libera/##covid-19/ Thursday, 2023-07-20

BrainstormNew from Outbreak News Today: Australia: Measles Alert for Brisbane: NewsDesk @bactiman63 Metro North Public Health Unit has issued a measles alert following a confirmed case of the highly infectious disease in an adult on Brisbane’s northside. The adult male was unknowingly infectious when he [... want %more?] → http://outbreaknewstoday.com/australia-measles-alert-for-brisbane-63083/00:13
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Associations between self-reported healthcare disruption due to covid-19 and avoidable hospital admission: evidence from seven linked longitudinal studies for England: AbstractObjectivesTo examine whether there is an association between people who experienced disrupted access to healthcare during the [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj-2023-075133.short02:08
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: Covid Inquiry: What have we learnt so far?: The first phase of the Covid Inquiry has come to an end. What have we learnt over the past six weeks? → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-6622317203:04
BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Optimal dose of perineural dexamethasone for the prolongation of analgesia for peripheral nerve blocks: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis: Introduction Perineural use of dexamethasone is demonstrated to extend the analgesia duration of peripheral nerve blocks (PNB), but its optimal [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/13/7/e07259805:07
BrainstormNew from EMA: What's new: Medicine: Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Comirnaty, tozinameran,riltozinameran and tozinameran,famtozinameran and tozinameran,COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine (nucleoside modified), COVID-19 virus infection, Date of authorisation: 21/12/2020, Revision: 42, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/comirnaty10:02
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Health: A Q&A with Gavi’s Seth Berkley on vaccines, Covid, and challenges ahead → https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/20/seth-berkley-gavi-vaccines-covid-interview/10:41
BrainstormNew from NPR Science: New study finds a genetic variant may explain why some get COVID but have no symptoms: NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Dr. Jill Hollenbach, a professor of neurology and epidemiology at UC San Francisco who organized a study of genes [... want %more?] → https://www.npr.org/2023/07/20/1188869658/new-study-finds-a-genetic-variant-may-explain-why-some-get-covid-but-have-no-sym11:10
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Religion and health, and the search for common ground: As a global community we have never been more interconnected. Depressingly, floods and intense heat (doi:10.1136/bmj.p1647) link more and more of us together through shared experience of the climate emergency.1 Polarisation and divisiveness are also growing [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1661.short11:57
BrainstormNew from Johnson&Johnson: Johnson & Johnson Reports Q2 2023 Results: 2023 Second-Quarter reported sales growth of 6.3% to $25.5 Billion with operational growth of 7.5%* and adjusted operational growth of 6.2%*. Operational growth excluding COVID-19 Vaccine of 8.9%*Earnings per share (EPS) of $1.96 increasing 8.9% [... want %more?] → https://www.jnj.com/johnson-johnson-reports-q2-2023-results12:25
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Mpox Cases Could Surge through the Summer: Even if a patient has been vaccinated or previously infected, clinicians should still consider mpox if a patient presents with rash, the paper suggested. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/mpox-cases-could-surge-through-the-summer14:38
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Vir antibody drug aimed at influenza A fails in clinical trial: It’s another setback for Vir in its efforts to build off its success during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the startup developed a blockbuster antibody for early-stage infections. → https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/20/vir-antibody-drug-aimed-at-influenza-a-fails-in-clinical-trial/15:25
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Pharmalittle: Health care mergers facing tougher antitrust scrutiny; tornado hits Pfizer plant and more shortages may result → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2023/07/20/antitrust-mergers-pfizer-shortages-tornado-catalent-pbm-ftc-gsk-cough-syrup/15:36
BrainstormNew from EMA: News and press releases: OPEN framework extended to a wider range of medicines, , 20/07/2023: EMA has expanded the scope of the OPEN initiative from COVID-19 vaccines and treatments to a wider range of medicines, such as medicines with the... → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/open-framework-extended-wider-range-medicines16:43
BrainstormNew from ClinicalTrials.gov: (news): Immunoadsorption vs. Sham Treatment in Post COVID Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome → http://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT0595432517:02
BrainstormNew from StatNews: STAT+: Damages from tornado at Pfizer plant could compound challenges of drug shortages: “It’s hard to know exactly what the impact will be, but this stands to just make things worse,” said Erin Fox, who tracks drug shortages. → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2023/07/20/pfizer-tornado-carolina-shortages-hospitals-injectable-medicines/18:37

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