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The British Medical Association has echoed its calls for doctors to be allowed to rest and recover ahead of tackling the backlog of non-COVID care, following last week’s Queen’s speech to Parliament.
Although 45% of ob/gyns reported some decline in compensation during the pandemic, they earned more income in 2020 than in 2019, according to the 2021 Medscape Ob/Gyn Compensation Report.
The number of laboratory-confirmed cases of pertussis in England fell by 98 percent in the last three months of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019, dropping from 933 to 20.
Research led by the Centre for Obesity Research at University College London has reported that the experimental drug AM833 delivers significant reductions in body weight and waist circumference.
A study has redefined BMI cutoffs for obesity and determined new thresholds based on type 2 diabetes risk in ethnic minority groups equivalent to a BMI cutoff of 30 in Whites.
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