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Performance status, molecular testing key to metastatic cancer prognosis
August 20, 2020
“The applicability of clinical trials data to hospitalized patients is generally poor. That’s an important caveat to keep in mind.”
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Consensus document reviews determination of brain death
August 12, 2020
The recommendations are the minimum criteria for the determination of brain death or death by neurologic criteria.
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Value of palliative care shines clearly in a crisis
August 5, 2020
Hospitalists have played key roles in clarifying and redefining the new role for palliative care during the pandemic.
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Early palliative care fails to improve QOL in advanced heart failure
August 3, 2020
“My first reaction is disappointment. We had hoped to see the ENABLE program, which had been successful in cancer, translate to the heart failure setting.”
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Higher death rate seen in cancer patients with nosocomial COVID-19
July 30, 2020
All-cause mortality was higher in cancer patients with hospital-acquired COVID-19 than in those with community-acquired COVID-19.
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Psychiatry trainees drive COVID-19 palliative care in New York
July 21, 2020
The team managed 16 cases a day during the peak of New York's COVID-19 outbreak, operating on a rotating schedule of one to three shifts weekly.
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Oxford coronavirus vaccine ‘triggers immune response’
July 21, 2020
The candidate vaccine provoked an antibody response within 28 days.
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Used together, troponin and coronary calcium improve CV risk assessment
July 20, 2020
Cardiovascular disease risk is more accurately assessed when troponin and coronary calcium are both assessed.
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Medical societies advise on vitamin D in midst of COVID-19
July 13, 2020
Preliminary results show for the first time that vitamin D intake may be tied to decreased risk for immunotherapy-induced colitis in patients with melanoma.
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Use of nonopioid pain meds is on the rise
July 7, 2020
Prescription opioid use declined from 2009 to 2018, but not significantly.
