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Today’s Top News Highlights: COVID-19 -- Heart transplant patients face greater mortality, rheumatology drugs look safe
A recent study found a 25% case-fatality among heart transplant recipients with COVID-19 infection.
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Most rheumatology drugs don’t increase COVID-19 hospitalization risk
“These results provide, for the first time, information about the outcome of COVID-19 in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.”
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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.
News from the FDA/CDC
Americans avoided emergency departments early in the pandemic
CDC: Visits over 4 weeks dropped by 42%, compared with the corresponding period in 2019.
Commentary
The grocery store hug
I meet folks in the grocery store with whom I share a special affection and that magnetic spark still leaps between our eyes, just visible over...
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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...
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COVID-19: New group stands up for health professionals facing retaliation
“Doctors, nurses, health care workers are not the typical type to engage politically, to speak out, [or to] advocate for themselves,” said Beacon...
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FDA okays emergency use for Impella RP in COVID-19 right heart failure
From the Journals
Distancing works, N95 respirators work better
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COVID-19 ravaging the Navajo Nation
The Navajo are having to rely on the strength and resilience of traditional Navajo culture and philosophy to confront COVID, said Dr. Mary Hasbah...