| | | | | | Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Photos of transgender women were falsely portrayed as pictures of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter. ABC News did not publish an altered photo of the Uvalde gunman in which his skin was lightened. Pfizer does not make a vaccine for monkeypox. Monkeypox is also not caused by, or a side effect of, COVID-19 vaccines — nor is it related to a separate viral infection called shingles. | | | | | | FRIDAY, May 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- High levels of burnout are reported by emergency medicine health care professionals, according to a study published online May 26 in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine. | | | | | | The World Health Organization says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as "containable" and proposed creating a stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and drugs available worldwide. During a public briefing on Friday, the U.N. health agency said there are still many unanswered questions about how the current epidemic arose, but there is no evidence that any genetic changes in the virus are responsible for the unprecedented epidemic. | | | | | | FRIDAY, May 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with active and inactive epilepsy are more likely to have Medicaid and other public insurance coverage, and to report an inability to afford prescription medicine, specialty care, or other types of care compared with those without epilepsy, according to research published in the May 27 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. | | | | | | FRIDAY, May 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Autistic traits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) probands correlate with neurodevelopment in younger siblings who go on to develop ASD, according to a study published online May 26 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. | | | | | | Tuesday should have been a day of triumph for 10-year-old Maite Rodriguez. Instead, it was the day she died. Maite was among 19 grade school students and two teachers who were shot to death at Robb Elementary School in the southwestern Texas town of Uvalde. The 18-year-old gunman also died. Maite had always been a straight-A student until the COVID-19 pandemic forced the school to call off in-person classes. Zoom didn't work well for Maite and she got all Fs. But with school back in session, Maite rebounded, achieving all As and Bs. She was among the honor roll students recognized at an assembly Tuesday morning, hours before her death. | | | | | | FRIDAY, May 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The appearance of ovarian lesions on ultrasound may predict the risk for malignancy, according to a study published in the June issue of Radiology. | | | | | | FRIDAY, May 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Most severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections are not asymptomatic and the secondary attack rate is lower for asymptomatic versus symptomatic infections, according to a review published online May 26 in PLOS Medicine. | | | | | | |
