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No need to restrict hep C DAA therapy based on alcohol use
Alcohol use is not associated with decreased odds of a sustained virologic response to direct-acting antiviral therapy.
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Study: Antiviral med linked to COVID mutations that can spread
“There aren’t any widely circulating variants that have the signature. At the moment there’s nothing that’s transmitted very widely that’s due to...
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Worm pulled from woman’s brain in case that ‘stunned’
“When you operate on a brain, you don’t expect to find anything alive.”
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Paxlovid weaker against current COVID-19 variants
But when looking at death alone, the antiviral was still highly effective.
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Three antibiotic regimens show similar effectiveness for CAP
Treatment with a beta-lactam alone was associated with a longer time to hospital discharge and small increase in risk for in-hospital mortality....
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Creatine may improve key long COVID symptoms: Small study
A small randomized, controlled study finds a significant reduction in hallmark long COVID symptoms, but there are important unanswered questions...
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Primary care clinicians should spearhead HIV prevention
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines call for clinicians to prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs to adolescents and adults who do...
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Do doctors have a legal right to work from home because of health issues or disability?
“There is now a precedent and examples all over that working from home for some is a viable alternative to working in the hospital or a clinic.”...
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Paxlovid and Lagevrio benefit COVID outpatients in Omicron era
In a update of the rapid practice point guideline for outpatient treatment of COVID-19, the American College of Physicians found that nirmatrelvir...
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New antibiotic could combat multidrug-resistant superbugs
"Since clovibactin was isolated from bacteria that could not be grown before, pathogenic bacteria have not seen such an antibiotic before and had...
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Antigen tests: After pandemic success, time for bigger role?
“People used to the COVID self-tests are asking: “Where is my strep test? Where is my sexual health test?”