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Ethicists Attend ‘Unconference,’ Tackle Tough Problems Facing the Field
Traditional ethics conferences often focus on theoretical, less practical topics. In contrast, the "Unconference" prioritizes abstracts and sessions that aim to propel the field forward, and to address practical problems facing the field.
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The Reproducibility Crisis in Clinical Trial Research
Theoretically, a researcher should be able to reproduce any clinical trial and see the same or similar findings. Yet the long-standing “reproducibility crisis” in science persists, resulting in a surge of new analyses and recommendations.
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NFTs Could Give Patients Control Over Who Accesses Medical Data
Personal health information carries indisputable value to individuals — both clinically and financially. Yet, as it stands, patients have little or no say on how their own health data are shared. Some ethicists argue nonfungible tokens (NFTs) can be used to create a more ethical and transparent system.
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Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Increased Risk of Stroke
It has been established that women who have hypertension during pregnancy from any cause, compared to those without a history of hypertension, have an increased risk for subsequent stroke. Investigators in this study from Taiwan looked at the differences between the four major types of hypertensive disorders and the relative risks of subsequent stroke in women.
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Women Who Experienced Miscarriage or Stillbirth Early in Life Have an Increased Risk of Stroke in Later Life
Investigators performed a comprehensive literature search and meta-analysis of 16 cohort studies and two case-control studies that reviewed the records of 7,808,521 women who experienced complications around pregnancy to determine the subsequent risk of stroke and determined that women who had experienced miscarriage or stillbirth were at a higher risk of future stroke.
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Antihypertensive Therapy for Mild Chronic Hypertension in Pregnant Women
Antihypertensive treatment of mild chronic hypertension in pregnant women was associated with reduced risk of preeclampsia with severe features, medically indicated preterm birth at < 35 weeks’ gestation, placental abruption, and fetal or neonatal demise compared to no treatment.
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Does Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy at the Time of Benign Hysterectomy Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk?
In this retrospective cohort study of 195,282 women who underwent benign hysterectomy with or without bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO), the group who underwent BSO had a decreased ovarian cancer incidence (hazard ratio, 0.23; 95% confidence interval, 0.14-0.38) at 16 years of follow-up compared to those who retained their ovaries.
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Age and Risk of Sterilization Regret: Analysis of a Contemporary Dataset
In this retrospective analysis of the 2015-2017 and 2017-2019 National Survey of Family Growth female respondent files, women younger than 30 years of age were more likely to experience sterilization regret compared to women older than 30 years of age. As women got older, sterilization regret decreased, and no other demographic or clinical factors, including race, parity, educational attainment, or medical reasons for sterilization, were associated with regret.
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Etafilcon A Drug-Eluting Contact Lens with Ketotifen (Acuvue Theravision with Ketotifen)
Ketotifen-eluting contact lens can be prescribed to correct refractive ametropia (myopia and hyperopia) for phakic or aphakic patients who wear suitable lens and experience ocular itch caused by allergic conjunctivitis.
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Women at Higher Risk for Intracranial Aneurysm Ruptures
Women with ruptured aneurysms were older than men, were less often smokers, and more often experienced internal carotid artery aneurysms. They also tended to produce larger-sized aneurysms than men.