Raoul urges Supreme Court to uphold state authority to ban conversion therapy
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has joined colleagues to urge the Supreme Court to uphold states’ rights to prohibit licensed healthcare professionals from practicing conversion therapy on minors.
Raoul requests FDA remove restrictions on access to mifepristone
Attorney General Kwame Raoul and more than a dozen colleagues this week urged the Trump administration to remove restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone.
Raoul sues HHS over sharing of Medicaid data with deportation officials
Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined colleagues Tuesday to sue the Department of Health and Human Services over sharing the state’s Medicaid data with the Department of Homeland Security to support the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
Illinois Congressional Democrats ask Kennedy Jr. to stop sharing Medicaid data with Trump deportation officials
Six Illinois Congressional Democrats joined colleagues this week to urge Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. to stop sharing the state’s Medicaid data with the Department of Homeland Security to support the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
How a common food ingredient can take a wrong turn, leading to arthritis
A University of Colorado Department of Medicine faculty member says she and her colleagues have identified the means in which bacteria in the digestive system can break down tryptophan in the diet into an inflammatory chemical that primes the immune system towards arthritis. The research was co-authored by Kristine Kuhn, MD, PhD, Scoville Endowed Chair […]
Twin research indicates that that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health
In a study with 22 pairs of identical twins, Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues have found that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health in as little as eight weeks. Although it’s well-known that eating less meat improves cardiovascular health, diet studies are often hampered by factors such as genetic differences, upbringing and lifestyle choices. […]
A Medical Student, a Dying JFK, and ‘Destiny’: What a Young Doctor Saw 60 Years Ago
Sixty years ago, at the age of just 25, a fourth-year medical student named Joe Goldstrich helped colleagues treat the stricken president of the U.S. in a Dallas emergency department. Then he kept quiet for 3 decades. “I was afraid,” Goldstrich recalled. He finally spoke up in a 1993 book and opened up even more […]
Opinion | When Was the Last Time You Wore a White Coat?
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to dominate all aspects of healthcare, many of our colleagues opted to wear scrubs instead of their routine work attire and white coats. They cited concerns about personal infectious risk and not wanting to bring the virus home to their loved ones on their clothes. This reluctance aligned with research […]
A novel COVID-19 vaccine using modified bacterial DNA: Experimental vaccine based on altered plasmid DNA produced antibody response in mice that effectively blocked cell infection across all variants of concern tested
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues elsewhere, describe a different way to build a COVID-19 vaccine, one that would, in theory, remain effective against new and emerging variants and could be taken as a pill, by inhalation or other delivery methods. Their findings publish in the July 21, 2022 […]
Researchers develop rapid COVID-19 test to identify variants in hours: Determining patient’s strain previously required lengthy whole genome sequencing
Last year, pathologist Jeffrey SoRelle, M.D., and colleagues developed CoVarScan, a rapid COVID-19 test that detects the signatures of eight hotspots on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Now, after testing CoVarScan on more than 4,000 patient samples collected at UT Southwestern, the team reports in Clinical Chemistry that their test is as accurate as other methods used […]