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Cook your amphibians before you eat them
Diet drinks may be tricking your brain.
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Greater portal use gives patients access, doctors headaches
Patients who are encouraged by their doctors to use portals are more likely to do so, meaning more access for patients, and, in some cases, more...
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‘Alarming’ increase in fake pills laced with fentanyl, methamphetamine, DEA warns
More than 9.5 million fake pills have been seized so far this year – more than the last 2 years combined.
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Your bathroom towel rack has a dirty little secret
Plus anti-vaxxer purity and sulfurous vegetables.
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Nurses ‘at the breaking point,’ consider quitting due to COVID issues: Survey
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Baylor gets restraining order against COVID-19 vaccine–skeptic doc
The war should be against SARS-CoV-2, but “because this virus has so many supporters, the war in essence becomes a war against ourselves, which is...
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‘Empathy fatigue’ in clinicians rises with latest COVID-19 surge
It is not shameful for clinicians to acknowledge that they experience emotions such as frustration, anger, sadness, and anxiety, said Dr. Mona...
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COVID vaccine preprint study prompts Twitter outrage
The authors’ conclusions about rates of myocarditis after COVID vaccine in boys aged 12-17 years are attacked for supposedly stoking antivaccine...
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A boy went to a COVID-swamped ER. He waited for hours. Then his appendix burst.
To have so many ICU beds pressed into service for a single diagnosis is “unheard of. It’s approaching apocalyptic.”
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Children and COVID: New cases down slightly from record high
Hospitalizations may have spiked as vaccinations continue to decline.
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Feds slap UPMC, lead cardiothoracic surgeon with fraud lawsuit
The whistleblower suit alleges fraudulent billing tied to concurrent surgeries and ‘longstanding, knowing, and egregious violations of the public...