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Lower heart disease mortality brings increased disparity
Blacks and whites were further apart in 2015 than in 1968.
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Medicare Part D plans get more flexibility to make midyear changes
Final rule includes changes affecting formularies, biosimilar copays, low-income subsidy beneficiaries, and plan offerings.
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A refined strategy for confirming diagnosis in suspected NSTEMI
Perform CT angiography or cardiovascular MRI first to reduce inappropriate invasive angiography.
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MDedge Daily News: Does more marijuana mean fewer opioids?
And acutely ill patients may not get enough venous thromboembolism prophylaxis.
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Distinguish neurogenic from nonneurogenic orthostatic hypotension
This HR:BP ratio suggests a neurogenic cause.
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Few acutely ill hospitalized patients receive VTE prophylaxis
The results “imply that there is a significantly unmet need for effective VTE prophylaxis in both the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care...
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Interventionalists eager for better bioresorbable stents
WASHINGTON – “There is a clinical need for bioresorbable stents unless drug-eluting stents are perfect.”
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Patients who hide. Patients who seek.
Medicare survey examined the propensity to seek medical care.
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Higher preconception blood pressure linked to pregnancy loss
Women with a history of pregnancy loss and with elevated blood pressure during preconception may be at increased risk of pregnancy loss.
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MDedge Daily News: How European data privacy rules may cost you
And a new ranking points physicians toward practice-friendly South Dakota.
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Protocol helped identify hospitalized children at risk for VTE
SAN DIEGO – Children with hospital-acquired VTE tended to be more medically complex, a single-center study showed.