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ESC heart failure guideline to integrate bounty of new meds
July 29, 2021
It has a simple answer to a seemingly complex issue: how to merge the newly approved with mainstay drug therapies. And it conditionally okays meds in a group long without guideline-directed options.
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Unclear benefit to home NIPPV in COPD
July 29, 2021
Are better outcomes achieved with use of home NIPPV for patients with COPD and hypercapnia?
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Pfizer vaccine protection wanes after 6 months, study finds
July 29, 2021
Strong protection against serious illness and hospitalization remains.
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No prehydration prior to contrast-enhanced CT in patients with stage 3 CKD
July 28, 2021
What is the renal safety of omitting prehydration with sodium bicarbonate prior to iodine-based contrast media in patients with stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD)?
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CDC calls for masks in schools, hard-hit areas, even if vaccinated
July 28, 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) once again is recommending that some Americans wear masks indoors. The agency has called for masks in K-12 school settings and in areas of the United States experiencing high or substantial SA...
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The VA, California, and NYC requiring employee vaccinations
July 27, 2021
The trifecta of federal-state-municipal vaccinerequirements arrived as the nation searches for ways to get more people vaccinated to tamp down the Delta variant.
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Children and COVID: Vaccinations, new cases both rising
July 27, 2021
The increase in vaccine initiation was fairly modest for the week of July 16-22, but the latest jump in new cases was not.
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Accelerated surgery for hip fracture did not lower risk of mortality or major complications
July 27, 2021
In patients with hip fracture, does surgery within 6 hours of diagnosis improve outcomes versus standard care?
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Direct oral anticoagulants: Competition brought no cost relief
July 27, 2021
Medicare Part D spending since 2011 has far outpaced growth in the use of oral anticoagulants.
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C. Diff eradication not necessary for clinical cure of recurrent infections with fecal transplant
July 27, 2021
“I think the advice should be: Give a full anti–C. diff antibiotic course to treat the C. diff infection, and then give FMT afterward to restore the microbiota.”
