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More than half of the 80 000 emergency personnel, volunteers, and recovery and cleanup workers known to have responded to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the crash site near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, have at least 1 certified physical or mental health condition related to their exposures. Pulmonologist David Prezant, MD, chief medical officer for the Fire Department of the City of New York and a professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, shares his 9/11 story and updates us on how the responders are doing 20 years after the events. Related Content: Twenty Years After 9/11, Responders Are Still Healing 9/11 Responders’ Health 20 Years Later, Part 2

FDA’s Approval of New Alzheimer Drug Raises Many Questions; Überantibodies From Recovered COVID-19 Patients Could Spur New Therapeutics and Vaccines; Detecting Kids’ Broken Hearts—Cardiac Screening Advised During Well-Child Visits Related Content: Recently Approved Alzheimer Drug Raises Questions That Might Never Be Answered Überantibodies From Recovered COVID-19 Patients Could Spur New Therapeutics and Vaccines Detecting Kids’ Broken Hearts—Cardiac Screening Advised During Well-Child Visits

The Search for a Single Vaccine Against Coronaviruses Yet to Come; Semaglutide’s Success Could Usher in a “New Dawn” for Obesity Treatment; Confronting High HIV Rates Among Transgender Women With Empowerment and Gender Affirmation. Related Content: The Search for a Single Vaccine Against Coronaviruses Yet to Come Semaglutide’s Success Could Usher in a “New Dawn” for Obesity Treatment Confronting High HIV Rates Among Transgender Women With Empowerment and Gender Affirmation

Community-Based Organizations Step Up to Confront HIV in Southern States; Restrictive Policies Threaten Efforts to Stop 2 West Virginia HIV Outbreaks; Cystic Fibrosis Affects People of All Colors, Not Just Those Who Are White Related Content: Community-Based Organizations Step Up to Confront HIV in Southern States Restrictive Policies Threaten Efforts to Stop 2 West Virginia HIV Outbreaks Cystic Fibrosis Affects People of All Colors, Not Just Those Who Are White

Lung transplantation has become an option of last resort for a small subset of patients with COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or pulmonary fibrosis. Ankit Bharat, MD, chief of Thoracic Surgery and director of Lung Transplant and ECMO at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, discusses his experience performing lung transplants for patients with respiratory failure due to COVID-19, including the first successful double lung transplant in the US for a patient with COVID-19-related ARDS. Related Content: Lung Transplants for COVID-19—The Option of Last Resort

Researchers Tie Severe Immunosuppression to Chronic COVID-19 and Virus Variants; An Inside Look at a Post–COVID-19 Clinic; COVID-19 and the “Lost Year” for Smokers Trying to Quit Related Content: Researchers Tie Severe Immunosuppression to Chronic COVID-19 and Virus Variants An Inside Look at a Post–COVID-19 Clinic COVID-19 and the “Lost Year” for Smokers Trying to Quit

Michigan public officials’ decision to change Flint’s water supply in 2014 created widespread lead contamination in the city’s drinking water. Pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH, revealed the tainted water’s effects on the city’s children during an unusual press conference in 2015. Although it took 7 years, a grand jury handed down indictments against 9 public officials, including Governor Rick Snyder, for their roles in the crisis. JAMA Medical News Associate Managing Editor Jennifer Abbasi recently caught up with Hanna-Attisha to discuss the health of Flint’s children, the future of its water supply, and other pressing public health issues. Related Content: Lead, Mistrust, and Trauma—Whistleblowing Pediatrician Discusses the Legacy of Flint’s Water Crisis

COVID-19 leaves some people with a troubling constellation of symptoms that has been known as long-haul COVID but now has a more formal name: postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Currently, 33 states in the US have at least 1 clinic dedicated to caring for patients with PASC. Aluko Hope, MD, a pulmonary and critical care physician, cofounded the Montefiore-Einstein COVID-19 Recovery Clinic in New York in 2020. Now the medical director of the Long Covid-19 Program at the Oregon Health & Sciences University, Dr Hope provides insight into the care provided at a post-COVID-19 clinic. Related Content: An Inside Look at a Post–COVID-19 Clinic

In this Medical News podcast, Rita Rubin interviews retired neurologist Daniel Gibbs, MD, about his efforts to lessen the stigma surrounding Alzheimer disease, which he was diagnosed with 5 years ago. Related Content: Neurologist Faces His Alzheimer Diagnosis Determined to Lessen Stigma Surrounding the Disease

How Sharing Clinical Notes Affects the Patient-Physician Relationship; Experts Discuss COVID-19—Variants and Vaccine Efficacy, Immunosuppressed Patients, and More; The Push for Timely Follow-up After Abnormal At-home Colon Cancer Screening Results Related Content: How Sharing Clinical Notes Affects the Patient-Physician Relationship Experts Discuss COVID-19—Variants and Vaccine Efficacy, Immunosuppressed Patients, and More The Push for Timely Follow-up After Abnormal At-home Colon Cancer Screening Results