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Ignored by doctors, transgender people turn to DIY treatments
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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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Pilot study shows apremilast effective for severe recurrent canker sores
Of available therapies for the condition, “several have common side effects or require lab monitoring or are not uniformly effective,” Dr. Alison...
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Daily Recap: From hospitalist to ‘COVIDist’; Systolic BP -- How low should you go?
“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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‘I can’t breathe’: Health inequity and state-sanctioned violence
Whether we know it or not, we all carry some form of implicit bias.
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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