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COVID vaccines lower risk of serious illness in children
“The findings in this report support the recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination for all children aged ≥6 months and highlight the importance of...
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Secondhand smoke exposure linked to migraine, severe headache
“These findings underscore the need for stronger regulation of tobacco exposure, particularly in homes and public places.”
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Autoimmune Skin Diseases Linked To Risk Of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
The three most common autoimmune skin diseases in the study cohort were vitiligo (30%), alopecia areata (30%), and cutaneous lupus erythematosus (...
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Patients exposed to HIV, hepatitis at Massachusetts hospital
There is no evidence to date of any infections resulting from this incident.
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ACC/AHA issue updated atrial fibrillation guideline
The updated guideline recognizes lifestyle and risk factor modification as a “pillar” of AF management and offers “more prescriptive”...
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What is the dark side of GLP-1 receptor agonists?
“When millions of people are treated with medications like semaglutide, even relatively rare side effects occur in a large number of individuals...
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The 5 things dentists wished physicians weren’t missing
“It can be a big ask of primary care physicians, because we already ask a lot of them. But some of these things are very simple.”
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Vagus nerve stimulation promising in POTS
“Collectively, these data suggest that tVNS, a low-cost, low-risk intervention, applied for a short period of time in selected patients with POTS...
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New tests may finally diagnose long COVID
“I was gobsmacked by the results. We’re seeing a massive dysregulation in those four biomarkers. It’s a combination that we showed was predictive...
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Underdiagnosed: Iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy
IDA increases a patient’s risk of delivering preterm and developing postpartum depression and puts their infants at a risk for perinatal mortality...
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Avoid anti-HER2 cancer therapies during pregnancy
Exposure to anti-HER2 agents was associated with “severe specific adverse pregnancy and fetal or newborn outcomes compared with exposure to other...