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<乌鸦传媒>Old Drugs, New Tricks: The Power of Medication Repurposing

COVID highlighted the untapped potential of existing treatments

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<乌鸦传媒>Colorado Teen Fights Kidney Failure After Eating McDonald's Quarter Pounders

Deadly E. coli outbreak has been tentatively traced to contaminated onions

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<乌鸦传媒>Why Has This Preteen Had Baldness and Fragile Hair Since Infancy?

Trichoscopy helps clinicians identify the cause -- no genetic testing required

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<乌鸦传媒>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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<乌鸦传媒>IG Live November 1: Healthcare Is on the Ballot

Public health and access to care are at stake in the 2024 election

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<乌鸦传媒>Woman Dies Waiting 40 Hours for Care; NP's Sex Assault Arrest; Violence in Hospitals

Health news and commentary gathered by 乌鸦传媒 staff

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<乌鸦传媒>Novel Drug for Chronic Inducible Urticaria Delivers in Mid-Stage Trial

Impressive responses with barzolvolimab in cold urticaria, symptomatic dermographism

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<乌鸦传媒>House Members Introduce Bill to Reverse Pending Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Cut

Measure includes a 1.8% pay increase for clinicians

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<乌鸦传媒>Could RFK Jr. Really Become HHS Secretary?

It seems unlikely, but Washington insiders say they've come to expect the unexpected

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<乌鸦传媒>Brain Edema Risk May Be Lower With Modified Donanemab Dosing

Different regimen showed comparable pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic results

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<乌鸦传媒>Wegovy Cut Albuminuria by Half in Non-Diabetic CKD

However, 24 weeks of the GLP-1 had no impact on eGFR

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<乌鸦传媒>We Can Better Protect Kids From Head Injury in Football

Making youth football safer requires a collective effort

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<乌鸦传媒>Cold Weather Heart Attacks; Preemptive Valve Procedures Flop; Better Bleeding Score

Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine

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<乌鸦传媒>AirPods' Hearing Aid Feature Could Help People Face a Problem They'd Rather Ignore

Apple's new feature can boost voices, media, and phone calls, and maybe lessen stigma

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<乌鸦传媒>Early AKI Care Recommendations Did Not Improve Patient Outcomes

Personalized recs were made by team of physicians and pharmacists within an hour of diagnosis

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<乌鸦传媒>Surprising Mediator Links Poverty and Knee Pain

Study: It's not deprivation per se, but intervening factors that go with it

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<乌鸦传媒>Alzheimer's Trials Investigated; Chronic Pain Predicted; Dementia Drugs and AMD

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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<乌鸦传媒>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

<乌鸦传媒>Promising Findings for Nipocalimab in Myasthenia Gravis

Fixed-schedule infusion offers steady symptom control

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<乌鸦传媒>Why Medicine Is Bad at Customer Service -- And How to Fix It

Healthcare is one of few industries still lacking in convenience

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<乌鸦传媒>SGLT2 Inhibitor Carry-Over Benefits Last How Long?

Trial follow-up defines the need for long-term treatment in protecting the kidneys and heart

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<乌鸦传媒>Kidney Disease Genetic Risk Common in West Africans

Observational study points to genetic risk allele dose-response

<乌鸦传媒>Lasting Effects of Racial Discrimination in Medical School

Discrimination tied to lack of personal, professional development fostered by institutions

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<乌鸦传媒>Low-Volume Bowel Prep Matches Standard for Inpatient Colonoscopy

Patients also found MoviPrep to be more tolerable and were more willing to repeat it

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<乌鸦传媒>Ebola-Like Virus Death in the U.S.; Pill Cuts COVID Spread; What Are Healthy Diets?

Health news and commentary gathered by 乌鸦传媒 staff

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<乌鸦传媒>People Opting Out of Organ Donation After Donor Mistakenly Declared Dead

The alleged incident even affected donations in France

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<乌鸦传媒>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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<乌鸦传媒>No Kidney Benefit With Finerenone in Heart Failure Patients

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

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<乌鸦传媒>Blood Test for CRC Screening Lags Behind Other Options in Cost-Effectiveness Study

Fewer cancers, cancer deaths prevented; higher cost per quality-year saved

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<乌鸦传媒>Filgotinib Maintains RA Efficacy for 3 Years, No New Safety Issues

Looks like FDA blew the call on selective JAK1 inhibitor

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<乌鸦传媒>Obesity May Raise Risk of Long COVID in Youth

Researchers observed dose-response relationship for increasing BMI and long COVID risk

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<乌鸦传媒>What Is the Optimal Reliever Therapy for Difficult-to-Control Asthma?

Meta-analysis says anti-inflammatory relievers beat bronchodilators in reducing exacerbations

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<乌鸦传媒>Complement Inhibitor Shows Promise for Rare Kidney Disorder

Ravulizumab reduced proteinuria, stabilized eGFR in IgA nephropathy

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<乌鸦传媒>A Look at the Supreme Court's Upcoming Term

Public health is on the chopping block once again

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<乌鸦传媒>Study: Medicare's Competitive Bidding Program Not a Danger to COPD Oxygen Users

Prices went down but reductions in new oxygen prescriptions and discontinuations were minimal

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<乌鸦传媒>Remote Patient Monitoring Is a Great Idea. But What's the Best Way to Use It?

We need to figure out how to collect data that patients can really act on

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<乌鸦传媒>Presidential Election Puts the Affordable Care Act Back in the Bull's-Eye

The two parties' goals have stark differences

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<乌鸦传媒>Hospitals' AI Transcription Tool Invents Things No One Ever Said, Researchers Say

Chunks of text or even entire sentences were made up, according to experts

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<乌鸦传媒>Daylight Saving Ends Next Weekend: How to Prepare for the Potential Health Effects

What to know about "falling back"

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<乌鸦传媒>Major Win for Preemptive TAVR in Symptomless Aortic Stenosis

Larger pool of TAVR candidates suggested by EARLY TAVR trial results

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