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Hospital medicine leaders offer tips for gender equity
June 2, 2021
Flexible work opportunities can help boost female physicians’ careers.
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Hospitalists play key role in advance care planning
June 2, 2021
It’s important to distinguish advance care planning from advance directives.
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Avoiding excess oxygen in mechanically ventilated patients ‘seems sensible’
June 2, 2021
Future trials “will have to address how a particular [oxygenation] target is both set and achieved in each group of patients, particularly those with specific organ injuries.”
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Single subcutaneous shot offers fast, potent platelet inhibition in STEMI
June 1, 2021
The effect was seen within 15 minutes of receiving RUC-4, an investigational glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor, with no thrombocytopenia, in a phase 2a study.
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Hospitalists innovate in ICU management
June 1, 2021
Hospitalists helped develop and staff critical care programs to optimize patient care during the pandemic.
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Microbiome therapeutic offers durable protection against C. difficile recurrence
May 28, 2021
“The hope would be that one or more ... would probably replace the vast majority of FMT [procedures] that we do clinically,”said Dr. Sahil Khanna.
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Pandemic experience taught lessons about clinician wellness
May 27, 2021
“I didn’t know how to help people because the problem was so big, especially during the height of the pandemic,” Dr. Sarah Richards said.
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Making sense of LAMA discharges
May 26, 2021
There is no evidence that insurance companies will not pay for LAMA discharges.
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GALACTIC-HF: Novel drug most effective in sickest HFrEF patients
May 24, 2021
In GALACTIC-HF trial, the greatest relative benefit of omecamtiv mecarbil was in the sickest HFrEF patients.
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Sotagliflozin’s HFpEF benefit confirmed by new analyses
May 24, 2021
A meta-analysis of two pivotal trials for the SGLT1/2 inhibitor sotagliflozin prospectively documents a HFpEF benefit.