libera/##covid-19/ Thursday, 2023-06-15

BrainstormNew from New Scientist: 'Smart drugs' don't make people better at a problem-solving test: Some students take medicines like methylphenidate, often sold under the brand name Ritalin, to boost their performance before an exam, but research shows these drugs don't [... want %more?] → https://www.newscientist.com/article/2378272-smart-drugs-dont-make-people-better-at-a-problem-solving-test/00:19
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: Scores of Critical Lab Tests Fall Into a Regulatory Void. The FDA Is Trying to Close It.: by Anna Clark ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. After decades of intense debate [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-moves-to-regulate-lab-developed-tests01:18
-Bridgestorm- ⭕ Lindol! Earthquake! 6.2 M tremor, registered by GFZ, occurred 8 minutes ago (02:19:17 UTC), during daytime, on land, Abra de Ilog, Philippines (13.53, 120.63) likely felt 330 km away (in Batangas, Abra de Ilog, Mamburao, Calatagan, Paluan, Balayan…) by 4.7 million people - important: https://twitter.com/BrainstormBot/status/1659925759237017607 (www.seismicportal.eu)04:28
BrainstormNew from Science Daily: Building a new vaccine arsenal to eradicate polio: Despite some of the most successful international vaccination campaigns in history, the poliovirus continues to circulate around the world, posing a threat of neurological damage and even paralysis to anyone who is not vaccinated. → https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230614220021.htm04:38
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Seven days in medicine: 7-13 June 2023: Covid-19mRNA vaccines are safe for children, study findsNo indication of myocarditis was seen from 245 000 doses of the mRNA covid-19 vaccines given to young children, mostly under 5 years old, showed US research published in Pediatrics.1 The study, conducted by Kaiser [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1339.short08:47
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: Medicine: Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Jcovden (previously COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen), COVID-19 vaccine (Ad26.COV2-S [recombinant]), COVID-19 virus infection, Date of authorisation: 11/03/2021, Revision: 29, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/jcovden-previously-covid-19-vaccine-janssen10:32
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: Out of Balance: by Lisa Song , with additional reporting by Jaime Yaya Barry for ProPublica , and photography by Kathleen Flynn , special to ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/biodiversity-offsets-guinea-world-bank-group-chimpanzees-outbreak11:59
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Covid inquiry: What is it investigating and how will it work?: The inquiry into the UK government's handling of the pandemic has held its first public hearings. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-5708596412:47
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: Medicine: Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Bimervax, COVID-19 Vaccine (recombinant, adjuvanted), COVID-19 virus infection, Date of authorisation: 30/03/2023, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/bimervax13:24
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Improving critical care flow: admissions, discharges, and systemic pressures: The covid-19 pandemic brought to the public’s attention how important critical care services are to modern healthcare. The scramble to rapidly upscale UK critical care bed capacity was avoidable. Better staffed bed capacity in [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1363.short16:37
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Health: Suicides and homicides among young Americans jumped early in the pandemic, study says → https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/15/suicides-youth-cdc/17:44
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): SARS-Cov2 Infections in Immunocompromised Patients → https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0590538018:03
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: ‘Taking Paternalism Out of the Conversation’ to Enable Better Health Discussions: The American College of Physicians (ACP) CEO says it is important for physicians to move away from this traditional approach to transition to an [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/-taking-paternalism-out-of-the-conversation-to-enable-better-health-discussions18:42
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: COVID-19 Vaccines Should Be Monovalent and Contain the XBB Strain, FDA Committee Recommends: The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) unanimously voted 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccines [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/covid-19-vaccines-should-be-monovalent-and-contain-the-xbb-strain-fda-committee-recommends22:22
BrainstormNew from StatNews: FDA advisers endorse updating Covid vaccines to target latest Omicron strain: On Thursday, the FDA's scientific advisers said the next round of Covid vaccines in the U.S. should only include protection against the newest variants that are now [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/15/fda-advisers-endorse-updating-covid-vaccines-to-target-latest-omicron-strain/23:19
BrainstormNew from Novavax: (news): Novavax Prepared to Deliver Protein-based Monovalent XBB COVID Vaccine Consistent with FDA VRBPAC Recommendation for the Fall → https://ir.novavax.com/2023-06-15-Novavax-Prepared-to-Deliver-Protein-based-Monovalent-XBB-COVID-Vaccine-Consistent-with-FDA-VRBPAC-Recommendation-for-the-Fall23:39

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