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• Fauci to speak at UVa Medical Center Hour virtual event open to all - The Daily Progress

  16-11-2020 22:28
  
  Fauci to speak at UVa Medical Center Hour virtual event open to all  The Daily Progress
  
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• AMA: Racism is a threat to public health - American Medical Association

  16-11-2020 21:46
  
  AMA: Racism is a threat to public health  American Medical Association
  
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• Year in Review: Major Depressive Disorder

  16-11-2020 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- With this year's COVID-19 pandemic, a major shift in focus has been placed on America's mental health.
  According to CDC data released in August, almost 11% of American adults seriously contemplated suicide in June, and nearly...
  
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• Albert R. Jonsen, 89, Dies; Brought Medical Ethics to the Bedside - The New York Times

  16-11-2020 19:49
  
  Albert R. Jonsen, 89, Dies; Brought Medical Ethics to the Bedside  The New York Times
  
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• Novel Screening Approach Promising for Silent CAD

  16-11-2020 19:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- About four in 10 people, ages 50-64, had subclinical coronary artery disease (CAD), and about one in 20 had serious CAD, with at least one coronary vessel having at least a 50% stenosis, a researcher reported.
  Among more than...
  
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• VITAL-AF, mSToPS: Mixed Results in Afib Screening

  16-11-2020 19:15 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Whether screening for atrial fibrillation (Afib) improved detection rates depended on how screening was administered and in whom, research suggested.
  The VITAL-AF trial showed that point-of-care screening did not result in more...
  
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• Q&A: Mike Alkire, Head of Premier, the Medical Supply Giant

  16-11-2020 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen in the U.S., personal protective equipment (PPE) and other healthcare supplies are once again coming into shortage. MedPage Today Washington Editor Joyce Frieden recently spoke with...
  
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• AMA Delegates Urge More COVID Financial Relief for Docs

  16-11-2020 18:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Pandemic-related money woes were a significant concern for attendees at the American Medical Association (AMA) virtual Special Meeting of its House of Delegates.
  The New York delegation introduced a policy recommendation calling...
  
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• Medical product maker bringing 68 jobs to Rocky Mount - Spring Hope Enterprise

  16-11-2020 18:38
  Medical product maker bringing 68 jobs to Rocky Mount  Spring Hope Enterprise
  
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• ACA's Medicaid Expansion Tied to Reduced Liver Disease Mortality

  16-11-2020 18:15 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Trends in liver mortality from end-stage liver disease shifted sharply in states that expanded Medicaid enrollment under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with progressively fewer deaths overall and especially in racial minorities...
  
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• Older Age Should Not Deter Use of LDL Cholesterol-Lowering Treatment

  16-11-2020 18:00 via medpagetoday.org
  (MedPage Today) -- Study Authors: Martin Bødtker Mortensen, Børge Grønne Nordestgaard; Baris Gencer, Nicholas A. Marston, et al.; Frederick J. Raal, Farzahna MohamedTarget Audience and Goal Statement: Cardiologists, primary care...
  
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• Skip Rhythm Drugs, Go Straight to Cryoablation for Afib

  16-11-2020 17:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- For paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (Afib), heading straight to cryoablation kept more patients in sinus rhythm at 1 year than trying rhythm control drugs first, two randomized trials showed.
  In the EARLY-AF trial, recurrence...
  
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• AMA Delegates Examine COVID-19 Telehealth Change

  16-11-2020 17:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Physicians discussed the best way to advocate for new flexibilities in telemedicine granted to patients and clinicians due to the COVID-19 pandemic, during the American Medical Association virtual Special Meeting of its House...
  
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• Novel Biologic Effective for Both Allergic, Non-Allergic Asthma

  16-11-2020 17:15 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The investigational monoclonal antibody tezepelumab proved to be an effective therapy for uncontrolled severe asthma in patients with and without perennial and seasonal allergies, a post-hoc analysis of data from the phase II...
  
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• Connection Between Sudden Hearing Loss and COVID-19?

  16-11-2020 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Case serves as warning about missing the "treatment window"
  
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• Chronic Liver Conditions Raise Risk of Death in COVID-19 Patients

  16-11-2020 16:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with chronic liver disease were at increased risk for poor COVID-19 outcomes, and liver-specific risk factors included alcoholic liver disease, hepatocellular carcinoma, and decompensated cirrhosis, a researcher said...
  
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• AMA Delegates: No GME Funds for Non-Physicians

  16-11-2020 16:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The American Medical Association (AMA) must protect physicians' scope of practice by making sure federal funding for graduate medical education (GME) does not go to non-physicians, several members of the AMA's House of Delegates...
  
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• When a Huge Effort Still Isn't Enough

  16-11-2020 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- At the end of the summer, when some of the restrictions in New York City started to lighten up, we moved to restart and revitalize our practices after those first few terrible months of the pandemic.
  As I've previously written...
  
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• 'Next-Gen' Immunotherapy Active in Advanced Cancers

  16-11-2020 15:31 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- An investigational drug that combines PD-1/L1 inhibition and T-cell stimulation led to disease control in two-thirds of patients with unresectable advanced solid malignancies, a preliminary clinical study showed.
  Overall, 40...
  
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• AMA Policy Throws Shade on Diehard HCQ Docs

  16-11-2020 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Despite the evidence that has shown that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine aren't effective for patients with COVID-19, a frustrated group of physicians are urging the American Medical Association (AMA) to rescind its March...
  
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• Fauci on Moderna COVID-19 Vax: 'Our Aspirations Have Been Met'

  16-11-2020 14:16 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Moderna's mRNA-1273 vaccine against COVID-19 showed 95% vaccine effectiveness in an interim analysis performed after 95 participants developed the illness, a press release from the manufacturer said on Monday.
  An independent...
  
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• ANGPTL3 Blocker Halves LDL in High-Risk Group

  16-11-2020 14:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with refractory familial hypercholesterolemia that cannot be controlled with statins and PCSK9 inhibitors appeared to respond to evinacumab, a novel, fully human monoclonal antibody that inhibits angiopoietin-like 3...
  
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• Dogs in the Home May Keep Kids' IgE in Check

  16-11-2020 13:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Owning a dog while pregnant appeared to shape children's immune systems well into adolescence, a researcher reported.
  In a cohort of 1,193 mother-child pairs in southeast Michigan, the area under the curve for immunoglobulin...
  
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• What Doctors Need From Telemedicine; Healthcare Use Down Despite Virtual Visits

  16-11-2020 13:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to Telehealth Roundup, highlighting news and features about emerging trends in telemedicine and telehealth.
  What Doctors Need From Telemedicine
  Well before the telehealth explosion, doctors were experiencing what "neuroscientist...
  
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• CAR-T Yields High Responses in ALL Across Trials

  16-11-2020 12:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Eighty percent of patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) achieved complete remission after treatment with anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, pooled data from 35 different...
  
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• Some Policies Aimed at Childhood Obesity Aren't Cutting It

  16-11-2020 12:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Children have become increasingly weight conscious over the past several decades and public health interventions designed to alert or remind families of children's weight status may not be having their intended effect, suggested...
  
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• To Build Trust on COVID Vax in Black Community, Learn From the Flu

  16-11-2020 11:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Ever since the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 became a global public health threat, we have been told that the pandemic will not end until we have a vaccine that is both safe and effective. But what good is a vaccine...
  
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• UVM Medical Center not allowing visitors - WCAX

  16-11-2020 11:23
  
  UVM Medical Center not allowing visitors  WCAX
  
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• Finding Your Place in The Medical Field - Michigan Medicine

  16-11-2020 11:00
  
  Finding Your Place in The Medical Field  Michigan Medicine
  
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• Moderna Vax 95% Effective; 11 Million U.S. Cases; Thanksgiving Surge Ahead

  16-11-2020 10:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
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  Moderna said its COVID-19 vaccine had almost 95% efficacy, meeting its primary efficacy endpoint. Check back at MedPage Today for details.
  As of Monday at 8:00...
  
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• New AMA policy recognizes racism as a public health threat - American Medical Association

  16-11-2020 09:00
  
  New AMA policy recognizes racism as a public health threat  American Medical Association
  
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• Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) of Medical Devices - FDA.gov

  16-11-2020 01:00
  
  Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) of Medical Devices  FDA.gov
  
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