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• Nurses sue Westchester Medical, Montefiore, NY Dept. of Health for unsafe working conditions - Lohud

  20-04-2020 23:48
  Nurses sue Westchester Medical, Montefiore, NY Dept. of Health for unsafe working conditions  Lohud
  
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• Appeals court reinstates limits on medical abortions in Texas | TheHill - The Hill

  20-04-2020 23:48
  
  Appeals court reinstates limits on medical abortions in Texas | TheHill  The Hill
  
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• Initiative opens medical records from tens of thousands of outside clinics to DOD, VA physicians - Military Times

  20-04-2020 23:27
  
  Initiative opens medical records from tens of thousands of outside clinics to DOD, VA physicians  Military Times
  
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• Medical Staffing Companies Cut Doctors’ Pay While Spending Millions on Political Ads - ProPublica

  20-04-2020 22:04
  
  Medical Staffing Companies Cut Doctors’ Pay While Spending Millions on Political Ads  ProPublica
  
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• Reading police arrest 5 in theft of $100,000 worth of medical marijuana from growing facility - Reading Eagle

  20-04-2020 21:00
  Reading police arrest 5 in theft of $100,000 worth of medical marijuana from growing facility  Reading Eagle
  
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• Fight or Flight: Does Stress Make Radiation Therapy Less Effective?

  20-04-2020 21:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- A preclinical study simulating "fight or flight" responses showed that reducing stress associated with the response improved tumor control, both locally and at distant sites, after radiation therapy.Reducing β2-adrenergic...
  
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• Wash U To Furlough About 1300 Employees, Many At Medical Campus, Amid Pandemic - St. Louis Public Radio

  20-04-2020 20:31
  
  Wash U To Furlough About 1300 Employees, Many At Medical Campus, Amid Pandemic  St. Louis Public Radio
  
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• Adolescents' Response to Antidepressant Treatments Tough to Predict

  20-04-2020 20:30 via medpagetoday.org
  (MedPage Today) -- Study Authors: Julia Bondar, Arthur Caye, et al.; Toshi A. FurukawaTarget Audience and Goal Statement: Psychiatrists, pediatricians, primary care physicians, neurologists, nursesThe goal of this study was to assess whether...
  
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• Med Students Face Unsure Future During Pandemic

  20-04-2020 20:15 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Medical schools are preparing students for an uncertain future as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on across the U.S., upending a traditionally rigid cycle of admissions, coursework, and exams.Among the hardest-hit are second-year...
  
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• Do 9/11 Firefighters Really Get More Thyroid Cancer?

  20-04-2020 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Cases of thyroid cancer were significantly higher in men involved in 9/11 rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center (WTC), but this increased incidence may not be solely attributable to exposure to the WTC, researchers...
  
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• Decision Aid Cuts Breast Cancer Screening in the Elderly

  20-04-2020 19:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Providing older women with details on the potential harms and benefits of breast cancer screening resulted in a nearly 10% drop in routine mammography, a cluster randomized trial found.Among nearly 550 women ages 75 and older...
  
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• Finding the Good in COVID-19

  20-04-2020 19:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- To say that it is an interesting time in the world right now would be an astonishing understatement. It's incredible how COVID-19 started off in one city and within weeks spread all over the world. If I were to personify COVID...
  
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• Missed Young-Onset Colon Cancers: It's Not the Guidelines' Fault

  20-04-2020 19:15 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Consistently implemented, current recommendations for family history-based screening could potentially improve the detection and prevention of early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC), an analysis of international cancer registries...
  
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• Primary Care Docs Weigh in on Opioid Use Disorder

  20-04-2020 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- One-third of primary care physicians do not think medications to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) are more effective than non-medication treatment or are safe for long-term use, a national survey of family, internal, and general...
  
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• C-Section at First Delivery Tied to Impaired Future Fertility

  20-04-2020 18:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Women who delivered their first child by cesarean section were less likely to have another baby within the next 3 years than those who delivered vaginally, according to a prospective cohort study.C-section was associated with...
  
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• Screen Time for Babies Tied to Autism Symptoms Later

  20-04-2020 18:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Babies who watched television or video screens when they were 12 months old showed more autism-like symptoms when they reached age 2, a prospective study showed.Similarly, 12-month-old infants who had daily play with their...
  
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• NYC Public Hospital Staff Protest Doctor's Note Policy

  20-04-2020 18:15 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- NEW YORK CITY--"We are essential, we are not expendable," chanted about 100 public hospital employees who rallied outside Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx Friday.The group was protesting a recent memo from the NYC Health...
  
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• US medical workers stand up to anti-lockdown protesters - Al Jazeera English

  20-04-2020 18:09
  
  US medical workers stand up to anti-lockdown protesters  Al Jazeera English
  
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• What Don't We Know About COVID-19 Severity, Seasonality

  20-04-2020 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- In this exclusive MedPage Today video, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, discusses the unknowns about severe COVID-19 disease, transmissibility, and the potential impact of seasonality in trying...
  
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• Want to Fix the Healthcare System? Leave It to the Professionals -- Us

  20-04-2020 17:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Fixing the healthcare system--before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.About a dozen years ago, I recall a talk we heard from a visiting faculty member who was sounding the alarm about emerging viral infections...
  
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• Tx for Worsening Dyspnea Appeared to Help, But Led to Tragic Results

  20-04-2020 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Case shows importance of monitoring key antibody level
  
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• Fear of the False Negative COVID-19 Test

  20-04-2020 16:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Infectious disease specialist Gonzalo Ballon-Landa, MD, of Scripps Health in San Diego, was a bit bewildered. One of his patients who had all the signs and symptoms of COVID-19 had tested negative with the nasopharyngeal swab...
  
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• NIST and OSTP Launch Effort to Improve Search Engines for COVID-19 Research

  20-04-2020 16:04 via nlm.nih.gov
  Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) launched a joint effort to support the development of search engines for research that will help in the fight against COVID-19.
  
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• COVID-19: Not Your Typical ARDS?

  20-04-2020 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- Clinicians treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients have remarked about how it differs from typical acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sparking debate about the best course of treatment.Driving their concerns is the...
  
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• Choosing a medical school during COVID-19 - AAMC

  20-04-2020 15:35
  
  Choosing a medical school during COVID-19  AAMC
  
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• First-Ever FDA Approval for Cholangiocarcinoma

  20-04-2020 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON--The fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitor pemigatinib (Pemazyre) received the first-ever FDA approval for cholangiocarcinoma associated with FGFR-2 gene fusions or certain other rearrangements.The...
  
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• Lockdowns Affecting HIV Trials/Treatment in Africa

  20-04-2020 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- This year, the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. One study author who presented virtually, Rashida Ferrand, MD, is currently...
  
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• Tanezumab Shows Promise for Difficult-to-Treat Osteoarthritis

  20-04-2020 14:30 via medpagetoday.org
  (MedPage Today) -- Study Authors: Francis Berenbaum, Francisco J. Blanco, et al.Target Audience and Goal Statement: Rheumatologists, pain specialistsThe goal of this study was to evaluate the benefit/risk profile of the nerve growth factor...
  
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• Women's Suffrage and Its Impact on Medicine

  20-04-2020 14:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  ]]>(MedPage Today) -- August 18, 1920: women gain the right to vote and the law was ratified in the U.S. to make it the 19th Amendment. This year marks the 100th anniversary of this historic moment. A lot has changed since the 1920s--four waves...
  
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• Robert Plant makes "generous" donation towards frontline medical supplies - NME Live

  20-04-2020 12:23
  
  Robert Plant makes "generous" donation towards frontline medical supplies  NME Live
  
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• The new normal: Graduating medical student to join father, sister on front lines of fighting COVID-19 - The Oakland Press

  20-04-2020 12:00
  The new normal: Graduating medical student to join father, sister on front lines of fighting COVID-19  The Oakland Press
  
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• Medical Minute: Attempts to reopen economy amid pandemic - ABC 57 News

  20-04-2020 12:00
  
  Medical Minute: Attempts to reopen economy amid pandemic  ABC 57 News
  
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• Pella Regional Continues to Provide Needed Medical Services - KNIA / KRLS Radio

  20-04-2020 11:56
  
  Pella Regional Continues to Provide Needed Medical Services  KNIA / KRLS Radio
  
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• Medical Headhunters Drawing Thousands of Nurses to Virus Hotspots - Bloomberg Law

  20-04-2020 11:37
  
  Medical Headhunters Drawing Thousands of Nurses to Virus Hotspots  Bloomberg Law
  
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• Minister: Visit by 20 Ukrainian medical volunteers to Italy prolonged | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post

  20-04-2020 11:35
  
  Minister: Visit by 20 Ukrainian medical volunteers to Italy prolonged | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice  Kyiv Post
  
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• Team scours NYC medical offices for equipment to fight coronavirus - New York Daily News

  20-04-2020 11:30
  Team scours NYC medical offices for equipment to fight coronavirus  New York Daily News
  
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• Medical Writing Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Type, By Application, By End Use, By Region And Segment Forecasts, 2020 - 2027 - GlobeNewswire

  20-04-2020 11:19
  
  Medical Writing Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Type, By Application, By End Use, By Region And Segment Forecasts, 2020 - 2027  GlobeNewswire
  
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• Coronavirus: Medical advisers 'lying to support government with collapsing credibility', says Lancet editor - Yahoo Sports

  20-04-2020 11:19
  
  Coronavirus: Medical advisers 'lying to support government with collapsing credibility', says Lancet editor  Yahoo Sports
  
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• Where can Columbia’s uninsured find health care? Free clinic open amid COVID-19 crisis - The State

  20-04-2020 11:10
  
  Where can Columbia’s uninsured find health care? Free clinic open amid COVID-19 crisis  The State
  
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• GTX Medical BV Appoints John Murphy as Chief Technology Officer - Business Wire

  20-04-2020 11:00
  
  GTX Medical BV Appoints John Murphy as Chief Technology Officer  Business Wire
  
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• I graduated from medical school early to fight the coronavirus pandemic - ABC News

  20-04-2020 10:18
  
  I graduated from medical school early to fight the coronavirus pandemic  ABC News
  
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• EDAN to Dispatch Thousands of Medical Devices to NHS Nightingale - PRNewswire

  20-04-2020 10:12
  EDAN to Dispatch Thousands of Medical Devices to NHS Nightingale  PRNewswire
  
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• Letter: OU medical graduates are ready at critical time - The Columbus Dispatch

  20-04-2020 10:11
  Letter: OU medical graduates are ready at critical time  The Columbus Dispatch
  
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• Los Angeles is deploying medical street teams to help protect homeless people from coronavirus - KCTV Kansas City

  20-04-2020 10:03
  Los Angeles is deploying medical street teams to help protect homeless people from coronavirus  KCTV Kansas City
  
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• 'I Have the Equipment, I Have The Knowledge.' Pittsburgher Makes, Donates Medical Face Shields - 90.5 WESA

  20-04-2020 10:03
  
  'I Have the Equipment, I Have The Knowledge.' Pittsburgher Makes, Donates Medical Face Shields  90.5 WESA
  
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• Medical students are joining the front lines in the fight against COVID-19. Let's cheer them (opinion) - Inside Higher Ed

  20-04-2020 09:03
  
  Medical students are joining the front lines in the fight against COVID-19. Let's cheer them (opinion)  Inside Higher Ed
  
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• BRIEF-Avita Medical Seeks Trading Halt - Reuters

  20-04-2020 08:42
  
  BRIEF-Avita Medical Seeks Trading Halt  Reuters
  
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• Hamas: Israel Will Be Blamed for Virus Outbreak If No Medical Supplies Delivered - Asharq Al-awsat English

  20-04-2020 08:34
  
  Hamas: Israel Will Be Blamed for Virus Outbreak If No Medical Supplies Delivered  Asharq Al-awsat English
  
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• Lady Gaga dedicates 'Together at Home' concert to 'medical workers that are putting their lives at risk' - CNN

  20-04-2020 07:45
  
  Lady Gaga dedicates 'Together at Home' concert to 'medical workers that are putting their lives at risk'  CNN
  
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• The future of medical technology devices in the time of COVID-19 - MobiHealthNews

  20-04-2020 07:34
  
  The future of medical technology devices in the time of COVID-19  MobiHealthNews
  
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