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New York’s largest health care provider fires 1,400 unvaccinated employees
October 6, 2021
A few thousand Northwell employees got vaccinated as the deadline approached.
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Is AFib a stroke cause or innocent bystander? The debate continues
October 5, 2021
Many believe AFib is a risk marker for stroke, but new evidence suggests it may be a causal risk factor.
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Children and COVID: Decline of summer surge continues
October 5, 2021
Cumulative case count nears another milestone; new vaccinations drop again.
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Vaccine holdouts embrace COVID antibody treatment, mystifying doctors
October 5, 2021
“I think it’s irrational, quite frankly, if you have to boil it down to one word.”
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Post-op remote monitoring may help catch drug errors, ease pain
October 5, 2021
"Virtual care with RAM technologies that measured heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, oxygen saturation, and body weight allowed for a large absolute difference in identifying the drug errors."
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Pfizer COVID vaccine antibodies may disappear in 7 months, study says
October 4, 2021
“Our study shows vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine induces high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the original vaccine strain, but these levels drop by nearly 10-fold by 7 months.”
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Opinion
Tolerance in medicine
October 4, 2021
Education is part of our job as health care professionals but judgment is not.
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Opioid prescribing mapped: Alabama highest, New York lowest
October 4, 2021
The Medicare Part D opioid prescribing rate dropped in all 50 states from 2014 to 2019, but disparities remain.
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EU finds J&J COVID shot possibly linked to another rare clotting condition
October 4, 2021
EMA said the new, possibly life-threatening VTE condition to be included on the J&J product label was separate from TTS.
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Antibody cocktail reduces chance of developing COVID
October 4, 2021
“This is the first long-acting combination of monoclonal antibodies that represents a potential new option to augment COVID-19 prevention.”
