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Sickle cell disease, trait may up risk for poor COVID outcomes
July 21, 2021
Even those who carry just one copy of the sickle cell gene – the carrier status for sickle cell disease – appeared to be at heightened risk.
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Statins again linked to lower COVID-19 mortality
July 21, 2021
Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 who had been taking statins had a substantially lower risk of death and severe outcomes than those who weren’t in a large observational study.
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‘Dealing with a different beast’: Why Delta has doctors worried
July 21, 2021
“We are either going to get vaccinated and end the pandemic, or we’re going to accept death and a lot of it.”
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Empirical anti-MRSA therapy does not improve mortality in patients with pneumonia
July 21, 2021
Does empirical anti–methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) therapy affect 30-day mortality in patients hospitalized with pneumonia, when compared with standard antibiotic regimens?
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Children and COVID: New vaccinations increase as cases continue to climb
July 20, 2021
Vaccine initiations among children aged 12-15 years had declined in 6 of the previous 7 weeks.
News
HIV increases risk for severe COVID-19
July 20, 2021
“We don’t have any information from this about the T-cell counts [or] the rates of viral suppression, which I think is tremendously important,” one physician said about the data.
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Pharmacologic and electrical cardioversion of acute Afib reduces hospital admissions
July 20, 2021
Is pharmacologic cardioversion and/or electrical cardioversion an appropriate initial management strategy for acute atrial fibrillation?
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Long COVID seen in patients with severe and mild disease
July 20, 2021
A Swiss study shows how even mild COVID cases can lead to debilitating symptoms, according to Dr. Christopher Terndrup.
Opinion
The febrile infant: New AAP guidance for the first 2 months of life
July 19, 2021
The recommendations were derived from interpretations of sequential studies in young, febrile, but well-appearing infants.
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Treatment of opioid use disorder with buprenorphine and methadone effective but underutilized
July 19, 2021
In clinical practice, what is the effectiveness of different treatment pathways for opioid use disorder?
