— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today‘s press reporters
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MedPage Today Staff
January 7, 2024
“It was extremely clear simply over the last ten years … we required to do something various.”– AnnaMarie Connolly, MD, chief of education and scholastic affairs at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, on next season’s modifications made to the application procedure for ob/gyn residency programs.
“Legislative efforts on a more local/state level is where the rubber satisfies the roadway.”– Elizabeth Dineen, DO, of Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, raising awareness for heart attack following Buffalo Bills security Damar Hamlin’s collapse throughout a football video game.
“The issue is more complex than was formerly believed.”– Joel Kaufman, MD, MPH, of the University of Washington in Seattle, discovering that switching cleaner cookstove fuel throughout pregnancy didn’t enhance baby health.
“There’s been a great deal of speculation on the number of kids have signs after COVID.”– Elizabeth Schlaudecker, MD, MPH, of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, talking about the rate of post-COVID-19 conditions in kids.
“Our price quote of $70 billion in inpatient expenses for 2 years of the pandemic is more than double the U.S. financial investments made to establish vaccines.”– Kandice Kapinos, PhD, of the RAND Corporation in Virginia, on the boost in medical facility expenses for inpatient COVID-19 treatment surpassing the rate of medical inflation.
“I hope this research study will decrease physicians’ issues when recommending GLP-1 receptor agonist glucose-lowering medications to their clients.”– Rachel Dankner, MD, MPH, of Sheba Medical Center in Israel, clearing GLP-1 receptor agonists of pancreatic cancer danger
“Clinicians need to inquire about relentless signs and not exclusively associate brand-new signs to clients’ pre-existing special needs.”– Benjamin Abramoff, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, going over long COVID signs in individuals with neurological impairments.
“We’re simply attempting to pursue the folks who remained in positions of trust, who faltered.”– David Slossberg, JD, a Connecticut attorney, representing previous trainees of a now-shuttered for-profit nursing school in Connecticut
“It sounds to me like xylazine producers, suppliers, and veterinarians will be exempt from all the laws that use to Schedule III drugs.”– Andrew Kolodny, MD, of Brandeis University in Massachusetts, on the veterinary market possibly working carefully with Congress when controling xylazine
“We have actually discovered that including salt to foods at the table is associated with different conditions.”– Lu Qi, MD, PhD, of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, on brand-new research study connecting salt with persistent kidney illness