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The article focuses on the health risks associated with plastics, highlighting their manufacture from fossil fuels and the detrimental effects of plastic additives on human health and the environment. It discusses the escalating production and disposal of plastics, leading to widespread contamination, and cites a study linking microplastics and nanoplastics to cardiovascular outcomes, indicating a pressing need to address the hazards posed by plastics.

The article reports that after several months without local transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in China, an outbreak alarm was triggered on October 11, 2020 when several cases of Covid-19 were reported in Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong Province. Topics include examines that initial epidemiologic evidence suggested that all cases were linked to Qingdao Chest Hospital, the hospital stopped admitting new patients and provide outpatient services.

The article argues on the treatment of patients with Mild Asthma. Topics include recommendations for the use of short-acting β-2-agonists (SABAs) for the treatment, treatment of persistent asthma with a long-acting muscarinic antagonist in patients who do not have eosinophilic airway inflammation, use of a budesonide-formoterol combination is as effective as budesonide maintenance therapy in the prevention of exacerbations.

An editorial is presented which discusses the drugs that could be used to treat early stage chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.

The article focuses on the online medical resource launched by the collaboration between the professional organization New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Group and Shanghai, China-based Jiahui Medical Research and Education (JMRE). Topics discussed include the archive of key NEJM and NJEM Journal Watch articles added in the online and the featured topics of the journal articles such as cancer and cardiovascular disease.

The author reflects on the effect of early consumption of foods that can cause allergy in infancy such as egg, peanut and fish. The author states the Learning Early about Peanut Allergy (LEAP) trial on enquiring about tolerance (EAT) in breast-fed infants from the general population. An overview on the introduction of allergenic foods and assessment in children, is also provided.