chest...
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  • Review Study Says That Fluconazole Is The Only Oral Therapy For Systemic Efficacy In Cutaneous Candidiasis Supported By Evidence

    Dermatology Advisor (11/20, Peckel) reports researchers conducted a review study and concluded that “the only commercially available oral therapy with evidence-based support for systemic efficacy in cutaneous candidiasis is fluconazole.” In the study publ...
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  • Caspofungin May Be More Effective For Antifungal Prophylaxis In Younger Patients With AML Undergoing Chemotherapy, Study Indicates

    Oncology Nurse Advisor (11/20, Moench) reports the results of a phase 3 trial published in JAMA compared “antifungal prophylaxis with caspofungin vs fluconazole in children and adolescents undergoing chemotherapy for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemi...
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  • Scientists Say Some Soup Broths Might Block Growth Of Malaria Parasites

    Reuters (11/20, Carroll) reports “scientists have discovered that certain soup broths passed down from generation to generation might aid in battling malaria by interrupting the life cycle of the deadly parasite.” The article says that “British researcher...
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  • Multistate Hepatitis A Cases Traced To Blackberries Sold In Fresh Thyme Grocery Stores, Officials Say

    The AP (11/20) reports “Nebraska and federal health officials say a hepatitis A outbreak that includes Nebraska, Indiana and Wisconsin has been traced to blackberries sold in Fresh Thyme grocery stores.” Food Safety News (11/20) and the Omaha (NE) World-H...
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  • Georgia Measles Outbreak Linked To Family Of Five, State Health Officials Say

    Fox News (11/20, Farber) reports on its website that a family of five “is likely the source of a recent measles outbreak in Georgia, state health officials recently announced.” The family, which “was not named in a Monday news release from the Georgia Dep...
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  • Investigators Document Two Cases Of Neovaginal Chlamydia In Transgender Women Who Had Undergone Vaginoplasty

    Healio (11/20, Stulpin) reports investigators “documented what are believed to be the first reported cases of neovaginal chlamydia in two transgender women who had recently undergone vaginoplasty.” The findings were published online in Open Forum Infectio...
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  • Hawaii State Health Officials Confirm Dengue Fever In Kahului Resident

    The Maui (HI) News (11/20, Tanji) reports the state Department of Health “has confirmed that a person in Kahului had imported dengue fever into the state after a trip abroad.” DOH spokeswoman Janice Okubo “said the person is no longer infectious, but the...
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  • Ebola Outbreak In DRC Continues To Decline With Fewer New Cases, WHO Says

    CIDRAP (11/20, Schnirring) reports last week, “a steady decline in the number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak continued.” The WHO reported “just nine new cases reported from three health zones;” however, “a new illnes...
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  • Hospitals Plan Legal Challenge Against Health-Pricing Disclosure Rule

    The Wall Street Journal (11/20, Mathews, Subscription Publication) reports that the hospital industry is planning a legal challenge to block the Trump Administration’s new health-pricing disclosure rule, which would require the disclosure of secret rates...
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  • New California Law Aims To Expand Access To HIV Prevention Drugs

    Kaiser Health News (11/20, Kreidler) reports a new California law aims to increase access to HIV prevention drugs by eliminating mandatory appointments to receive prescriptions and prohibiting insurers “from requiring prior authorization for the drugs.” B...
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  • NIAID Director Calls For Public Health Defense Against EEE

    MedPage Today (11/20, Walker) reports Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the NIAID, and two colleagues wrote a perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine warning of the threat posed by eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus. Fauci and his c...
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  • Drug-Resistant Superbug Fungus Candida Auris Reported In Fourteen States

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (11/18, Clanton) reports the drug-resistant superbug fungus Candida auris “continues to spread around the world and has now been reported in 14 states, including Georgia.” As of this month, “the CDC has confirmed 806 cases...
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  • Prostate Conference Takes Up Question Of Which Genes To Test And How To Counsel Patients At Risk Of Inherited Disease

    OncLive (11/18, Narozniak) reports “the key messages that emerged from the 2019 Philadelphia Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference” were that although there have been “many advancements in understanding the role of germline mutations in prostate cancer, a...
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  • Study Suggests Machine Learning Algorithm May Provide Better Objective Assessment Of Psoriasis Than Traditional Techniques

    Dermatology Advisor (11/18, May) reports a study published in the Journal of European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology suggests that “a machine learning algorithm may provide greater objective assessment of psoriasis than traditional tools, such as...
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  • Maternal Viremia May Predict Fetal Infection And Neonatal Outcomes For Women With CMV Infection During Pregnancy, Study Indicates

    Infectious Disease Advisor (11/18, van Paridon) reports researchers found that “maternal viremia predicted fetal infection and neonatal outcome of infants of women with a primary cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection during pregnancy.” The findings were publish...
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  • Women With Diabetes Appear To Have A Much Higher Risk Of Heart Failure Than Women Without Diabetes, Research Suggests

    HealthDay (11/18) reports, “Diabetes might be more deadly for women than men, at least when it comes to heart troubles,” research indicated. The study found that “women with diabetes have a five times higher risk of heart failure than women without diabet...
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  • Study Identifies Telomerase In Plants

    CNN (11/18, Lamotte) reports on a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal that “identified in the plant kingdom the ‘missing link’ of cellular immortality between human and single-celled animals.” Co-author Dr. Julia...
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  • China Releases Most Close Contacts Of Two Quarantined Patients With Pneumonic Plague From Medical Observation While New Case In Inner Mongolia Prompts New Quarantine

    The Washington Post (11/18, Horton) reports that a 55-year-old man “who killed and ate a wild rabbit on the Mongolian steppe contracted bubonic plague, Chinese health officials said Monday, days after two other people from the same region were diagnosed w...
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  • FDA Grants Qualified Infectious Disease Product Designation And Fast Track To ATM-AVI

    Renal & Urology News (11/18, Park) reports the US Food and Drug Administration “granted Qualified Infectious Disease Product designation and Fast Track designation to ATM-AVI (aztreonam and avibactam; Allergan) for the treatment of complicated intra-abdom...
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