PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. No boosters, no tetanus shots. His parents taught him inoculations were dangerous, and when the coronavirus arrived, they called it a hoax. The vaccine, they said, was the real threat. So when the 29-year-old Tennessee man…
New Guidance on Personalized Exercise for BP Control
Recommendations for prescribing exercise to control high blood pressure have been put forward by various medical organizations and expert panels, but finding the bandwidth to craft personalized exercise training for their patients poses a challenge for clinicians. Now, European cardiology societies have issued a consensus statement that offers an algorithm…
COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Could Mean More Deaths, Long Restrictions
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Even as millions of Americans flock to be vaccinated against COVID-19, there’s a pressing question on the flip side of these lines and hard-to-find appointments — how many people will decide, ultimately, not to get a…
‘Alarm Bells’: Brazil’s COVID-19 Chaos Sparks Fear, Countermeasures From Neighbors
MONTEVIDEO/BUENOS AIRES/ASUNCION (Reuters) – When the Copa America basketball tournament got underway last month in the midst of a pandemic, the hosts in Cali, Colombia took no chances. Players and staff from participating men’s national teams from around Latin America lived in a local “bubble” without contact with outsiders; all…
Doctor Sues Med School for Discrimination
A physician who was removed from her faculty position at Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine (KPSOM) shortly after leading a classroom discussion about racism in medicine last summer has now sued the school for discrimination. Dr Aysha Khoury Aysha Khoury, MD, MPH, a Black female physician, was suspended from teaching…
Kids with autism in UK detained in
A British Parliamentary committee says many people with autism or learning disabilities are being detained in “horrific” conditions and is calling for an overhaul of the system intended to evaluate their treatment. The Joint Committee on Human Rights said in a report issued Friday that it heard “grim” evidence about…
Tennessee lawmakers mull passing strict abortion ban
Tennessee lawmakers said Monday they are considering whether to seek one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans even as such laws continue to be struck down in court. At issue is a proposal to prohibit abortion once a pregnancy is detected. While a similar bill stalled in the Republican-controlled Statehouse…
National effort urged to overhaul ‘broken’ health data system: Experts say data privacy laws don’t do enough to protect people
Our system for protecting health data in the United States is fundamentally broken and we need a national effort to rethink how we safeguard this information, say three experts in data privacy. In a perspective article in the April 18, 2019, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the…