“The paper’s title tells you that it shouldn’t be published.” — Paul Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, commenting on a retracted study that falsely suggested a link between vaccinations and an increase in sudden infant death syndrome.
“All the stages of grief — shock, bewilderment, disappointment, anger.” — Ronak Shah, MD, of Emergency Medicine of Blue Ridge in Winchester, Virginia, describing the reaction of an emergency medicine group after being terminated and replaced by a private equity-backed physician group.
“You think about where we were 20 years ago — 25 years ago we had nothing, and now we are on the verge of potentially curing the disease.” — Jonathan Bernstein, MD, of the University of Cincinnati, discussing the Phase III results for the hereditary angioedema gene therapy lonvoguran ziclumeran (lonvo-z).
“Your strength is your foundation and it helps build injury resiliency.” — Brian DeVeaux, DPT, of Northwell Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Services and Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, explaining how strength training allows veteran soccer players to compete at the FIFA World Cup level.
“Children who start puberty much earlier than usual should be carefully evaluated so they receive the right care at the right time — without unnecessary tests or treatment.” — Stephanie Roberts, MD, of Boston Children’s Hospital, regarding updated clinical recommendations for managing central precocious puberty in children.
“We don’t know with certainty why the risk of dementia is lower with shingles vaccination, but we have a lot of ideas.” — Kaleen Hayes, PharmD, PhD, of the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island, regarding research linking herpes zoster vaccines to a decreased risk of dementia among residents in skilled-nursing facilities.
