The hot flashes and night sweats of menopause don't play out the same for all women, new research shows. Mary Sammel, ScD, suggested in HealthDay that the findings could help women know what to expect in general. “The patterns are more varied than we thought,” Sammel said.

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.