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COVID-19: Extra caution needed for patients with diabetes
Coexisting heart disease, kidney disease, advanced age, and frailty are likely to further increase the severity of disease.
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FDA provides flexibility to improve COVID-19 test availability
Laboratories developing tests who work with the appropriate state authorities will no longer need to pursue an emergency use authorization from...
Literature Review
Vision symptoms are common and often life-altering for patients with Parkinson’s disease
Two-thirds of patients reported ophthalmologic problems that were severe enough to interfere with activities such as walking, reading, working on...
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CDC expert answers top COVID-19 questions
Dr. Jay C. Butler, of the CDC, discusses coronavirus testing, immunity, and recovery with JAMA editor Howard Bauchner, MD, during a recent...
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Trump to governors: Don’t wait for feds on medical supplies
President Trump outlined new guidance for Americans to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people.
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ESC says continue hypertension meds despite COVID-19 concern
European Society of Cardiology cites lack of data for theoretical link between ACE inhibitors and ARBs with COVID-19 infection risk.
Conference Coverage
Researchers develop score to predict risk of stroke among migraineurs with aura
LOS ANGELES – Once it has been validated, the score could allow physicians to treat patients’ risk factors and...
Commentary
Psychiatric patients and pandemics
We have decided to restrict visitors out of the concern that one may infect a ward of patients and staff.
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Here’s what ICUs are putting up against COVID-19
Society of Critical Care Medicine takes inventory of the nation’s resources.
Opinion
COVID-19 in children, pregnant women: What do we know?
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Flattening the curve: Viral graphic shows COVID-19 containment needs
The race is on in the U.S. to interrupt the transmission of the virus and slow the spread, meaning containment measures have increasingly higher...