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FDA OKs Pfizer COVID booster for 65 and over, those at high risk
September 23, 2021
Emerging evidence shows that booster doses of the Pfizer vaccine cause front-line immune defenders — called binding antibodies — to roughly triple soon after a person gets the third shot.
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Should hospitalists use albumin to treat non-SBP infections in patients with cirrhosis?
September 22, 2021
Study data suggest that albumin may be beneficial in improving renal and circulatory function.
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Decline in child COVID may signal end of latest surge
September 21, 2021
United States saw fewer cases and fewer admissions among children, but also fewer vaccinations.
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Nurses ‘at the breaking point,’ consider quitting due to COVID issues: Survey
September 21, 2021
“Hospitals can have all the beds and all the rooms and all the equipment they want, but without nurses and others at the front lines to provide that essential care, none of it really matters.”
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Opinion
Embedding diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in hospital medicine
September 21, 2021
Hospitalists have significant work ahead to ensure that we develop and maintain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce.
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Refined heart rate cutoffs may improve prognostic value of acute PE scoring systems
September 21, 2021
In an observational registry-based study, dropping the 110-bpm heart rate threshold improved sensitivity for low-risk PE, while increasing it improved specificity for intermediate-high–risk PE.
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COVID-19 claims more than 675,000 U.S. lives, surpassing the 1918 flu
September 21, 2021
In some ways, the United States has failed to learn from the mistakes of the past.
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EMPEROR-Preserved: Empagliflozin’s HFpEF efficacy catalyzes a heart failure redefinition
September 20, 2021
Cardiologists have long defined heart failure as involving reduced or preserved ejection fraction. Results from big empagliflozin trials say forget that.
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Navigating parenthood as pediatricians
September 20, 2021
There are numerous challenges for hospitalists who are parents because of poor parental leave policies in the United States.
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Moderna vaccine more effective than Pfizer and J&J
September 20, 2021
“Understanding differences in [vaccine effectiveness] by vaccine product can guide individual choices and policy recommendations regarding vaccine boosters.”
