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New NIH Database to Track Neurologic Effects of COVID-19
The NeuroCOVID database will collect clinical data and biospecimens from patients with new or worsening neurologic symptoms related to COVID-19....
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WHO Says Team in Wuhan to Visit Labs, Markets, and Hospitals
A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic will meet Chinese scientists on Friday and plans to visit...
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Can Any Public Hospital Survive?
New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, is an anomaly. It is a publicly owned hospital that boasts good care at lower...
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Cardiometabolic Subspecialty Is 'One-Stop Shop' Approach to Diabetes
A one-stop shop approach to managing the spectrum of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes has taken root in at least two US medical...
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How the CARES Act Forgot America's Most Vulnerable Hospitals
COVID-19 relief was meant to give a lifeline to hospitals. But in states like Oklahoma, problems created by confusing guidelines could cause harm...
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Gaps in Data Make It Impossible to Know Who Got the Vaccine
The gaps could mean that well-connected people and health personnel who have no contact with patients are getting vaccines before front-line...
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Neprilysin, Corin May Help Guide Heart Failure Therapy
In patients with chronic heart failure (HF), increased levels of neprilysin and corin correlate with increased risk for cardiovascular death and HF...
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Expert Highlights Advances in DRESS
Mounting evidence suggests it's a mistake to reject the diagnosis of drug reaction with DRESS because the interval between initiating a drug and...
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Is the EDSS an Adequate Measure in Secondary Progressive MS?
Results from a new analysis suggest the EDSS may be a noisier or more variation-prone measure of MS disease progression than two other widely used...
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Biden Nixes Buprenorphine Waiver, Docs Disappointed
The Biden administration has scuppered the Trump administration's proposal to ease buprenorphine restrictions, saying it would look for other ways...
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J&J Vaccine 85% Efficacious Against Severe COVID Globally
Despite a lower overall efficacy vs the mRNA vaccines, officials point out the Janssen vaccine prevented most severe disease and all...
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Higher Intensity Therapy and Surgical Risk in Esophageal Cancer
Combining standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced esophageal cancer with either radiation or docetaxel did not increase the risk of...
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Prostate Cancer Drug Equally Effective in Black and White Men
The first randomized clinical trial comparing bicalutamide with enzalutamide in a substantial number of Black patients shows equal results with...
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Maternal COVID Antibodies Cross Placenta, Detected in Newborns
The findings provide insight into how long maternal antibodies may last and potentially offer support for maternal COVID-19 vaccination, which...
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Jury's Still Out on Trifluridine/Tipiracil Plus Bev in mCRC
First-line trifluridine/tipiracil plus bevacizumab offered a slight survival benefit over capecitabine plus bevacizumab in patients with...
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Brief High-Dose Saccharin Seems Safe, but Jury Out on Long-Term Use
'Artificial sweeteners used on a conservative basis may not be as harmful as supposed, but we just don't know,' says one scientist. Another urges...
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Rapid Shifts in Radiotherapy for Cancer in Response to COVID-19
The first wave of COVID-19 reduced the number of radiotherapy treatments delivered in England, but it also rapidly changed the way in which it was...
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Obesity 'Clearly' Not Tied to Worse Survival in MBC
For the first time, a large multicenter study explores the effects of obesity on outcomes among patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC)....
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Breast Cancer Gene Mutations Found in 30% of All Women
Gene mutations associated with breast cancer even in women who do not have a history of the disease offer a new way of estimating risk and may lead...
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New Study: COVID-19 Could Damage Sperm, but Experts Query Results
Markers of inflammation and oxidative stress, as well as reduced sperm quality, suggest the male reproductive system is vulnerable to COVID-19,...
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Higher Dietary Fiber Tied to Lower Depression Risk in Young Women
Higher fiber intake may be associated with decreased risk of depression in premenopausal women, new research suggests. Medscape Medical News
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Study Flags Cardiovascular Disease in Men With Breast Cancer
Risk factors for heart disease were also elevated, highlighting the need for early involvement of cardiologists in this unique but growing...
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Family Medicine Residencies Increasingly Eschew Pharma Influence
Two thirds of family medicine residency programs that responded to a new survey report they have eliminated pharmaceutical industry influence....
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Lung Disease Raises Mortality Risk in Older RA Patients
RA-associated interstitial lung disease has been associated with worse survival rates as well as reduced quality of life, functional impairment,...
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CDC: 20% of People in the US Are Infected With an STD
Among the more than 320 million people in the United States, there was a prevalence estimate of 67.6 million sexually transmitted infections at the...