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DOACs cut mortality


 

Results from the GARFIELD-AF study show that patients who are newly diagnosed with atrial fibrillation using a direct action anticoagulant led to benefits that tracked previously seen in randomized trials. Also today, the obesity paradox extends to PE patients, adjuvant flu vaccine reduces hospitalization in the oldest patients, and Tdap vaccination early in the third trimester of pregnancy raises antibodies in newborns.

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