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Multiple Sclerosis Disease Burden May Be Underestimated
Prescription drug prices, indirect productivity loss drive care costs significantly higher for these patients compared to others.
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Panel Backs Away from Aspirin for Cardiovascular Disease Primary Prevention
Experts say patients age 60 years and older should not start taking the drug to prevent a first stroke or heart attack.
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HHS Calls on Healthcare Sector to Lower Emissions
Voluntary pledge asks for 50% reduction by 2030; White House to host summit in June.
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Machine Learning Models Predict Recurrence, Complications Associated with Hernia Repair
Tool could prevent readmissions and repeat procedures while saving millions of dollars.
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Posterior Myocardial Infarction, or deWinter T Waves?
The ECG was taken from an older man who complained of chest pain over the past month. The pain severity was even worse on the day he underwent imaging. How would you interpret the ECG?
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Dexmedetomidine Sublingual Film (Igalmi)
Dexmedetomidine can be prescribed for the acute management of agitation associated with schizophrenia or bipolar I or II disorder.
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COVID-19 Vaccine and the Menstrual Cycle
In a retrospective cohort analysis of prospectively tracked menstrual cycle data from the smartphone application “Natural Cycles,” the COVID-19 vaccine was associated with a less than one day change in menstrual cycle length and no change in menses length.
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Postmenopausal Estrogen May Prevent Death from COVID-19 Infection
Swedish researchers found taking postmenopausal estrogen was associated with a lower death rate from COVID-19 infection. Taking estrogen suppression therapy for breast cancer was associated with a higher death rate compared with controls.
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Sugar-Containing Beverages in Infancy and Liver Fat Accumulation at School Age
In this observational study, the authors examined the associations between sugar-containing beverage intake in infancy and liver fat accumulation and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease among school-aged children.
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Can Antioxidant Consumption Prevent Coronary Artery Disease?
A study of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) that increase blood levels of diet-derived antioxidants in three large individual subject genetic databases did not demonstrate a relationship between SNPs and coronary artery disease.