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• Lockdown Led to Less Sex, Lower Use of HIV-Preventing Drugs: Survey

  15-07-2020 06:29 via medicinenet.com
  
  Title: Lockdown Led to Less Sex, Lower Use of HIV-Preventing Drugs: Survey
  Category: Health News
  Created: 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM
  Last Editorial Review: 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM
  
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• Many With Breast Cancer 'Systematically Left Behind,' Report Says

  16-04-2024 00:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Inequities in breast cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and supportive care worldwide are leaving many patients with breast cancer "systematically left behind and forgotten," according to a report from the Lancet Breast...
  
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• Multidisciplinary Team Intervention Flops for Improving CKD Outcomes

  15-04-2024 22:13 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- A multi-pronged electronic health record-based population health management intervention failed to move the needle for slowing chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression, a cluster randomized trial showed.
  Over a median follow...
  
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• High Lipoprotein(a) Levels' Hit on Heart Health Doesn't Discriminate

  15-04-2024 21:46 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- All sex, race, and risk category groups appeared to be affected by the heart disease risk posed by elevated lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), according to pooled analysis of primary prevention studies.
  Compared with people with below...
  
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• MedPAC Wrestles With Wide Variation in Generic Rx Prices, Availability

  15-04-2024 21:40 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Why does one particular anti-psychotic drug cost $1.06 at one point of sale, and $102 at another? Members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) looked for answers to that tricky question at their meeting in Washington...
  
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• Monica Bertagnolli: U.S. 'Ready' for Next Pandemic Threat

  15-04-2024 21:21 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- In part two of this exclusive video interview, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, talks with Monica Bertagnolli, MD, the 17th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about the day-to-day work at the...
  
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• Pediatric Eye Care 'Deserts' Pervasive in the U.S.

  15-04-2024 20:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The vast majority of U.S. counties are pediatric eye care "deserts," a cross-sectional study found.
  Of the more than 3,000 counties in the nation, just 9.7% had at least one pediatric ophthalmologist and 6.5% had at least one...
  
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• Bird Flu Is Spreading to More Farm Animals. Are Milk and Eggs Safe?

  15-04-2024 18:59 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- A bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows has grown to affect more than two dozen herds in eight states, just weeks after the nation's largest egg producer found the virus in its chickens.
  Health officials stress that the risk...
  
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• It's the First Drug Shown to Slow Alzheimer's. Why Is It Off to a Slow Start?

  15-04-2024 18:54 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The first drug shown to slow Alzheimer's disease hit the U.S. market over a year ago, but sales have lagged, major hospital systems have taken months to start using it, and some insurers have rejected coverage.
  Doctors also...
  
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• Don't Rule Out Breast Cancer Surgery for 90-Year-Olds

  15-04-2024 18:44 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO--Primary breast cancer surgery for nonagenarians in good physical shape was associated with improved survival compared with a non-surgical approach, retrospective data from a single center in Italy showed.
  Among...
  
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• What Kate Middleton Reminds Us About the Role of Privacy in Healing

  15-04-2024 18:25 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Maybe it's because my mother is from London, but I have always felt a certain type of kinship with the Royal Family. I remember getting up super early in the morning to watch the wedding of Kate--the Princess of Wales-...
  
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• After Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes, Mortality Risk Lingers for Decades

  15-04-2024 18:15 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Women who experienced major adverse pregnancy outcomes still had increased mortality risks decades later, a population-based cohort study of Swedish data found.
  Adverse pregnancy outcomes independently associated with increased...
  
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• Cryoablation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer a Safe Option in Older Women

  15-04-2024 17:31 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO--Cryoablation without excision for low-risk, early-stage breast cancer may be an option for women over 60, 5-year follow-up results from the ICE3 trial showed.
  At a mean follow-up of 54.2 months, the ipsilateral...
  
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• Cardiac Events Common in Older, Hospitalized RSV Patients

  15-04-2024 17:24 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- More than one in five older adults hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection experienced an acute cardiac event, an observational study found.
  Among 6,248 hospitalized patients 50 or older with laboratory...
  
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• Taking Care of Patients Beyond the Confines of the Traditional Office Visit

  15-04-2024 17:12 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Built into the heart of the patient-centered medical home is the idea of extending care beyond the limits imposed by an in-person office visit.
  I've written before about how 20 minutes just isn't enough, either for us or for...
  
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• Anesthesiologist Convicted; Oldest Conjoined Twins Die; 'Donald Trump Did This'

  15-04-2024 15:31 via medpagetoday.com
  
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  Dallas anesthesiologist Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr., MD, was convicted for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into IV bags, leading to a coworker's death...
  
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• Anesthesiologist Convicted of Tampering With IV Bags Linked to Death

  15-04-2024 14:54 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- A Dallas anesthesiologist was convicted Friday for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into bags of intravenous fluid at a surgical center where he worked, which led to the death of a coworker and caused cardiac...
  
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• 'A Pain in the Ass': What We Heard This Week

  14-04-2024 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- "It's still a pain in the ass."--Christie Ballantyne, MD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, discussing how despite some improvements in access to newer, highly effective cholesterol-lowering drugs, frustrations remain...
  
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• Reports of Unauthorized Obamacare Plan-Switching and Sign-Ups Trigger Concern

  14-04-2024 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Federal and state regulators aren't doing enough to stop the growing problem of rogue health insurance brokers making unauthorized policy switches for Affordable Care Act (ACA) policyholders, say consumers, agents, nonprofit...
  
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• Congress Can Take Action to Prevent Older Adult Falls and Associated Opioid Use

  14-04-2024 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- A common scenario we have all seen: an older person, after experiencing a fall, faces a long, hard, and frustrating road to recovery. But these individuals are not just statistics; they are our patients, parents, grandparents...
  
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• Federal Probes Need to Look Beyond Private Equity-Owned Healthcare for Alleged Abuse

  14-04-2024 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- At least three federal agencies have jointly announced a cross-government investigation into the growing role of private equity (PE) and other corporate firms in American healthcare.
  In this video, healthcare marketing consultant...
  
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• Why Are Nurses Leaving Healthcare?

  13-04-2024 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz
  
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• Growing Eye Mass Leads to a Rare Diagnosis

  13-04-2024 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Tropical parasitic disease is often asymptomatic, but beware of unexplained ocular symptoms
  
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• Delirium and Dementia; Are Biosimilars Cheaper for Patients?

  13-04-2024 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...
  
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• I'm an Autistic Doctor. Here's How to Improve Care for Autistic Patients.

  13-04-2024 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- In 1983, I signed up for a paper route at the age of 13. Every morning, I rose early, got on my bike, picked up the papers, and delivered them to my subscribers. After that, I headed off to school and my other activities. I was...
  
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• Medical Fibrin Adhesive Market Recent Developments and Industry Outlook 2024 to 2030 - WhaTech

  13-04-2024 00:52 via news.google.com
  Medical Fibrin Adhesive Market Recent Developments and Industry Outlook 2024 to 2030  WhaTech
  
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• Journey Into Virtual Reality Eases Cancer Pain

  12-04-2024 23:38 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Immersive virtual reality (VR) as distraction therapy provided relief for hospitalized cancer patients with moderate to severe pain, a single-center randomized trial showed.
  Among patients with pain related to their malignancy...
  
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• CMS Officials Pressed on Catheter Fraud Issue at Accountable Care Meeting

  12-04-2024 23:08 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials speaking on a panel at an annual gathering of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in Baltimore were prepared to discuss their efforts to increase participation...
  
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• FDA Chief Blasted for Infant Formula Crisis Response, COVID Vaccines

  12-04-2024 22:55 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Republican lawmakers tore into FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, over the agency's handling of everything from the infant formula shortage crisis to the authorization of COVID-19 vaccines during a hearing of the House Committee...
  
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• No Link Between GLP-1 Drugs and Suicide, Says European Regulator

  12-04-2024 22:41 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The European Medicines Agency (EMA) found no evidence to support a causal link between GLP-1 receptor agonists and suicidal thoughts, a committee said on Friday following a 9-month review.
  An investigation was launched in July...
  
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