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• Leo Moore, Medical Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health - KTLA Los Angeles

  31-01-2020 23:24
  Leo Moore, Medical Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health  KTLA Los Angeles
  
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• Cape Fear Valley defends its billing of rape victims for medical costs - WRAL.com

  31-01-2020 23:18
  
  Cape Fear Valley defends its billing of rape victims for medical costs  WRAL.com
  
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• A-State to explore feasibility of first in-state veterinary medical school, officials say - KAIT

  31-01-2020 23:10
  
  A-State to explore feasibility of first in-state veterinary medical school, officials say  KAIT
  
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• A-State to explore feasibility of first in-state veterinary medical school in state, officials say - KAIT

  31-01-2020 23:10
  
  A-State to explore feasibility of first in-state veterinary medical school in state, officials say  KAIT
  
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• Pickup truck injures Maryland road workers when driver suffers medical issue - WTOP

  31-01-2020 23:02
  
  Pickup truck injures Maryland road workers when driver suffers medical issue  WTOP
  
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• USMNT's Antonee Robinson's move to AC Milan falls through after medical, Wigan reveals - MLSsoccer.com

  31-01-2020 22:53
  
  USMNT's Antonee Robinson's move to AC Milan falls through after medical, Wigan reveals  MLSsoccer.com
  
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• US IPO Weekly Recap: One Medical pops 57.6% in 5-IPO week - Nasdaq

  31-01-2020 22:49
  
  US IPO Weekly Recap: One Medical pops 57.6% in 5-IPO week  Nasdaq
  
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• Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center dedicates new portrait of namesake - Live 5 News WCSC

  31-01-2020 22:28
  
  Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center dedicates new portrait of namesake  Live 5 News WCSC
  
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• Medical marijuana program tries to clarify what makes a one-day supply - The Columbus Dispatch

  31-01-2020 22:01
  Medical marijuana program tries to clarify what makes a one-day supply  The Columbus Dispatch
  
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• Women charged with pulling mom seeking medical care off ambulance - WSFA

  31-01-2020 20:39
  
  Women charged with pulling mom seeking medical care off ambulance  WSFA
  
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• WATCH: Car crashes into north Spokane home after driver suffers medical issue - KHQ Right Now

  31-01-2020 20:27
  WATCH: Car crashes into north Spokane home after driver suffers medical issue  KHQ Right Now
  
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• These medical device companies provide the most research payments - Mass Device

  31-01-2020 20:15
  
  These medical device companies provide the most research payments  Mass Device
  
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• Women charged with pulling mom seeking medical care off ambulance - WBRC

  31-01-2020 20:13
  
  Women charged with pulling mom seeking medical care off ambulance  WBRC
  
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• iMedicalApps: ACR Guidance

  31-01-2020 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- One of the steepest learning curves in residency education is deciding what imaging tests to order for patients.Should I order an x-ray first or go straight to computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)? Do...
  
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• McLaren Flint welcomes vascular surgeon to medical staff - Fenton Tri County Times

  31-01-2020 19:15
  
  McLaren Flint welcomes vascular surgeon to medical staff  Fenton Tri County Times
  
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• "I Was Leery, but I Trusted My Doctor": What We Heard This Week

  31-01-2020 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- "I was leery, but I trusted my doctor."--Tanya Perry, one of many patients who experienced endometrial ablation failure after treatment with the NovaSure device for heavy menstrual bleeds."The medical-industrial complex...
  
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• Oral Peanut Allergy Tx OK'd

  31-01-2020 18:59 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON--Aimmune Therapeutics' oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy gained FDA approval late Friday, for treating individuals age 4-17, the agency said.To be sold as Palforzia, the product consists of purified peanut...
  
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• One Medical stock jumps nearly 60% on first day of trading - ModernHealthcare.com

  31-01-2020 18:55
  
  One Medical stock jumps nearly 60% on first day of trading  ModernHealthcare.com
  
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• Common Diuretic May Ease Autism Symptoms

  31-01-2020 18:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- More evidence has emerged that the diuretic drug bumetanide may help treat autism symptoms, a small neuroimaging study showed.Young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who were treated with bumetanide for three months...
  
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• U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency for Coronavirus

  31-01-2020 18:18 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Citing the U.S. cases of novel coronavirus, including one case of human-to-human transmission and several unknown factors, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency in the U.S. on Friday...
  
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• Cookies, a California-based medical marijuana shop opens in Detroit - FOX 2 Detroit

  31-01-2020 18:09
  
  Cookies, a California-based medical marijuana shop opens in Detroit  FOX 2 Detroit
  
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• AHRQ Predicts Rise in CRT Pacing, Quadripolar Leads

  31-01-2020 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) devices still aren't definitively better than CRT pacing, and the evidence is unclear for intermediate ejection fraction (EF) patients, an Agency for Healthcare Research...
  
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• Lexington Medical Center sued over medical debt collection - The State

  31-01-2020 17:54
  Lexington Medical Center sued over medical debt collection  The State
  
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• Kevin McHale sues Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor over medical device mess - City Pages

  31-01-2020 17:38
  
  Kevin McHale sues Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor over medical device mess  City Pages
  
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• Medical examiner identifies man fatally shot in car in West Akron - cleveland.com

  31-01-2020 17:34
  
  Medical examiner identifies man fatally shot in car in West Akron  cleveland.com
  
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• More Fuel for the Colon Cancer Screening Age Debate

  31-01-2020 17:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Analysis of colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence by age in the U.S. revealed a spike right when screening is recommended to begin, indicating that many latent tumors go undiagnosed ahead of routine colonoscopy.The incidence of...
  
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• Far-Reaching Effects of Asymptomatic Coronavirus Transmission

  31-01-2020 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- With asymptomatic transmission of novel coronavirus confirmed outside China, plans to identify the virus by current screening measures may not be enough."This underlines that ... trying to keep out people symptomatic with respiratory...
  
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• Medical marijuana patients, businesses prepare for march at Oklahoma State Capitol - KFOR Oklahoma City

  31-01-2020 16:52
  Medical marijuana patients, businesses prepare for march at Oklahoma State Capitol  KFOR Oklahoma City
  
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• ER Doc Confronts VP Pence on Medicaid Block Grants

  31-01-2020 16:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- An emergency physician from Michigan ran into Vice President Mike Pence in an Iowa diner Thursday and pressed him on how the newly announced Medicaid block grant program would affect patients across the country--and didn...
  
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• Woman charged with pulling mom seeking medical care off ambulance - WTVY, Dothan

  31-01-2020 16:24
  
  Woman charged with pulling mom seeking medical care off ambulance  WTVY, Dothan
  
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• Swedish Medical Center workers end 3-day strike; some workers turned away while temporary replacements finish 5-day contracts - Seattle Times

  31-01-2020 16:07
  
  Swedish Medical Center workers end 3-day strike; some workers turned away while temporary replacements finish 5-day contracts  Seattle Times
  
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• Three Licenses Awarded in City - Related to Medical Marijuana - The Missourian

  31-01-2020 16:00
  Three Licenses Awarded in City - Related to Medical Marijuana  The Missourian
  
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• FDA OK's Trijardy XR; Dual Hormone Artificial Pancreas

  31-01-2020 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly's triple action extended release diabetes pill Trijardy XR, combining empagliflozin (Jardiance), linagliptin (Tradjenta), and metformin hydrochloride.A dual hormone artificial...
  
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• American Airlines flight headed to Chicago is diverted for medical emergency, unruly passenger - Chicago Sun-Times

  31-01-2020 15:44
  
  American Airlines flight headed to Chicago is diverted for medical emergency, unruly passenger  Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Get Rapid Access to Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Sequence Data from NLM’s GenBank®

  31-01-2020 15:35 via nlm.nih.gov
  NLM, through its GenBank® sequence database, is providing the biomedical community free and easy access to genome sequences from the novel coronavirus associated with the recent outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a global health emergency on January 30, 2020 and GenBank® continues to rapidly release data associated with this outbreak as it comes in and welcomes sequence data submissions as well.
  
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• Dr. Julian L. Ambrus Sr., 95, prominent physician and medical researcher - Buffalo News

  31-01-2020 15:25
  
  Dr. Julian L. Ambrus Sr., 95, prominent physician and medical researcher  Buffalo News
  
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• Can't afford your medical bill? Here's what you can do - CBS News

  31-01-2020 15:19
  
  Can't afford your medical bill? Here's what you can do  CBS News
  
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• First thoughts on One Medical's IPO pricing - TechCrunch

  31-01-2020 15:15
  First thoughts on One Medical's IPO pricing  TechCrunch
  
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• Antisense Therapy Promising in Heart Disease Subset

  31-01-2020 15:00 via medpagetoday.org
  (MedPage Today) -- Study Authors: Sotirios Tsimikas, Ewa Karwatowska-Prokopczuk, et al.Target Audience and Goal Statement: Cardiologists, hematologists, vascular specialists, hepatologists, family physicians, primary care physiciansThe goal...
  
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• Judge: FDNY Firefighters with Medical Issue Can Skip Shaving - Firehouse.com

  31-01-2020 14:22
  Judge: FDNY Firefighters with Medical Issue Can Skip Shaving  Firehouse.com
  
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• Start with Anti-TNF in RA? Not So Fast

  31-01-2020 14:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- The suggestion to hit rheumatoid arthritis (RA) early and hard with biologic therapies itself took a hit in a new study.Use of first-line etanercept (Enbrel) plus methotrexate in very early RA was not associated with a substantially...
  
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• Phoenix man having medical issue dies after good Samaritan tries to help - AZFamily

  31-01-2020 13:33
  
  Phoenix man having medical issue dies after good Samaritan tries to help  AZFamily
  
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• Nurse Murder Cover-Up; Doc Sentenced in Insys Scheme; Gyn Exam for Oral Sores?

  31-01-2020 13:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- This weekly roundup features arrests, criminal proceedings, and other reports alleging improper or questionable conduct by healthcare professionals.Admitting to helping her secret boyfriend hide evidence that he murdered his...
  
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• Medical mystery: What caused unusual blisters and itching on a boy with eczema? - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  31-01-2020 12:01
  
  Medical mystery: What caused unusual blisters and itching on a boy with eczema?  The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Why We Can't Stop Eating Unhealthy Foods

  31-01-2020 12:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Register for TEDMED 2020Boston, March 2-4, 2020In this video from 2016, University of California San Francisco health policy professor Laura Schmidt, PhD, questions whether consumers really do have freedom of choice...
  
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• Ethics Consult: Hiding Dx from Elderly Cancer Patient? MD/JD Bangs the Gavel

  31-01-2020 11:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to Ethics Consult--an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma in patient care, you vote, and then we present an expert's judgment.Last week, you voted on if...
  
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• Morning Break: Coronavirus Panic; Medicaid Pushback; EPA Clears Glyphosate

  31-01-2020 10:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
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  Responses to the novel coronavirus outbreak begin to look like panic, with some countries now banning flights from China, and airlines canceling service to the country. (Reuters...
  
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• Medical surveillance allowed China to discover novel coronavirus - Business Insider - Business Insider

  31-01-2020 09:00
  
  Medical surveillance allowed China to discover novel coronavirus - Business Insider  Business Insider
  
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• Vegas medical store sells 250K face masks amid coronavirus outbreak - KTNV Las Vegas

  31-01-2020 07:51
  
  Vegas medical store sells 250K face masks amid coronavirus outbreak  KTNV Las Vegas
  
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• OSF HealthCare LCMH Medical Center Merger Takes Effect Saturday - Evergreen Park, IL Patch

  31-01-2020 07:22
  
  OSF HealthCare LCMH Medical Center Merger Takes Effect Saturday  Evergreen Park, IL Patch
  
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