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<乌鸦传媒>Bell Ringing Not So Joyous for Cancer Patients?

Greater treatment-related distress for those who rang bell at end of treatment

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<乌鸦传媒>The Failed Mental Health System: How Did We Get Here?

Deinstitutionalization's good intentions, bad results -- and many reasons for hope

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<乌鸦传媒>American Healthcare: Increasingly Corporate and Rapacious

And how you can change it

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<乌鸦传媒>Short Course of Furosemide Cuts Higher Post-Partum BP Rates

But no difference in number of days to blood pressure resolution

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<乌鸦传媒>No Difference in Outcomes With Ultrasound-Guided Trial of Labor

French researchers find no significant improvement in maternal-fetal mortality

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<乌鸦传媒>What Nurses Need to Know About Alternative Medicine

How best to integrate CAM into care and how to use caution

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<乌鸦传媒>Study: Mom's Low Health Literacy Puts Herself and Her Newborn at Risk

Prenatal care should address social determinants of health, expert says

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<乌鸦传媒>Antiseptic Cloths No Help Cutting SSI Rates After C-Section

But infection rates were surprisingly low overall, even with placebo wipes

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<乌鸦传媒>Maternal Deaths in Hospitals Fall... but There's Bad News Too

More monitoring after hospital discharge needed, expert says

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<乌鸦传媒>Docs Are Fighting the Good Fight at Immigrant Detention Centers

There's no "loyalty" to keeping them there

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<乌鸦传媒>Taylor Swift Reveals Eating Disorder

Pop singer speaks about her struggles in new documentary.

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<乌鸦传媒>Track the Coronavirus Outbreak on Johns Hopkins Live Dashboard

Realtime infection and death data from five sources

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<乌鸦传媒>Neurology Patients Have Higher Suicide Rates

While suicide is rare, some disorders carry five times more risk

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<乌鸦传媒>Akathisia: A Deadly Imposter

Be on the lookout for it

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<乌鸦传媒>Quick, No-Shock Cardioversion for Afib Feasible in EDs

Sinus rhythm often restored with pharmacological conversion alone, trial finds

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<乌鸦传媒>He Shouldn't Have Died From a Stupid Bleed

We were so close yet so far

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<乌鸦传媒>Linda Ronstadt's Rare Brain Disorder

Iconic singer speaks about her neurological condition

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<乌鸦传媒>Watchful Waiting: An Option for Spontaneous Pneumothorax

Conservative management of primary spontaneous collapsed lung noninferior to intervention

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<乌鸦传媒>When Pregnant Moms Are Distressed, Fetal Brains May Suffer

Anxiety, stress, depression tied to fetal impairment, but what this means after birth is unknown

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<乌鸦传媒>Magic Mushrooms Ease Cancer Anxiety; Olanzapine/Samidorphan NDA Accepted

News and commentary from the psychiatry world

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<乌鸦传媒>Women Burned by Quick Fix for Heavy Periods

For many, 5-minute fix is anything but

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<乌鸦传媒>How We Used FDA MAUDE Data on NovaSure

Attuned to limitations, investigative team used conservative approach

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<乌鸦传媒>'Out of Control' Child Abuse Docs; Harvard Chair Arrested; $116K Hernia Repair

This past week in healthcare investigations

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<乌鸦传媒>Study: Short Hospital Stays OK After Cardiac Surgery

3 days or less "very safe," one center reports

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<乌鸦传媒>How to Handle a Heparin Shortage: Effective Strategies

With supply chain issues in China, it's a real threat, group says

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<乌鸦传媒>Visual Snow Is Real

Migraine, tinnitus are frequent comorbidities

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<乌鸦传媒>Ethics Consult: Hide Cancer Diagnosis From Elderly Patient?

You make the call

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<乌鸦传媒>Scripts for Dead Patients; School Nurse Charged; Life Sentence for 'Angel of Death'

Bad Practice: A weekly roundup of clinicians accused, convicted, or under investigation

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<乌鸦传媒>U.S. Nurses: A Little More Diverse and Grayer

National survey shows small uptick in minority RNs; bigger increase in those over age 50

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<乌鸦传媒>Elagolix Offers Another Treatment Option for Uterine Fibroids

But "it's not a cure for fibroids," expert says

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<乌鸦传媒>'Surprising' Number of Cancer Survivors Use Alcohol

Clinicians urged to step up alcohol screening at regular intervals, intervention

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<乌鸦传媒>Ozempic OK'd for CV Prevention; LDL Drug Pricing; Lyme Disease Heart Tx

Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine

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<乌鸦传媒>New Use for Methotrexate in Spondyloarthritis?

In combination with adalimumab, immunogenicity lowered by half in patients with axial SpA

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<乌鸦传媒>'Dead Doctors Don't Lie'

Pediatrician threatened over vaccine TikTok in "global, coordinated attack"

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<乌鸦传媒>Your Brain on Psilocybin; Probiotics and Parkinson's; Alzheimer's Signaling

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

<乌鸦传媒>VA Goes Too Far on NP Independence

Doctors' morale suffers, and patient care may follow suit

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<乌鸦传媒>Despite New Generic, MS Drug Costs Nearly Triple in 7 Years

Generic glatiramer acetate "had a minimal effect on prices overall"

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<乌鸦传媒>Meet the 'Lien Doctors'; Hidden Clinical Trial Data; Google Nabs More Medical Records

This past week in healthcare investigations

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<乌鸦传媒>How Structural Racism Affects Healthcare

Only by first acknowledging the effects can we work toward transformative changes

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<乌鸦传媒>Mandatory Testing Shows Cognitive Deficits in Late-Career Clinicians

About 13% show problems likely to impair their ability to practice medicine

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