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Tofacitinib shows mortality benefit in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia
June 23, 2021
The Janus kinase inhibitor tofacitinib reduces the risk of both death and respiratory failure in hospitalized adults with COVID-19 pneumonia.
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Sotagliflozin use in T2D patients linked with posthospitalization benefits in analysis
June 23, 2021
The paper’s outcome measure may be a meaningful, patient-centered way of capturing disease burden, according to the authors.
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New data on COVID-19’s cognitive fallout
June 22, 2021
“Low levels of oxygen in the brain could lead to confusion, headache, and brain fog, and cause the cognitive disturbances that we see.”
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Fact or fiction? Intravascular contrast and acute kidney injury
June 22, 2021
The risks of contrast-associated AKI are overstated, implying the truer danger lies with inadequate imaging.
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Opinion
Reflections on 10 years of hospitalist productivity
June 21, 2021
Over the past decade there has been a significant change in how hospital medicine programs are financed.
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Safety-net burden linked with poorer inpatient cirrhosis outcomes
June 21, 2021
Even so, hospitalizations and mortality were still higher in Black patients than White patients after controlling for hospitals’ safety-net burden.
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Opinion
Preparing pediatric hospital medicine fellows for leadership
June 18, 2021
PHM fellows do not feel that they receive as much management training as they need to start their careers.
News
Prophylactic anticoagulation tied to lower death rate in COVID
June 18, 2021
Prophylactic use of low-dose anticoagulation to prevent venous thromboembolism was associated with reduced 60-day mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Michigan.
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U.S., international MIS-C studies yield disparate results
June 18, 2021
The two real-world observational studies were published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Opinion
Understanding the grieving process
June 17, 2021
Research has found that efforts to find meaning in loss facilitates the grieving process.
