Marcia Frellick

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Lego introduces first character with vitiligo

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: November 9, 2022

In May 2022, Mattel released a Ken doll with vitiligo after a Barbie with vitiligo was released in 2020.

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Surgical site dressing turns blue when it needs changing

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: November 7, 2022

“It’s a lot to put on a layperson to suddenly know how to take care of wounds when you leave the hospital.” Giving patients the confidence that the...

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Numbers of adolescents who vape within 5 minutes of waking jumps

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: November 7, 2022

Researchers point to a more addictive kind of nicotine in modern e-cigarettes and advise clinicians to ask patients about all nicotine and tobacco ...

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Access to abortion clinics declines sharply

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: November 2, 2022

The percentage of reproductive-age women who live more than an hour from an abortion facility has doubled since this summer’s Supreme Court ruling....

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Kidney function may help docs pick antiplatelet mix after stroke

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 31, 2022

Ticagrelor–aspirin compared with clopidogrel-aspirin reduced risk for recurrent stroke with no substantial increase in severe or moderate bleeding,...

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Has the pandemic affected babies’ brain development?

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 28, 2022

A large study finds that generally, brain development in infants ages 6-12 months old was not changed by the pandemic, but two areas raised concern...

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Life expectancy 6.3 years shorter for Black MSM with HIV

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 25, 2022

“If you can find effective interventions, the effect can be incredibly large. These are very large differences in life-years and life expectancies....

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Updated Moderna booster shows greater activity against COVID in adults

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 24, 2022

Additionally, no new safety concerns emerged.

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25 years of chickenpox vaccine: 91 million cases prevented

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 24, 2022

“The declines in deaths, let alone hospitalizations, were jaw-dropping. I hadn’t really seen a synthesis of the impact of one and two doses.”

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Monkeypox presentations, prevention strategies shifting

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 21, 2022

There’s been a demographic shift in infections from White, non-Hispanic men early on to non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic men.

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C. diff recurrence drops with highly targeted ridinilazole

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 21, 2022

“We need new agents to treat C. difficile.”

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Cleaning indoor air ‘next frontier’ for COVID, public health

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 13, 2022

“We need something akin to the Clean Air Act for indoor air quality,” said Dr. Richard Corsi.

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Pregnant, postpartum women with disabilities at higher risk for violence

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 11, 2022

Those with a history of interpersonal violence and a physical disability were at particularly high risk for perinatal violence.

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Three COVID scenarios that could spell trouble for the fall

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 10, 2022

Experts predict different scenarios, some more dire than others.

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Models stratify hysterectomy risk with benign conditions

Author:: Marcia Frellick

Publish date: October 2, 2022

Adhesions were most predictive of complications. However, an expert says the models miss some important factors that drive outcomes, such as surgeo...