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“Respiratory viruses, like COVID-19, the flu and RSV, will continue to pose a challenge this holiday season,” said @OjikutuBisola, commissioner of Public Health and executive director of @HealthyBoston. ow.ly/lP6i50Q9U0L

Called the Sturdy Health Cancer & Specialty Care Medical Office Building, the new facility is planned to be three stories tall, spans more than 60,000 square feet and cost $50 million. ow.ly/QsB150Q9TRV

The White House on Friday said it plans to appoint Dr. Kimryn Rathmell as the next director of @theNCI, the federal government’s principal agency for cancer research. ow.ly/wBEB50Q9GM3

Speaker of the House of Delegates Dr. Melody Eckardt kicks off the #MMSInterim2023 HOD Opening Session!

With Americans set to travel for #Thanksgiving, people who’ve been waiting to get a #FluShot should think about acting now, said epidemiologist Alicia Budd, the CDC’s team lead for domestic flu surveillance. ow.ly/9Kvw50Q9E8U

Most adults in the United States are not worried about getting sick with COVID-19 or spreading it over the holidays, a new survey from @KFF found. ow.ly/9YkW50Q9r2f

Americans can order more free COVID-19 tests online for home delivery. The U.S. government is offering to send another round of four at-home virus tests ahead of the typical surge in cases during the winter holiday season. ow.ly/SGu250Q9qXf

Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in death rates, according to a new report. ow.ly/Z4iP50Q9qNu

This 6-part series aligns with the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine's training requirement for physicians and other health care professionals who serve an adult population. massmed.org/ALZ/

Register now for the 2023 MMS Annual Oration — The Science and Art of Making Medical Decisions, featuring Dr. John B. Wong of @TuftsMedicalCtr and @TuftsMedSchool. ow.ly/wqVA50PNjW5

.@AmerMedicalAsson called on insurance companies, employers, and government programs to cover obesity treatments even as many remain reluctant to pay for them, fearing the costs of covering the drugs at a mass scale. ow.ly/bzRT50Q90vy

One of the easiest, most effective ways to support #physicians with #MentalHealth issues, including addiction, is utilizing Physician Health Services. Learn more: ow.ly/Mx1N50PF9CN

The FDA granted marketing approval to a home test for #chlamydia and #gonorrhea on Wednesday, the first such authorization of a home test to detect the two most common sexually transmitted infections in this country. ow.ly/bn8f50Q90qL

The MMS sounded the alarm on Wednesday about the need for more primary care doctors in the region, @MMS_President said she was “deeply concerned” about the patient situation at Mass General Brigham amid the state’s workforce shortage. ow.ly/iIPP50Q8Zfm

There was a “staggering” annual rise in #measles cases and deaths in 2022, according to a new report from the WHO and CDC. ow.ly/7PQJ50Q8Zcy

“This year’s report shows the state of infant and maternal health in the United States remains at crisis-level, with grave disparities that continue to widen the health equity gap,” said @MarchofDimes President and CEO Dr. Elizabeth Cherot. ow.ly/opHB50Q8Z5u

“We are, overall, a very healthy state,” said @MassDPH Commissioner @RobbieForChange. “We are a state with a lot of great health care resources. But we are a state that wants to and will hold ourselves accountable to a much higher level." ow.ly/r63c50Q8Z0a