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• Do Psychiatric Events With HCQ Reported in COVID-19 Extend to Rheumatoid Arthritis?

  12-01-2021 21:00 via medpagetoday.org
  (MedPage Today) -- Study Authors: Jennifer C. E. Lane, James Weaver, et al.Target Audience and Goal Statement: Rheumatologists, primary care physicians, psychiatristsThe goal of this study was to determine if there was a risk of incident depression...
  
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• Dr. Dre's Brain Aneurysm

  12-01-2021 20:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Rapper and entrepreneur Dr. Dre, 55, was hospitalized earlier this month after suffering symptoms related to a brain aneurysm. He was taken by ambulance to Cedar Sinai hospital in Los Angeles where he was admitted to the intensive...
  
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• COVID's Indirect Toll on the Heart

  12-01-2021 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- COVID-19 has had an indirect toll on heart health around the world, as cardiovascular testing volumes plummeted and cardiovascular deaths rose in 2020, researchers found.
  CDC data revealed that in the first U.S. coronavirus...
  
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• HHS Tells States to Open Vaccine Access to Vulnerable Adults

  12-01-2021 19:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration announced it will stop withholding portions of its COVID-19 vaccine supply for second doses, and instead free up all available doses so that states can vaccinate people ages 65 and over, as well as adults...
  
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• Alzheimer's Progression Tracks With Blood Biomarkers

  12-01-2021 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Blood-based biomarkers paralleled the progression of Alzheimer's disease neurodegeneration, a large longitudinal cohort study showed.
  Increases of phosphorylated tau at threonine 181 (p-tau181) in blood plasma over time were...
  
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• Maternal Opioid Use and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Still on the Rise

  12-01-2021 18:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid disorders among mothers continued to rise during the last decade, according to a cross-sectional study.
  From 2010 to 2017, the estimated national neonatal abstinence syndrome rate increased...
  
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• Fecal Transplants Safe Long Term for Recurrent C. Diff

  12-01-2021 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- More evidence has emerged for fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) as a safe option for treating recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), according to a survey-based study.FMT was safe in both the short and long...
  
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• How Does Laparoscopic Lavage for Perforated Diverticulitis Perform in Long Term?

  12-01-2021 17:30 via medpagetoday.org
  (MedPage Today) -- Study Authors: Najia Azhar, Anette Johanssen, et al.; Kellie E. Cunningham, Brian S. ZuckerbraunTarget Audience and Goal Statement: Gastroenterologists, colorectal surgeonsThe goal of this study was to compare long-term outcomes...
  
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• How Can I Laugh During a Pandemic?

  12-01-2021 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- I just started laughing. It was early on Monday morning during our COVID surge. I couldn't help myself. Phones were not on yet, but I already had triage COVID calls. "Put on your roller skates" was all I was thinking. I questioned...
  
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• Op-Ed: Public Schools Should (Almost Always) Stay Open

  12-01-2021 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Schools present a tradeoff. When they're open, society benefits from the essential services schools provide: education, child abuse reporting, hot meals, and socio-emotional development. Closing them may theoretically slow viral...
  
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• Amyloidosis Tx Scores; 'Natriuretic Peptide Deficiency'; Statin During Chemo

  12-01-2021 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Novel RNAi drug vutrisiran met its primary endpoint in topline results from the phase III HELIOS-A trial in patients with hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis with polyneuropathy and improved the exploratory cardiac...
  
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• Controversial Physician Joined in Storming the Capitol

  12-01-2021 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The founder of America's Frontline Doctors--the physician group notorious for spreading misinformation about COVID-19--confirmed that she participated in the riot on Capitol Hill last week.
  Simone Gold, MD, JD, a California...
  
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• Augmented RIC No Help in Transplant for AML

  12-01-2021 14:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- A sequential augmented reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen failed to improve post-transplant outcomes for patients with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or myelodysplasia (MDS), a randomized trial showed.
  Neither...
  
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• Ibrutinib Plus Lenalidomide and Rituximab Shows Promise in R/R MCL

  12-01-2021 14:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- At December's American Society of Hematology (ASH) virtual meeting, data from the PHILEMON phase II trial were presented, which evaluated a regimen of ibrutinib, lenalidomide, and rituximab in patients with relapsed/refractory...
  
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• For Lupus Mental Health, Physical Activity Matters

  12-01-2021 13:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Inactivity among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was associated with a more than threefold increased risk for development of depression, researchers reported.
  Among patients who described themselves as inactive...
  
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• Hospitals: Stop Playing Vaccine Games and Show Leadership

  12-01-2021 13:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- America's hospitals are supposed to be the center of scientific genius, but in stewarding the COVID-19 vaccine, many hospitals have been the center of poor management and cronyism. Wealthy health systems with thousands of employees...
  
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• Can Your iPhone Spot Cognitive Decline?; Stem Cells for TBI; Cannabis for Pain

  12-01-2021 12:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Biogen and Apple said they will study how the Apple Watch and iPhone can help monitor cognitive performance and screen for changes like mild cognitive impairment.
  Inhibiting mitochondrial complex I reduced neurodegeneration...
  
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• Watch for Suicidality in People With Autism

  12-01-2021 12:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) carry a higher risk for suicide, a Danish study found.
  A nationwide cohort study of over 35,000 individuals with autism found a more than three-fold higher rate of both suicide attempt...
  
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• Biogen and Apple partner on cognitive health study

  12-01-2021 10:41 via pharmatimes.com
  
  Study will evaluate the role of smart devices on monitoring cognitive health
  
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• ICR researchers identify potential new treatment for drug-resistant prostate cancer

  12-01-2021 10:40 via pharmatimes.com
  
  CCS1477 has a novel mechanism of action compared to existing treatments
  
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• UK government unveils ‘largest vaccination programme in British history’

  12-01-2021 10:39 via pharmatimes.com
  
  Plan aims to rapidly scale-up COVID-19 vaccination programme
  
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• DHSC publishes ‘UK Rare Disease Framework’

  12-01-2021 10:39 via pharmatimes.com
  
  Framework identifies four key priorities and five 'underpinning themes'
  
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• House Members Test Positive; Vax Policy Reversal; Plasma Trial Flops

  12-01-2021 10:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
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  Two House members said they tested positive for COVID-19 after sheltering from Capitol rioters in a secure room last Wednesday: Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), a...
  
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