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CDC panel: Pause of J&J COVID-19 vaccine to remain for now
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- Marcia Frellick
“Putting this vaccine on pause for those of us that are frontline health care workers has really been devastating.”
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Endocrinologist charged after bomb-making supplies found
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- Marcia Frellick
Florida physician was also charged with narcotics trafficking and possession of controlled substances. He has been placed on leave from his Naples...
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Black inpatients at higher risk for poor safety outcomes
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- Marcia Frellick
The gaps were widest surrounding surgical care.
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Vaccine mismatch: What to do after dose 1 when plans change
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- Marcia Frellick
Researchers are exploring whether it is safe and effective to get the first and second doses from different...
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COVID vaccines could lose their punch within a year, experts say
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- Marcia Frellick
Almost a third said ineffectiveness would happen in 9 months or less; 18.2% said 6 months or less.
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2021 match sets records: Who matched and who didn’t?
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- Marcia Frellick
Of the 38,106 total positions offered, 36,179 were filled, representing a 2.6% increase over 2020.
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First pill for COVID-19 could be ready by year’s end
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- Marcia Frellick
The new pill significantly reduced infectious virus in symptomatic patients who had tested positive for COVID-19...
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Variants spur new FDA guidance on COVID vaccines, tests, drugs
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- Marcia Frellick
The FDA has already been communicating with individual manufacturers as they assess the variants’ effect on their products.
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COVID cuts internists’ happiness in life outside work
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- Marcia Frellick
Before the pandemic, a large majority of internists reported that they were generally happy with life outside of work, although by specialty, they...
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One in 10 family docs with burnout consider quitting medicine
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- Marcia Frellick
Family physicians cope with burnout in a variety of ways.
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CDC chief lays out attack plan for COVID variants
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- Marcia Frellick
Public health leaders are ramping up genome sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and ensuring that sampling is geographically representative.
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U.K. COVID-19 variant doubling every 10 days in the U.S.: Study
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- Marcia Frellick
The transmission rate in the United States of the variant, labeled B.1.1.7, is 30%-40% higher than that of more...
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Children in ICU for COVID-19 likely to be older, Black, and asthmatic
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- Marcia Frellick
For both the ICU patients and the non-ICU group, the most common presenting symptom was fever.
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COVID-19 cases dropping in U.S., but variants threaten progress
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- Marcia Frellick
"The continued proliferation of variants, variants that likely have increased transmissibility, that spread more easily, threatens to reverse...
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Views on ethical issues shifting in family, internal medicine
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- Marcia Frellick
Changes in positions related to certain issues, such as whether upcoding is acceptable, were made by physicians in a variety of specialties.