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MDedge Daily News: Bridging medicine’s gender gap
And surgeries are driving up hospital costs.
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VIDEO: Encouraging results reported for novel Huntington’s disease therapy
LOS ANGELES – In a short, 46-patient trial, the antisense oligonucleotide IONIS-HTTRx safely reduced CSF concentrations of the huntingtin protein...
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VIDEO: Ubrogepant reduced pain, related symptoms of a migraine attack
Significantly more patients treated with the CGRP blocker saw pain relief within 2 hours of taking the oral medication, compared with placebo.
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E-cigarette use in teens increases risk of cannabis use
The association between baseline e-cigarette use and later heavy marijuana use was significant for 12- to 14-year -olds.
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VIDEO: Fix physician burnout? You need more than yoga
Physicians looking to renew their professional satisfaction and personal well-being should turn to an unlikely ally.
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VIDEO: A treatment plan for medicine’s gender inequities
A new generation of younger physicians - women and men - can reshape medicine's mindset on gender equity.
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Focus on early maladaptive schemas can reduce PTSD burden
Karina T. Loyo says schema-focused therapy can help PTSD patients let go of worldviews that reinforce suffering.
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Federal court puts chill on Maryland drug price-gouging law
Similar price-gouging legislation has been introduced in at least 13 states this year, though none of those measures became law.
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Will patients get on board with CMS’s new health data approach?
CMS Administrator, Seema Verma, wants clinicians who still believe they can deny patients’ access to their own health records to change their...
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Surgeon General wants naloxone widely on hand. Is that feasible?
Is Dr. Adams’ have-naloxone-will-carry recommendation at best limited in what it can achieve?
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MDedge Daily News: Doctors say no to pot for sleep apnea
And what’s the best antithrombotic therapy after TAVI?