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Healio Gastroenterology and Hepatology presents the following report on recent stories from the Digital NAFLD Summit 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest example of how female leaders can thrive over their male counterparts in crisis situations, a keynote speaker at the virtual Women in Medicine Summit said.

A new report showed that about 15 million Americans who enrolled in Medicaid during the public health emergency could lose coverage when the emergency declaration ends.

Among 410 leading medical journals, just 21% had a woman as editor in chief, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

The FDA recommended health care providers and individuals avoid using compounded products said to be “sterile, produced and distributed nationwide by Prescription Labs Inc.” that does business as Greenpark Compounding Pharmacy.

An international panel of experts reported that non-inhaled medical cannabis or cannabinoids were associated with modest benefits in patients with chronic pain.

Data from FAIR Health, a nonprofit organization that provides information on health care coverage and insurance, indicate that telehealth use may be dropping after skyrocketing in 2020.

This year’s Women in Medicine Summit will be held virtually on Sept. 24 to Sept. 25. The conference identifies barriers that women in medicine face and offers solutions to gender inequity.

HHS recently announced a plan supporting legislation that would allow it to negotiate Medicare Part B and Part D drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies and then make those prices available to other purchasers.

It is estimated that the pharmaceutical industry spent more than $24 billion on prescription drug promotion in 2017.