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Daily Recap: COVID-19 care delays mean excess cancer deaths; flu vaccine recommendations
A new model predicts that tens of thousands of excess cancer deaths will occur over the next decade because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Daily Recap: Healthy lifestyle may stave off dementia; Tentative evidence on marijuana for migraine
“A short-term decline of this magnitude … is biologically implausible for MI and stroke.”
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Telehealth and medical liability
Is the “in-person” standard of care appropriate for telemedicine?
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Daily Recap: ED visits for life-threatening conditions plummet; COVID-19 imaging strategies for kids
“A short-term decline of this magnitude … is biologically implausible for MI and stroke.”
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Daily Recap: Headache as COVID evolution predictor; psoriasis drug treats canker sores
“From an individual level we can now say that in healthy individuals, a systolic pressure in the 90s is not too low. It is a positive thing.”
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Renal denervation response similar regardless of CV risks, comorbidities
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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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High-frequency spinal cord stimulation eases painful diabetic neuropathy
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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...
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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...
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More fatalities in heart transplant patients with COVID-19