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The Perelman School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will co-direct a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prevention Epicenter site to help develop and test new methods to prevent infections in health care. The Epicenter will be co-led by Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE, and Jeffrey Gerber, MD, PhD, MSCE.
New York Magazine assesses the effectiveness of at-home fertility tests, what they reveal about a woman's ovarian reserve, and what critical information they might miss. “I understand the desire to characterize [fertility] with a test, but I also think it's such a sophisticated, complicated thing to capture that it needs to be treated as such,” says Samantha Butts, MD, MSCE.
Current health laws may stop low-income patients from getting vital screenings for colon cancer, according to a commentary co-authored by Chyke A. Doubeni, MD, MPH.
Research from David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, and colleagues is highlighted in The Atlantic. Their recent paper shed light on a previously unidentified source of disparity in liver transplantation: transplant centers vary widely in the organs they accept, leaving many of the sickest patients to die while awaiting a life-saving organ.
HealthDay News reports on new research from David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, which showed that it's common for a U.S. transplant center to reject donor livers for the sickest patients on its transplant waiting list.
STAT highlights the first-in-the-world clinical trials that involve transplantation of hepatitis C positive kidneys into hepatitis C negative recipients. Peter Reese, MD, is quoted.