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Acoramidis Tablets (Attruby)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved acoramidis, an oral drug for the treatment of transthyretin-related amyloid cardiomyopathy.
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Intravenous Tenecteplase for Stroke After 4.5 Hours Does Not Improve Outcome
Standard therapy for acute ischemic stroke is intravenous thrombolysis within 4.5 hours from onset of symptoms. Alteplase has been the standard medication, but in recent years, tenecteplase has supplanted alteplase because of its ease of administration as a single intravenous bolus and lower cost.
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Parasites and Poverty in the South
Parasite contamination of soil remains prevalent in some areas of the southern United States.
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Withholding Intubation in Some Acutely Poisoned Coma Patients May Help
In this unblinded, randomized trial of adults presenting with acute poisoning and a Glasgow Coma Scale score less than 9, those for whom intubation was withheld unless emergently indicated had decreased intensive care unit and hospital lengths of stay and a lower rate of pneumonia.
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Post-Traumatic Epilepsy and the Risk of Dementia
A subset of people with head injury will develop post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE). This prospective cohort study demonstrated a 4.5-fold increased risk of dementia in those with PTE compared to people without head trauma or epilepsy, and that this risk exceeds that observed in people with head trauma or epilepsy alone.
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Pink Eye: Do Antibiotics Matter?
Acute infectious conjunctivitis, commonly referred to as pink eye, is common in children and is caused by bacteria more often than by viruses. Nonetheless, neither the clinical course of uncomplicated cases nor the spread of infection to peers is significantly altered by treatment with topical antibiotics or by exclusion of infected children from daycare and school settings.
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Outpatient CAP Treatment in Adults: Narrower Spectrum Therapy Is Better Tolerated
Examination of a large database led to the conclusion that treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in outpatients with narrower-spectrum agents (macrolides or doxycycline) was associated with similar clinical outcomes but with a lower incidence of adverse effects when compared to broader-spectrum therapy.
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Saving Mothers Is Here!
Saving Mothers: Insights and Interventions in Reducing Maternal Mortality is tailor-made to help clinicians keep pregnant patients as safe as possible during a medically complex time in their lives. Perfect for OB/GYN and emergency medicine physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives, this book, this book provides 15 hours of pregnancy-specific CME/CE credits.
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Wildfire Smoke Exposure Is a Risk Factor for Dementia
In this large, open cohort study based on electronic health record data from 2009 to 2019 of dementia-free people older than 60 years of age, exposure to wildfire smoke resulted in an increased incidence of dementia later in life.
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Psychiatric Comorbidities in Persons with Epilepsy
In this systematic review and meta-analysis, the prevalence of most psychiatric disorders was significantly higher in persons with epilepsy than in those without epilepsy. These findings show the high burden of psychiatric comorbidities in persons with epilepsy and underscore the importance of appropriately identifying and treating psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy patients.