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The HHS announced that it has finalized a rule that allows the government to interpret sex discrimination based on the definition of the word “sex” as male or female and biology — a move the agency also said “protects and enforces the civil rights of all.”

A review in JAMA Neurology concluded that clinicians should monitor patients with COVID-19 for neurological disorders, but more research is needed to further examine the role of SARS-CoV-2 as a contributor to postinfectious neurologic complications, one of the review’s authors told Healio Primary Care.

As practices begin to re-open and resume full activity across the United States, it is time to take a hard look at the financial impact of the COVID-19 shutdown and how practice owners can mitigate long-term effects.

Malcolm X said, “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. ... Progress is healing the wound that the blow made.” We are physicians, experts on attending to wounds. Yet we have not pulled the knife out the wound of racism. Many among us have not admitted the knife is there. Among those who see it there, many say, “It’s not my job.”

Peter N. Slack, president and CEO of the Wyanoke Group, parent company of Healio, released a statement today saying the company stands with those who work for racial equality.

Despite calls to action, one-third of medical schools still do not offer programs on LGBTQI+ health care, and most educators do not feel prepared to provide such education, according to researchers.

Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, or RT-PCR, yielded a false-negative rate as low as 20% and as high as 100% among patients who were tested for infection with SARS-CoV-2, according to a literature review and pooled analysis published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai created the first algorithm of its kind in the United States to use artificial intelligence, combined with CT imaging of lungs and clinical data, to detect COVID-19, according to a press release.

A model that incorporated a pharmacist into a patient’s office visit increased the mean number of daily check-ins for new patient appointments and all visit-type appointments, according to a retrospective analysis.

I am proud to lead a professional society, the American College of Gastroenterology, that will not stay silent when such horrific acts of hatred and discrimination occur.