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News
Telehealth and medical liability
Is the “in-person” standard of care appropriate for telemedicine?
Perspectives
‘I can’t breathe’: Health inequity and state-sanctioned violence
Whether we know it or not, we all carry some form of implicit bias.
Conference Coverage
For COVID-19 plus diabetes, glycemic control tops treatment list
Tight glucose control led to better results in patients with diabetes and COVID-19.
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Fighting COVID and police brutality, medical teams take to streets to treat protesters
“I am working full time and basically being at the protest after getting straight off of work,” said Butler, who is black. That’s tiring, she...
From the Journals
Lancet, NEJM retract studies on hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19
The Lancet issued a retraction of an influential study of hydroxychloroquine use in COVID-19 patients. Hours later, NEJM retracted a second study...
From the Journals
More fatalities in heart transplant patients with COVID-19
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Today’s top news highlights: COVID-19 could worsen gambling problems, food allergies less common than thought
The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to increase problematic gambling behaviors.
Conference Coverage
Germline testing in advanced cancer can lead to targeted treatment
In a study of nearly 12,000 cancer patients, 7%-9% of patients had targetable germline alterations.
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Today’s top news highlights: Addressing racism in maternity care, group forms to protect health professionals from retaliation
The emerging racial disparities in COVID-19 incidence and outcomes in the United States are on a collision course with long-standing racial...
News
FDA okays emergency use for Impella RP in COVID-19 right heart failure
Conference Coverage
Active cancer increases death risk in patients with COVID-19