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Morning Break over illustration of a syringe, Covid virus, and DNA helix over a photo of green vegetation.

<乌鸦传媒>Flu-Like Symptoms, Then Amputation; Docs Charge for Emails; Wait List for Psilocybin

Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 乌鸦传媒 staff

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<乌鸦传媒>Weight Loss Supplement Found to Contain Toxic Substance, CDC Says

A toddler landed in the emergency department after consuming the product

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<乌鸦传媒>FDA Panel Favors Dropping OTC Decongestant

Unanimous vote that the drug is ineffective

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<乌鸦传媒>CDC Advisors Support Updated COVID Shots for All

Committee members raised concerns that a more graded recommendation would contribute to inequity

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<乌鸦传媒>Dementia Risk Tied to Sedentary Lifestyle

Ten hours or more a day of sedentary behavior raised risk of incident dementia

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<乌鸦传媒>DEA Gets an Earful About Telehealth Prescribing of Controlled Substances

Proposed in-person visit requirements raises concern for psychiatry groups

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<乌鸦传媒>Here's Another Racial-Ethnic Disparity in Back Pain Care

Nonwhite patients who overuse opioids are given nonpharmacologic alternatives less often

Psych Congress over a photo of Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

<乌鸦传媒>PCPs Often First Stop for Managing Newly Diagnosed Depression

First-year care trajectories looked different than those seeing psychiatrists

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<乌鸦传媒>One PrEP Regimen Linked to Higher Risk of Hypertension, Statin Use Over Another

Use of TAF associated with increased risks within 2 years versus TDF, retrospective study finds

A photo of a female physician with her hand on her hospitalized male patients shoulder.

<乌鸦传媒>Stuck in the Sticking Place

If you want primary care doctors to fix what's ailing our patients, give us the resources we need

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<乌鸦传媒>Lorundrostat Stands a Chance Against Obesity-Related Hypertension

Selective aldosterone synthase inhibitor proceeds to phase III study after Target-HTN's success

A photo of a man sitting on is couch looking at his glass of liquor.

<乌鸦传媒>Less Afib in Heavy Drinkers Who Quit Alcohol Cold Turkey

But reduced intake didn't appear as successful for primary prevention, observational data suggest

Morning Break over illustration of a syringe, Covid virus, and DNA helix over a photo of green vegetation.

<乌鸦传媒>Dog Bite Deaths Rise, First Lady Tests Negative, Parents Targeted in Fentanyl Deaths

Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 乌鸦传媒 staff

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<乌鸦传媒>FDA Reviewers Say OTC Decongestant Doesn't Work

But they acknowledge that taking the only shelf-accessible product off the market raises issues

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<乌鸦传媒>Common Food Additives Singled Out for Cardiovascular Risk

Food labels often list emulsifiers linked to long-term health outcomes

A photo of a senior woman sitting on the table in an examination room.

<乌鸦传媒>What Can Primary Care Physicians Do for Our Aging Population?

Better care begins with a better understanding of age-related changes

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<乌鸦传媒>Deciding Who Is Dead: Physician Group Issues New Statement

American College of Physicians adds to debate about redefining death

<乌鸦传媒>Mandatory Retirement Age for Physicians: Yea or Nay?

Ron Harman King says age alone is arguably a poor indicator of skill

A photo of bags of counterfeit oxycodone pills seized by police.

<乌鸦传媒>CDC: Deaths From Counterfeit Pills Rising

Increase seen particularly in western states and in younger adults

A photo of a person wearing blue rubber gloves and trimming a psilocybin mushroom into doses.

<乌鸦传媒>Single Psilocybin Dose Again Shows Major Depression Benefit

Significant early improvement sustained through day 43 in multicenter study

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<乌鸦传媒>Does Cancer Screening Actually Extend Lives?

A series of articles look at whether the benefits for the few warrant the harms for the many

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<乌鸦传媒>Doctors, Patients Try to Shame Insurers to Reverse Prior Auth Denials

Many have taken to social media to get tests, drugs, and treatments approved

<乌鸦传媒>FDA Drug Approvals: Let Us See All the Evidence

Clinicians and consumers are deprived of the full picture needed for informed decision-making

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<乌鸦传媒>Dementia Risk From Midlife Onward Predicted With New Tool

Novel 14-year risk score draws largely on modifiable risk factors

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<乌鸦传媒>Less Burdensome PTSD Therapy Proves Viable

Written exposure therapy was less time consuming, non-inferior to prolonged exposure therapy

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<乌鸦传媒>Kaiser Permanente's National Expansion Faces Wide Skepticism

Health system is promising better, cheaper care

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<乌鸦传媒>Long COVID Cognitive Research Needs an Overhaul, Task Force Says

Expert group issues recommendations for future studies

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<乌鸦传媒>Allina Doctors File to Unionize

Group of more than 550 clinicians could create largest private-sector union in the country

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<乌鸦传媒>Biden Invests $100 Million to Grow Nursing Workforce

Includes support for trainees, faculty positions, and NPs launching practices

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<乌鸦传媒>Laboring in 90 Degrees, Indoors: Workers Push for Action on Heat-Related Illness

Restaurant workers and others seeking relief through OSHA and Congress

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<乌鸦传媒>Anti-Androgens Can Be Used for PCOS When Oral Contraceptives Can't

"Individual circumstances and perspectives" must be considered, researchers say

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<乌鸦传媒>Some Health Workers See Double the Risk for Fatal Drug Overdoses

Pre-pandemic study finds that RNs and others faced elevated risks

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<乌鸦传媒>Generic Fluticasone鈥揝almeterol Inhaler for COPD Matches Branded Product

Similar incidences of exacerbation, pneumonia hospitalization between inhalers

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<乌鸦传媒>One Size Doesn't Fit All for Automated BP Measurement Cuffs, Trial Finds

"Strikingly inaccurate" readings with ill-fitting cuffs, especially on larger arms

FDA approved zuranolone (Zurzuvae) over a photo of a tired-looking woman sitting on the couch next to a baby stroller.

<乌鸦传媒>FDA OKs First Pill for Postpartum Depression

In one trial, more than twice as many women achieved remission after 2-week treatment course

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<乌鸦传媒>Sugar-Heavy Diet Linked to Development of Kidney Stones

Those who consumed 25% or more of their daily calories from added sugars had the highest odds

<乌鸦传媒>Petition to End Maintenance of Certification Rallies More Than 10K Signers

Physicians push back on "burdensome, costly" program

A photo of the syringes and packaging of Beyfortus 100 mg/ml and 50 mg/ml.

<乌鸦传媒>CDC Advisors Back Therapeutic to Prevent RSV in Infants

Unanimous support for monoclonal antibody for infants and high-risk toddlers as well

A photo of a male physician performing a colonoscopy.

<乌鸦传媒>ACP Sticks With Age 50 for Colorectal Cancer Screening

Guidance conflicts with other new recommendations that screening start at age 45

<乌鸦传媒>Multi-Cancer Early Detection: 20th-Century Fiction Becomes Reality

These tests could soon become a valuable addition to current cancer screening tools

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