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COVID-19 drives innovation in addiction treatment
“The onset of COVID really upended a lot of things, but ... now there may not be just one right way for recovery,” said Haley Fulton, a fourth-...
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IBD: Fecal calprotectin’s role in guiding treatment debated
"There's a lot of variation, which makes the cutoffs good on average for populations but a little bit more difficult to apply to individuals,"...
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Radiofrequency ablation blocks hip, shoulder arthritis pain
A new treatment “stuns” sensory nerves and reduces pain signals in knee and shoulder osteoarthritis.
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Three genes could predict congenital Zika infection susceptibility
The genes appear in only the children, not the mothers.
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Children and school during the pandemic: What’s the answer?
Dr. Panciu of Budapest and Dr. Buonsenso of Rome debate this conundrum.
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Emotions, worse attention linked to pain-related health care use in SCD
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Moving from subtypes to phenotypes is simplifying management of rosacea
With the previous method of subtyping, many rosacea patients failed to fit neatly into any of the four categories, producing confusion and...
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Vaginal cleansing protocol curbs deep SSIs after cesarean
Significant reductions occurred in surgical-site infections following the initiation of a quality improvement program.
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Watch for cognitive traps that lead diagnostics astray
When errors are made, it’s not because physicians lack knowledge: rather they go down a wrong path in their thinking process.
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Obesity phenotyping matches patients with more effective interventions
A prospective, randomized study suggests obesity phenotyping can guide selection of more effective, tailored weight-loss drug regimens.
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COVID-19 impacts women’s contraception choices
Providers embrace telehealth to help women adapt to changing circumstances and maintain access to contraceptive options.