Consider COVID Vax History When Assessing Adenopathy on Mammo
Axillary lymphadenopathy more likely within 14 days after vaccination; persistent axillary lymphadenopathy seen up to 43 weeks later
Medicare Advantage Plans Often Deny Coverage for Eligible, Necessary Care: Report
About 28 million older Americans have Medicare Advantage plans
Food Insecurity Tied to Delayed, Forgone Medical Care
Food insecurity during the pandemic disproportionately affected non-White and low-income individuals
Brain Anomalies ID’d on qMRI in Adolescents Born Extremely Preterm
Atypically developing versus neurotypically developing girls had lower normalized proton density, while boys had longer T1 in white matter
Race May Impact Accuracy of Models Predicting Brain Amyloidosis
Models using plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 to predict probability of CSF Aβ42/Aβ40 positivity not affected by race
Portable MRI Can Detect Infarcts in Patients With Ischemic Stroke
pMRI can capture lesions as small as 4 mm; measurement of stroke volume consistent with low-field pMRI, high-field conventional MRI
Use of Extrapolation Common in FDA New Drug Approvals
Extrapolation of the findings from pivotal clinical trials to the approved indication most common for disease severity
Physician’s Briefing Weekly Coronavirus Roundup
Health Care Employee Turnover Recovering
However, recovery is uneven, particularly among historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups
Less Than Half of U.S.-Based Clinical Trials Report Race/Ethnicity
Median combined enrollment of minority race/ethnicity groups was below corresponding population demographics based on census estimates
