Hidemi Kajimoto, M.D., is awarded a $5,000 medical training grant from the Heartfelt Dreams Foundation, which seeks to improve congenital heart disease care.

In a story about sudden cardiac arrest risk factors in Latinos, Joaquin Cigarroa, M.D., says health disparities may partly explain why Latinos are more likely to have end-stage kidney disease that requires dialysis: “Hispanics have a high prevalence of diabetes and high blood pressure along with lipid abnormalities. Due to social disparities including lower rates of insurance and access, individuals present later and have complications of diabetes including chronic kidney disease and higher rates of consequent dialysis.”

The Statesman Journal reports that COVID-19 cases in Oregon are on the rise. Peter Graven, Ph.D., says, “You’re not imagining that more of your friends are getting COVID.”

Alyssa Colwill, M.D., discusses the challenges of ensuring residents and medical students can receive adequate training in abortion care: “A lot of programs are grappling with the logistics piece of partnering with another institution to send a resident somewhere else.”

Alyssa Colwill, M.D., discusses the challenges of ensuring residents and medical students can receive adequate training in abortion care: “A lot of programs are grappling with the logistics piece of partnering with another institution to send a resident somewhere else.”

Alexandra Sokolova, M.D., discusses the importance of genetic testing in patients with prostate cancer. She says: “It's also important to tell their family members so we can identify those family members who carry the same germline mutation in order to detect cancer early and do some cancer prevention strategy for both men and women.”

Megan Burger, Ph.D., was awarded the Lung Cancer Discovery Award from the American Lung Association Research Institute to study T cell function and better understand how these cells interact with lung cancer. Burger says: “Our work focuses on the design of therapeutic cancer vaccines that we hope will provide a more effective treatment option for lung cancer patients.”

Research by Madeline McDougal, M.P.H., Aluko A. Hope, M.D., others finds that after people are hospitalized for COVID-19, those who lose a job or have difficulty paying bills are more likely to also have sleep problems. McDougal and Hope say “both financial stresses and sleep problems persisted 1 year after” patients were hospitalized.

In a story about the FDA not approving the drug patisiran for transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis while citing a need for more data about its clinical meaningfulness for the condition, Ahmad Masri, M.D., says one clinical trial’s efficacy data is limited and that “we remain excited to see results” from two other drugs being developed for the same condition.

In an article from The Cut, Leo Han, M.D., says while COVID vaccines are known to affect the menstrual cycle, there are many other factors that could be at play: “Bottom line with the menstrual cycle that I really want to emphasize is that there is a lot of natural variation that occurs.”