Luxury’s Hidden Indian Supply Chain

MUMBAI, India — At the top of a staircase covered in dirt and sequins, several dozen Indian artisans hunched over yards of fabric, using needles to embroider garments for the world’s most powerful fashion brands. They sewed without health benefits in a multiroom factory with caged windows and no emergency exit, where they earned a…

New COVID-19 content from Annals of Internal Medicine

Below please find links to new coronavirus-related content published today in Annals of Internal Medicine. All coronavirus-related content published in Annals of Internal Medicine is free to the public. A compete collection is available at https://annals.org/aim/pages/coronavirus-content. COVID-19: Protecting Hospitals from the Invisible Michael Klompas, MD, MPH Ideas and Opinions FREE full text: //annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M20-0751 Media…

Doctors group sues California for failing to add processed meat to state carcinogen list

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine–a nonprofit with more than 25,000 members in California–filed a lawsuit against the State of California on March 11 for failing to include cancer-causing processed meat–such as hot dogs, bacon, and deli meat–on the state’s list of substances known to cause cancer, as required by Proposition 65. The lawsuit argues…

Immunosuppressive therapy for inflammatory bowel disease does not increase women’s risk of vulvar or vaginal cancer

Oxford, March 11, 2020 – In a new retrospective study, researchers found that the use of immunosuppressive therapy does not increase the occurrence or recurrence of vulvar or vaginal cancer in women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, earlier onset of cancer was reported, and lymphomas were found in some patients, which is very rare…

Sensing infection, suppressing regeneration

In a new peer-reviewed publication, University of Illinois at Chicago researchers describe how the body’s response to inflammation, which helps to fight many kinds of infections, also can counterproductively suppress much-needed cell repair and regeneration in blood vessels. In the study, which is published in Immunity, the researchers describe an enzyme that blocks the ability…