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HCV testing/awareness successful as part of HIV integrated care
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Strategy critical to surviving drug shortages
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – The impact of drug shortages transcends the inability to supply patients with first-line or optimal therapy. Education is...
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Clinicians ask FDA for continued ‘discretion’ to do fecal transplants
The death of an immunocompromised FMT patient last year from invasive, drug-resistant E. coli is seen by some as a consequence of a loose...
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Open Clinical Trials for Native Americans With Diabetes Mellitus
Providing access to clinical trials for patients with diabetes mellitus can be a challenge, but a significant number of trials are...
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Evaluating a Program Process Change to Improve Completion of Foot Exams and Amputation Risk Assessments for Veterans with Diabetes
A quality improvement initiative significantly increased the number of veterans
receiving thorough foot exams and amputation risk assessments...
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A National Survey of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers’ Cardiology Services
A survey found that of cardiology services were widely available at facilities across the US Department of Veterans Affairs, but the types of...
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A Health Care Provider Intervention to Address Obesity in Patients with Diabetes
An education program offered health care providers information to assess patients’ daily calorie goal and prompted an increase in weight loss and...
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Emotional processing of scenes in bipolar I appears intact
“Future research ... should focus on neurocognitive subtypes of mood and psychotic disorders, [and] other domains of emotional responding and...
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Limited Use of Outpatient Stress Testing in Young Patients With Atypical Chest Pain
Low prevalence of coronary artery disease within this population suggests that younger patients may not require stress testing for chest pain...
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Vaping related lung injury: Warning signs, care, & prevention
This month, Dr. Campos-Outcalt describes what we know about EVALI—e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury. He describes the...