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As CDC Holds the Line, Doctors Debate Lifting School Mask Mandates
Physicians have highly varied views on whether it's the right time to drop masks or whether doing so would set the nation back. Medscape...
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Endovascular Therapy Benefits Stroke With Larger Ischemic Core?
Results of the RESCUE-JAPAN LIMIT trial suggest that endovascular clot removal could be extended to stroke patients with larger areas of brain...
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'Substantial' CVD Risks, Burden Up to a Year After COVID-19
Governments and health systems need to be prepared to deal with the likely significant contribution of the pandemic to a rising burden of...
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Real-World Data Back Stem Cell Transplant for Systemic Sclerosis
In real-world study, stem cell transplant provides major advantages for rapidly progressive systemic sclerosis if strict selection criteria are...
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New Conditions Rise Sharply After COVID-19 Hospitalization
Type 2 diabetes onset, shortness of breath, and fatigue were more common in COVID-19 survivors, especially those with severe illness....
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Stimulant/Opioid OD Deaths Prompt Calls for New Strategy
Lethal combinations of opioids plus stimulants like cocaine or methamphetamine are behind steep increases in overdose deaths, and some racial and...
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Eating Dinner Late Ups Diabetes Risk; Melatonin Involved
'Try not to eat within 2 hours of bedtime,' is the message from a new study that found late eating acutely impairs glucose tolerance through a...
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Vaginal Progesterone for Preterm Birth Has Mixed Results
Two studies showed mixed results on the use of vaginal progesterone for preventing preterm birth. Medscape Medical News
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Absolute Increase in Long-Term Kawasaki CV Risk Remains Small
Relative to controls, the increased long-term cardiovascular risk in children with Kawasaki disease is small for most patients. Medscape...
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SGLT2 in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Lowers Risk of Gout
A retrospective, adjusted analysis of people in China with type 2 diabetes significantly linked SGLT2 inhibitor use with a lower risk of gout...
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Improved Follow-up Needed to Find Late-Stage Pancreatic Cancers
Researchers emphasize the need for implementing quality measures to avoid surveillance adherence and diagnostic errors. Medscape Medical News
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New PET Tracer Detects More Metastases in Cancer Patients
A new product that homes in on fibroblast activation protein may be a "paradigm shift" to better identification and targeting of many...
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It's All Relative: How Much Dilated Cardiomyopathy Is Familial?
A large, multicenter cohort study supports phenotype-based screening of first-degree family members of patients with confirmed DCM without input,...
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Study Parses Out Merits of Short DAPT, De-escalation in ACS
Results from the meta-analysis should put the alternative strategies on par with each other or even dethrone standard DAPT in current guidelines,...
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Patients With CKD May Feel Hindered in Research Participation
Patients and caregivers may avoid clinical research participation due to stigmatization and unfamiliarity with the research setting, finds a new...
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Death Rates Stay High Among Patients With Acute Kidney Injury
More than one in four patients who develop acute kidney injury die within 1 year of being hospitalized, with little improvement in survival over...
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New CDC Webpage Aims to Reduce Maternal Deaths
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing new online materials in a comprehensive campaign to reduce maternal mortality and...
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Stopping MS Med in Pregnancy Tied to High Disability Risk
Women with MS who stop taking natalizumab during pregnancy are at a significantly increased risk of relapse-related disability up to 1 year after...
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Climate Change Is Causing a Shift in the World’s Growing Regions
As the earth warms, the ability of some regions to continue to grow crops such as coffee, cashews, and avocados is declining, according to a...
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Marijuana Use Linked to Nausea, Vomiting of Pregnancy
Women who said they used cannabis during pregnancy reported more nausea and vomiting in a new study, but the direction of the association was...
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Aspirin Risks Unclear for Postpartum Bleeding
Low-dose aspirin was linked to an increased risk of postpartum bleeding in women who did not stop taking the drug at least seven days before...
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USDA Announces Stricter Standards for School Nutrition
"Nutritious school meals give America's children the foundation for successful, healthy lives." WebMD Health News
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Millions in Tax Dollars Flow to Anti-Abortion Centers in US
What is clear is that taxpayer funding for the centers has spiked in recent years as more Republican-led states have passed legislation severely...
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Picture Warnings on Kids' Drinks Could Help Fight Childhood Obesity
Picture warnings on sugary kids' drinks made parents less likely to buy those products — one step in the fight against childhood obesity, UNC...
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New Jersey to Lift School Mask Mandate
New Jersey Gov Murphy's announcement about lifting the statewide school mask mandate has been seen as an intentional signal to shift toward...