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Atogepant for Migraine Prevention
Atogepant, an oral small-molecule inhibitor of the calcitonin gene-related peptide pathway, administered once daily, effectively reduced migraine days in the preventive treatment trial of migraine over a period of 12 weeks.
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Vitamin D and COVID-19
Low levels of vitamin D are associated with in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19, but causality is not yet known.
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Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Duration Is Predictive of Life Expectancy
Total sleep duration declines with older age, as does the fraction of sleep spent in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. The decline in REM is associated with increasing mortality, but it is unclear if this is a cause or a marker of declining health and declining brain function.
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Cannabis Use and Associated Health Conditions in Primary Care: An EHR Review
This cross-sectional review of 185,565 patients’ medical records revealed documentation of medicinal cannabis use in 2% of the records. Within this subgroup, 44.5% had documentation of one or more health conditions potentially benefitting from treatment with cannabis, 54.4% had documentation of one or more health conditions potentially worsening with cannabis use, and 36.6% had both types of health conditions.
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Hypertension in Adults: An Update
Hypertension remains the leading cause of death and disability-adjusted life years globally, accounting for 10.4 million deaths per year. In the United States, hypertension accounts for more cardiovascular disease deaths than any other modifiable risk factor and is second only to cigarette smoking as a preventable cause of death for any reason.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
A Reservoir of Pharyngeal GC; Difficult-to-Treat vs. Standard Multidrug Resistance
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Malaria: At Last a Vaccine
The World Health Organization has recommended the use of the first effective malaria vaccine.
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Bacillus cereus Causing an Anthrax-Like Pneumonia
Bacillus cereus group organisms may cause a rapidly fatal pulmonary infection consistent with anthrax.
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Can Antibiotics Lead to Colon Cancer?
Swedish researchers saw an association between frequent antibiotic use and proximal colorectal cancer.
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IDWeek 2021: Skipping Along with Staphylococcus aureus
A single set of blood cultures may be inadequate to document clearance of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in some patients.