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Fulminant C. diff debate: Fecal transplants or antibiotics?
This type of infection represents about 8% of all C. difficile infections and is often fatal.
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Fulminant C. diff debate: Fecal transplants or antibiotics?
This type of infection represents about 8% of all C. difficile infections and is often fatal.
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Few women hospitalized for influenza have been vaccinated
“A provider recommendation, combined with an offer to administer a flu vaccine at the time of visit, remains one of the best ways” to increase flu...
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Acute HIV cases double in ED. Is COVID-19 responsible?
“The reason testing is so important, whether for HIV or COVID, is the more you test, the more you’re going to find.”
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EMA panel backs peanut allergy desensitizing powder Palforzia
Children with a peanut allergy receive controlled exposure to precise, increasing amounts of peanut protein, mixed with soft food with this...
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Scrubs ad that insulted women and DOs pulled after outcry
“We are outraged women physicians & doctors of osteopathic medicine are still attacked in ignorant marketing campaigns.”
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Antibiotics or appendectomy? Both good options
One expert says the body of data, including this trial, indicates that the best appendicitis treatment now comes down to individual patients and...
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CDC flips, acknowledges aerosol spread of COVID-19
The update acknowledges the existence of some published reports showing limited, uncommon circumstances where people with COVID-19 infected others...
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More female specialists, but gender gap persists in pay, survey finds
The gap in specialists narrowed slightly.
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CDC adds then retracts aerosols as main COVID-19 mode of transmission
WHO has long stated that coronavirus is spread mainly by droplets that, once expelled by coughs and sneezes of infected people, fall quickly to...
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Dr. Fauci: ‘About 40%-45% of infections are asymptomatic’
Transmission by asymptomatic individuals have made response strategies, such as contact tracing, extremely difficult to implement.
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Physician income drops, burnout spikes globally in pandemic
Some said they were looking for a career change away from medicine.