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Who Needs a Defibrillator After MI? FDA Recs on Inferior Vena Cava Filters

Also in TTHealthWatch: early sugar exposure, hypertension, and diabetes

An Emergency Doc's Experience Contracting Ebola

Craig Spencer reflects on his 2014 Ebola diagnosis after volunteering for Doctors Without Borders

A photo of a male physician holding a video laryngoscope over a patient.

Field Notes: One of the Toughest Airways of My Career

Technique matters. Thinking matters more.

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RFK Jr. Threatens the Very Fabric of Healthcare

A vote to give Kennedy power is a vote against public health

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A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas ERs

This marks one of at least two women who died under the state abortion ban

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What's Our Capacity for Measuring Hospital Capacity?

With respiratory virus season coming, resumed reporting is critical

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Tricuspid Valve Replacement Finds Surer Footing With TRISCEND II's 1-Year Report

Evoque device helped outcomes in severe tricuspid regurgitation, with some safety caveats

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Colchicine Goes Belly-Up in a More Definitive Heart Attack Trial

Larger CLEAR OASIS 9 trial could not replicate past results

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We Can Better Protect Kids From Head Injury in Football

Making youth football safer requires a collective effort

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Heart Attack Patients Who Receive Heparin ASAP Are Better Primed for Cath Lab

Administration at first medical contact at PCI hospital tied to more spontaneous reperfusion

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Stent-Like Hybrid on Track for Lofty Long-Term Goals in PCI

Stent-related events plateaued 6 months after DynamX implant

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No Kidney Benefit With Finerenone in Heart Failure Patients

Anti-mineralocorticoid agent reduced albuminuria, but not eGFR-based kidney outcome

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Stroke Survivors With Afib Could Start DOACs Earlier

Safety shown with no difference in recurrent strokes

A Moral Code: Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine

Three physicians face crossroads in patient care

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A Case of Broca's Aphasia

An excerpt from Theodore H. Schwartz's book, Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery

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ACIP Backs Extra COVID Vax Dose for Seniors, Pneumococcal Vax for Adults 50 and Up

CDC advisors also formalize recommendations on extra COVID vaccine doses in the immunocompromised

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RSV Vaccine Tied to Fewer Hospitalizations, ED Visits in Older, High-Risk Adults

However, questions remain about durability of vaccine protection, expert says

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Case Against Perioperative Beta-Blockers Grows Stronger

Excess postoperative strokes, and accompanying racial disparities, tied to any beta-blocker use

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Shorter Course of Antibiotics Works for Bloodstream Infections

With few exceptions, treatment can be shortened to 7 days, researcher says

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Novel Monoclonal Antibody Protects Infants Against RSV

Clesrovimab reduced severe disease, hospitalizations in preterm and term healthy infants

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Stroke Survivors Still Prescribed a 'Concerning' Amount of Benzos

Red flag in nationwide data despite improvement since 2013

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Nurse in Critical Condition; JD Vance's Mom Got Obamacare; Bird Flu Cluster Grows

Health news and commentary gathered by 番茄社区 staff

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Safety Data Favor Diuretic Strategy Triggered by Cardiac Monitoring Alerts in HF

Effectiveness of this personalized approach now under investigation

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Elamipretide for Barth Syndrome Survives FDA Advisory Vote

Panelists acknowledge difficulty generating stronger data in ultra-rare disease

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FDA's Promised Guidance on Pulse Oximeters Unlikely to End Decades of Racial Bias

Devices three times as likely to miss dangerously low blood oxygen in Black patients

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Marburg Virus' Latest Eruption

A veteran fighter against hemorrhagic fevers shares candid thoughts

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Cardiac Surgery-Associated AKI Lower With Extracorporeal Blood Purification

Device yields 10% absolute reduction in acute kidney injury within a week of surgery

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FDA Reviewers Cast Doubt on Drug Candidate for Barth Syndrome

Agency appears unswayed by mitochondria-targeting drug for rare cardioskeletal disease

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Liberal Blood Transfusions Deliver Brain Function Benefit for the Critically Ill

Fewer cerebral ischemic events also observed with care teams quicker to give blood

How Did Public Health Become a Public Enemy at the Supreme Court?

Conservative majority is "buying into" anti-science attitudes, warns Lawrence Gostin, JD

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Metabolic Accelerator Shows Promise for Weight Loss Side of Obesity-HFpEF Equation

Benefit in symptoms, functional outcomes remains to be seen for HU6

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Some Epilepsy Drugs Tied to Cardiovascular Events in Older People

Link likely due to enzyme-inducing antiseizure medications

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Mavacamten Shows Promise in Heart Failure With Normal to Supranormal EF

Cardiac myosin inhibitor linked to improvements in biomarkers in small study

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Does Finerenone's Efficacy Diminish if Initiated Late in Heart Failure?

Benefit of the nonsteroidal MRA otherwise consistent across FINEARTS-HF

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COVID Preventive Drug Should Work Against Circulating Variants, FDA Now Says

The agency has issued a revised fact sheet for healthcare providers

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Former NFL QB's Dementia; Stem Cells Reverse Woman's Diabetes; More Free COVID Tests

Health news and commentary gathered by 番茄社区 staff

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Novel Antiviral Appears Effective for Severe RSV in Infants, Toddlers

But will benefits seen in Chinese trial translate to clinical improvement?

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Post-Stroke Fever Prevention Still Lacking in Clinical Benefit

Temperature management device did result in less fever in the INTREPID trial

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Sexual and Gender Minorities More Likely to Have Adverse Brain Outcomes

Some LGBTQ+ groups have higher likelihood of dementia

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Remdesivir-Dexamethasone Tied to Fewer Deaths in Severe COVID

However, study fails to answer key questions, expert says

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