“Respiratory viruses, like COVID-19, the flu and RSV, will continue to pose a challenge this holiday season,” said Bisola Ojikutu MD MPH FIDSA, commissioner of Public Health and executive director of Boston Public Health Commission. 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 National Cancer Institute, 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 Tufts Medical Center and Tufts School of Medicine. 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 March of Dimes President and CEO Dr. Elizabeth Cherot. ow.ly/opHB50Q8Z5u

“We are, overall, a very healthy state,” said Mass. Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein (he/him). “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