What We're Reading: Stress Aged Teenage Brains; WA Flu Deaths; Physicians File Brief in ACA Case
December 2nd 2022Teenage brains prematurely aged by 3 years during pandemic lockdowns; Washington state health officials report high flu activity and 7 deaths; medical groups ask a Texas judge to refrain from issuing a nationwide injunction against the preventive health screenings covered by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Post Hoc Analysis of IMPACT Trial Finds Triplet Regimen Effective in COPD
December 2nd 2022The findings suggest that treatment with fluticasone furoate (FF)/umeclidinium (UMEC)/vilanterol (VI) led to improvements and had a similar safety profile to both FF/VI and UMEC/VI regardless of patient chronic mucus hypersecretion status at baseline.
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Genealogical Study of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency Suggests Strong Genetic Component
December 2nd 2022The population-level, mutigenerational study found that both near and distant relatives of women with primary ovarian insufficiency were at a higher risk of the condition compared with matched controls.
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Use of PRO Measures Lacking in Acne Vulgaris and Rosacea Clinical Trials, Study Finds
December 2nd 2022Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures were included in approximately one-half of acne vulgaris and rosacea randomized controlled trials, despite their utility in capturing the patient perspective.
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Stopping Methotrexate for 1 Week After Flu Vaccine May Work as Well as 2 Weeks
December 1st 2022Methotrexate dampens the immune response to vaccines, and a recent study showed that discontinuing treatment for 1 week instead of 2 worked just as well for patients with rheumatoid arthritis getting a flu shot.
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Dr Samyukta Mullangi: COVID-19 Has Spurred Us to Ask How We Can Innovate Care Delivery
December 1st 2022During an Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event held in New York City, Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA, fellow in medical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discussed how disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic are ushering in health care delivery reform.
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FDA Approves First Fecal Transplant Therapy for Prevention of CDI Recurrence
December 1st 2022Ferring’s Rebyota, a novel first-in-class microbiota-based live biotherapeutic, has been approved by the FDA for the prevention of recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in individuals 18 years and older, following antibiotic treatment for recurrent CDI.
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Gene Variants That Protect Against Alzheimer Disease Could Increase Risk of AMD
December 1st 2022The risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) could be linked to structural variations in the APOE gene that were previously found to be associated with protection against Alzheimer disease.
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The Biden administration plans to end the national emergency that was called for the monkeypox virus outbreak as cases appear to be under control; bisexual and gay men will more easily be able to donate blood under new guidelines set to be released by the FDA; the FDA has paused the emergency use authorization for the monoclonal antibody treatment bebtelovimab.
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Contributor: On World AIDS Day—Lessons Drawn From HIV, Monkeypox, and COVID-19
December 1st 2022Dr Halkitis is currently working on his new book "People, Politics, & Public Health: How the American People Created the HIV, COVID-19, and Other Modern-Day Pandemics," to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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BMI Implicated in Glucocorticoid Insensitivity in CRSwNP
November 30th 2022The investigators of this study compared outcomes between patients who had eosinophilic or noneosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) by comparing the influence of body mass index (BMI) on each disease subtype.
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As of November 23, Twitter is no longer enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy; CDC awards more than $3 billion to strengthen the public health infrastructure and workforce; lecanemab appears to slow the spread of Alzheimer disease but is linked to multiple adverse events, symptoms, and deaths.
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HDHPs Deter Women From Additional Testing After Abnormal Mammogram, Study Says
November 29th 2022The groups who told researchers they would be more likely to skip additional testing had lower levels of income or education and were more likely to be on Medicaid or be uninsured, among other factors.
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Lack of Knowledge Continues to Influence Delayed Melanoma Diagnosis
November 29th 2022Malignant cutaneous melanoma outcomes were investigated as they relate to diagnosis delay and potential influence from socioeconomic and demographic factors in Brazil, where skin cancer diagnoses represent 30% of all cancer diagnoses.
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US flu hospitalizations increased nearly 30% in the week before Thanksgiving; HHS proposed a rule to align 42 CFR Part 2 privacy protections with existing law to protect patients with substance abuse disorder; New York State saw a decline in opioid prescriptions during the first month of COVID-19 lockdowns.
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