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• Will I get arrested for having medical marijuana in South Dakota? - KELOLAND.com

  01-07-2021 23:16
  Will I get arrested for having medical marijuana in South Dakota?  KELOLAND.com
  
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• Supreme Court refuses to reconsider medical marijuana ruling - Mississippi Today

  01-07-2021 23:14
  
  Supreme Court refuses to reconsider medical marijuana ruling  Mississippi Today
  
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• Roommate of girl who died at Lakeland boarding school says medical requests were not taken seriously - FOX 13 Tampa Bay

  01-07-2021 23:10
  
  Roommate of girl who died at Lakeland boarding school says medical requests were not taken seriously  FOX 13 Tampa Bay
  
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• VA hospitals continue not to prescribe medical marijuana - Spectrum News

  01-07-2021 23:00
  
  VA hospitals continue not to prescribe medical marijuana  Spectrum News
  
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• Outset Medical Announces Departure of CFO and Appointment of Nabeel Ahmed as Interim CFO - Business Wire

  01-07-2021 23:00
  
  Outset Medical Announces Departure of CFO and Appointment of Nabeel Ahmed as Interim CFO  Business Wire
  
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• Q&A: RIDOH medical director on rare tick-borne illness, COVID vaccination rates - WPRI.com

  01-07-2021 22:55
  Q&A: RIDOH medical director on rare tick-borne illness, COVID vaccination rates  WPRI.com
  
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• Biz Markie alive, ‘undergoing medical care,’ manager says - Chicago Sun-Times

  01-07-2021 22:47
  
  Biz Markie alive, ‘undergoing medical care,’ manager says  Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Oops: Hundreds of One Medical patients' emails exposed - MedCity News

  01-07-2021 22:25
  
  Oops: Hundreds of One Medical patients' emails exposed  MedCity News
  
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• Q&A: Are We Doing Enough to Prevent Suicides in Healthcare Workers?

  01-07-2021 21:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Tyler Black, MD, has been treating kids in crisis as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in emergency department and short-stay inpatient care for the past 12 years and has been researching suicide for about 15 years. He's a...
  
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• House Lawmakers Eager to Boost Vaccine Uptake, Quash Hesitancy

  01-07-2021 21:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Implementing so-called "regret lotteries," launching school vaccination clinics, and targeting "microherds" were among the strategies proposed by expert witnesses to address vaccine hesitancy, during a hearing of the House Select...
  
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• House Members Argue for Puerto Rico Coal Plant Shutdown

  01-07-2021 20:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON--A coal-powered electricity plant in Puerto Rico that is releasing toxic coal ash should be shut down immediately because it is harming patients' health, several House members said.
  "Whether through production...
  
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• South Dakota tribe begins medical marijuana sales as law goes into effect. Here's how it went - Argus Leader

  01-07-2021 20:05
  South Dakota tribe begins medical marijuana sales as law goes into effect. Here's how it went  Argus Leader
  
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• 'Clinically Meaningful' Survival Gain in Neuroendocrine Tumors

  01-07-2021 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Dramatic improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) for progressive midgut neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) failed to translate into significantly better overall survival (OS), according to a randomized trial.
  Patients treated...
  
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• Care for Stroke Patients Did Not Falter During the Pandemic

  01-07-2021 19:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Acute stroke care in the U.S. was subject to few disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to registry data.
  Among hospitals participating in the Get With The Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke registry, patients who experienced...
  
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• Law on Surprise Medical Bills Advances - JEMS.com

  01-07-2021 19:29
  
  Law on Surprise Medical Bills Advances  JEMS.com
  
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• Stanford Medical Center Development takes over fundraising for Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare - Stanford Medical Center Report

  01-07-2021 19:13
  
  Stanford Medical Center Development takes over fundraising for Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare  Stanford Medical Center Report
  
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• Fewer Relapses in Active Secondary Progressive MS With High-Efficacy Therapies

  01-07-2021 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- High-efficacy therapies were superior in reducing relapses in people with active secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) but not in people with inactive disease, an observational study showed.
  In people with active SPMS...
  
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• Bill to overhaul medical marijuana rule-making becomes law - Press Herald

  01-07-2021 18:49
  
  Bill to overhaul medical marijuana rule-making becomes law  Press Herald
  
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• Medical Buildings Sell in Campbell and Poland - businessjournaldaily.com

  01-07-2021 18:47
  
  Medical Buildings Sell in Campbell and Poland  businessjournaldaily.com
  
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• Cases of Rare Liver Complication Seen With Severe COVID-19

  01-07-2021 18:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Early in the pandemic, four critically ill COVID-19 patients developed a complication similar to secondary sclerosing cholangitis, an inflammatory liver disease, researchers reported.
  The case series involved four men, ages...
  
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• Wolf Enacts Laws Allowing For Three Month Supply Of Medical Marijuana - 90.5 WESA

  01-07-2021 18:05
  
  Wolf Enacts Laws Allowing For Three Month Supply Of Medical Marijuana  90.5 WESA
  
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• Do We Really Need a Fourth Year of Med School?

  01-07-2021 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- As a newly minted physician, I recently decided to reflect on my past year of medical school training, and consider some of the challenges and problematic trends in healthcare that I've already encountered--from increasing...
  
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• MSF begins activities on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, providing medical and psychological care to shipwreck survivors - Italy - ReliefWeb

  01-07-2021 17:57
  
  MSF begins activities on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, providing medical and psychological care to shipwreck survivors - Italy  ReliefWeb
  
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• Schools That Mask See Little COVID Spread

  01-07-2021 17:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- An analysis of North Carolina's experiment in reopening public schools to in-person instruction this spring showed the success of masking, with less apparent impact of physical distancing and other measures, researchers said...
  
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• Cancer and the Heart; COVID and Dx Delays; Not the Same Old Accelerated Approval?

  01-07-2021 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The European Society of Cardiology has launched a clinical trial to evaluate cardiac MRI during chemotherapy to prevent treatment-related heart failure in patients with cancer.
  A large retrospective study showed that patients...
  
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• CDC Study: Income-Related Inequalities Widening in Diabetes

  01-07-2021 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Diabetes was more prevalent among lower-income populations from 2001-2018, particularly for females and people ages 45-64, according to a CDC study.
  Assessing income-related inequalities using the Concentration Index indicated...
  
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• Governor DeWine Signs State Budget That Includes Anti-LGBTQ Medical Refusal Language - Human Rights Campaign

  01-07-2021 15:59
  
  Governor DeWine Signs State Budget That Includes Anti-LGBTQ Medical Refusal Language  Human Rights Campaign
  
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• Adjuvant Checkpoint Inhibition in Urothelial Cancer

  01-07-2021 15:36 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Several studies at the 2021 virtual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting were focused on the increased use of immune checkpoint inhibitors across various settings in urothelial bladder cancer.
  In this...
  
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• An email sent by One Medical exposed hundreds of customers’ email addresses - TechCrunch

  01-07-2021 15:17
  
  An email sent by One Medical exposed hundreds of customers’ email addresses  TechCrunch
  
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• Zuranolone Eases Core Symptoms of Postpartum Depression

  01-07-2021 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Zuranolone proved safe and effective in reducing symptoms of postpartum depression in a phase III clinical trial.
  Patients who took zuranolone, an investigational treatment for depressive disorders, had significant improvements...
  
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• Column: How the University of California outfoxed Catholic hospitals on religious medical restrictions - Yahoo Finance

  01-07-2021 15:00
  
  Column: How the University of California outfoxed Catholic hospitals on religious medical restrictions  Yahoo Finance
  
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• A medical moonshot would help fix inequality in American health care - The Conversation US

  01-07-2021 14:15
  
  A medical moonshot would help fix inequality in American health care  The Conversation US
  
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• How to reflect pandemic experiences on medical school applications - American Medical Association

  01-07-2021 14:05
  
  How to reflect pandemic experiences on medical school applications  American Medical Association
  
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• Transgender Patients Deserve Better Medical Care - Scientific American

  01-07-2021 14:00
  
  Transgender Patients Deserve Better Medical Care  Scientific American
  
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• Sickle Cell Comorbidities Increase Risk for Worse COVID Outcomes

  01-07-2021 14:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) who have a history of disease-related comorbidities were found to be at greater risk for worse COVID-19 outcomes, researchers reported.
  Hospitalization for COVID-19 was more likely to...
  
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• Nursing Committee Outlines Roadmap to Health Equity

  01-07-2021 13:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Members of the Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 called on nurses to lead the charge on health equity during a webinar hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Tuesday.
  Committee...
  
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• 'Two Americas'; U.K. Opts for Boosters; Pooch's COVID

  01-07-2021 11:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
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  NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, said he's very concerned about the "two Americas" developing--one of highly vaccinated areas where COVID case counts remain...
  
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• FDA OKs Key Component of Acute Leukemia Regimen

  01-07-2021 11:18 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON--The FDA approved a recombinant form of a key component of a chemotherapy regimen for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common childhood cancer.
  The approval of recombinant asparaginase erwinia chrysanthemi...
  
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• Gerald Levey, who led building of UCLA medical center, dies - Los Angeles Times

  01-07-2021 02:00
  
  Gerald Levey, who led building of UCLA medical center, dies  Los Angeles Times
  
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• South Dakota Highway Patrol releases framework for medical marijuana, Gov. Noem gives her support - KELOLAND.com

  01-07-2021 01:59
  South Dakota Highway Patrol releases framework for medical marijuana, Gov. Noem gives her support  KELOLAND.com
  
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• Alabama’s new commission on medical marijuana taking shape - AL.com

  01-07-2021 01:38
  
  Alabama’s new commission on medical marijuana taking shape  AL.com
  
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• ‘There’s a lot of gray area’: How will authorities enforce medical marijuana in South Dakota? - KELOLAND.com

  01-07-2021 01:06
  ‘There’s a lot of gray area’: How will authorities enforce medical marijuana in South Dakota?  KELOLAND.com
  
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• UArizona makes history with medical school transition program out of high school - KGUN

  01-07-2021 01:04
  
  UArizona makes history with medical school transition program out of high school  KGUN
  
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• Noem: Tribal-issued medical marijuana cards won't protect everyone from arrest - Argus Leader

  01-07-2021 00:50
  Noem: Tribal-issued medical marijuana cards won't protect everyone from arrest  Argus Leader
  
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• Greenlight St. Louis distributes meals, shares how to access free medical marijuana cards - KTVI Fox 2 St. Louis

  01-07-2021 00:27
  Greenlight St. Louis distributes meals, shares how to access free medical marijuana cards  KTVI Fox 2 St. Louis
  
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• Preliminary list of conditions for medical cannabis from South Dakota Department of Health - KELOLAND.com

  01-07-2021 00:23
  Preliminary list of conditions for medical cannabis from South Dakota Department of Health  KELOLAND.com
  
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