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Op-Ed: Will the Real COVID Experts Please Stand Up?

A core set of principles separate those who make good and bad policy decisions

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Novel Heart Failure Agent Works Best in Sickest Patients

Omecamtiv mecarbil provides benefit to those with low LVEF

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Plavix Beats Aspirin, Brilinta After Stenting

HOST-EXAM and TALOS-AMI studies from South Korea focus on aspects of DAPT

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Finerenone May Delay AFib Onset in Patients With CKD and Diabetes

Risk of kidney or CV events reduced regardless of atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter history

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COVID Patient 'Lottery' Ensured Scarce Drugs Divided Equitably

System prioritized, deprioritized certain patient groups

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Pacemaker Interference Warning; Religious Fasting and CVD; Toothpick in the Heart

Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine

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Personalized Rehab Helpful in Heart Failure Patients

Trial showed improvements in physical functioning and quality of life compared with usual care

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LAA Occlusion During Surgery Cuts Stroke Risk

Afib patients on antithrombotic therapy saw gains from add-on left atrial appendage occlusion

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The Life Cycle of Emotion in Medicine

Perspectives change throughout a career

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Review ID's Racism During Care of Black Doctor Who Died of COVID

"Lack of empathy, compassion, and awareness of implicit racial bias," external review concludes

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Diversity in Pancreatic Cancer Trials Lacking

White patients typically overrepresented at expense of racial, ethnic minorities

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Impressive Disease Control in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

ESMO Breast: Reassuring safety data for dual anti-HER2 therapy, antibody-drug conjugate

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Amylin Analogue Plus Semaglutide Get Early Win for Weight Loss

Combining agents yielded greater weight changes than semaglutide alone

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Op-Ed: Make America Maskless Again?

ZDoggMD thinks we're reaching the COVID tipping point, here's why

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Droplets vs Aerosols: What's More Important in COVID-19 Spread?

CDC finally acknowledged aerosol transmission, but contribution to case counts remains unclear

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Chemo-Free Regimen Shows Promise in High-Risk Early Breast Cancer

PFS and other outcomes with letrozole-palbociclib almost identical to chemotherapy

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Implanted Sensor Translates Brain Signals Into Text

Brain-computer interface decodes handwriting movements from neural activity

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Bloated Notes Are a Time Suck

Why do we do it to ourselves?

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Stopping IL-17 Drug for Axial Spondyloarthritis? Expect Spinal Flares

But low disease activity regained if treatment restarted

COVID-19 UPDATE and Other News over a background of illustrated coronaviruses

Indian Variant a Global Risk; Good News on U.S. Cases; Baylor Expert Gets Threats

A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine

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Op-Ed: Don't Overdose on COVID Optimism

As the pandemic drags on, we can all take a cue from this Vietnam-era admiral's "paradox"

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First COVID Vax Authorized for Younger Teens

FDA officials argued authorization was necessary to help control pandemic

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No Clarity for Role of Laser Therapy in Vulvar Lichen Sclerosus

Mixed results from two small randomized clinical trials

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COVID Vax & Myocarditis; Ejection Fractions on EKG; Southerners Still Unwell

Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine

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Asthma Med Adherence: Do High Insurance Deductibles Make a Difference?

Study findings may surprise you

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Blood Thinners Continue at End of Life, Despite Risks

No clear guideline for stopping anticoagulants in patients with advanced dementia

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Doubling Down on Immunotherapy in Advanced Melanoma

Checkpoint inhibitor combo active after upfront anti-PD-1/L1 therapy

Post-Vax Adverse Events; Blood Groups and Disease: It's TTHealthWatch!

Also this week: nanoparticle vaccine for COVID and dexamethasone for surgical site infections

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Physicians: Heal Yourself First

Treat yourself like you treat your patients

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Defining Alzheimer's: Should Cognitively Unimpaired People Be Included?

A definition that works for research is not right for the clinic, experts argue

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The Death of One Little Girl Helped Millions

A case more than 35 years ago has spurred discoveries ever since

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Screaming Patient, No Restraints

The empathy idea in emergency psychiatry

People wearing protective masks are lined up outside of Krishnaraja Hospital in Mysore of Karnataka state in India.

Op-Ed: Death Is the New Normal in India

The COVID crisis in my country has been a long time coming

9 faces on a video conference, the center person is a man wearing a paper bag over his head with an unhappy face drawn on it.

Another COVID-19 Side Effect: 'Zoom Dysmorphia'

As people spend more time on camera, many of them like themselves less and less

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Teen Social Media Addiction? Consider Race-Based Trauma

Composite case offers example on how media diet of racial violence could affect mental health

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Docs React to Medical Stand-Up Comedy

See if you find their bits funny

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APA 2021 Roundup: New Antipsychotic Class, Anxious America

Other noteworthy research presented at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting

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Saxenda Boosted Weight Loss, Especially With Exercise

But year-long RCT excluded those with type 2 diabetes

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Patient Awake for 13 Minutes of Surgery

Paralytic initiated, but sevoflurane never turned on

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FDA Panel to Weigh Avacopan's Fate for ANCA Vasculitis

Agency staff called out "interpretability" of phase III trial results ahead of Thursday's meeting

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