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This is how you get patients back for follow-up cancer testing
“What concerns me is that despite the various interventions implemented to encourage and support patients to return for follow-up testing, over 60...
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CPAP adherence curbs severe cardiovascular disease outcomes
Meta-analysis supports the need for better strategies to improve CPAP adherence in high-risk populations.
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Severity score predicts mortality in pulmonary tuberculosis
A novel three-pronged assessment tool showed promise to inform treatment and improve outcomes.
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Pulmonary aspergillosis predicts poor outcomes in critically ill flu patients
Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis was associated with increased mortality, more complications, longer ICU stays, and more organ...
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People with long COVID have specific blood biomarkers, study says
The findings may be a step toward creating blood tests to positively identify people with long COVID so specialized treatments can be employed.
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Study: Antiviral med linked to COVID mutations that can spread
“There aren’t any widely circulating variants that have the signature. At the moment there’s nothing that’s transmitted very widely that’s due to...
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Paxlovid weaker against current COVID-19 variants
But when looking at death alone, the antiviral was still highly effective.
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Three antibiotic regimens show similar effectiveness for CAP
Treatment with a beta-lactam alone was associated with a longer time to hospital discharge and small increase in risk for in-hospital mortality....
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Fish oil labels make health claims, despite lack of data
“What was surprising, though, was just how broad the types of claims being made were – from heart and brain health to joint health, eye health,...
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Growing public perception that cannabis is safer than tobacco
There was a significant shift over time toward an increasingly favorable perception of cannabis; more respondents reported cannabis was “somewhat...