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Biden asks intelligence community to intensify investigation of COVID origins

Yahoo! Finance May 26, 2021
Esther Choo, M.D., speaks about various COVID-related topics, including vaccine waivers, vaccination rates and the origin of the virus: "I want to be really clear that much of the speculation around laboratory origins has been just that, speculation, not credible evidence, just a lot of fear and hypothesizing."

Best life: What you need to know about the sun

WMC-TV May 25, 2021
In a story noting that May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D., says: “I can’t tell you how many young women I’ve had come in with melanoma or more than one melanoma who have been victims of the suntan salon trend.”

OHSU to expand tumor board program after seeing benefits in breast cancer patients

Precision Oncology News May 24, 2021
OHSU’s Serial Measurements of Molecular and Architectural Responses to Therapy, or SMMART, program is expanding its multiomics precision cancer management approach to more types of cancer; Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D., says: “If you're going to understand what is truly happening, you need to be able to capture what is going on in the tumor pre-therapy, with a deep analysis of DNA, RNA, and protein, and then following therapy.”

‘Gray area’ drinking is not a medical diagnosis, but experts say it can still be a problem. What is it and what are the signs?

USA Today News May 24, 2021
In a story about pandemic-related alcohol consumption, Jessica Gregg, M.D., describes the “gray area” of borderline unhealthy drinking habits: “Someone’s not so far into their drinking that their body is dependent … they’re not in the severe end of the spectrum but they are drinking in a way that makes their life worse as opposed to better.”
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