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Creating a student-staffed family call line to alleviate clinical burden
Medical students received a crash course in empathetically communicating over the phone.
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COVID-19 symptoms can linger for months
“Persistent symptoms are much worse for COVID patients than flu patients,” said Dr. Zijian Chen.
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Intubation boxes may do more harm than good in COVID-19 risk
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for protective barrier enclosures to prevent healthcare provide] exposure...
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Wave, surge, or tsunami
Predictive models for COVID-19 have strengths and weaknesses and none are perfect.
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Hep C sofosbuvir/daclatasvir combo promising for COVID-19
“We need to remember that conducting research amidst a pandemic with overwhelmed hospitals is a clear challenge, and we cannot be sure of success...
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Medical societies advise on vitamin D in midst of COVID-19
Preliminary results show for the first time that vitamin D intake may be tied to decreased risk for immunotherapy-induced colitis in patients with...
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Hyperglycemia predicts COVID-19 death even without diabetes
This finding came from a retrospective analysis of 605 patients with COVID-19 seen at two hospitals in Wuhan, China.
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Children rarely transmit SARS-CoV-2 within households
Most children with COVID-19 disease are infected inside family groups, but are not the initial transmitters.
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Delayed diagnoses seen in children during COVID-19
"Pediatricians on the frontline know what to expect with diabetes. Those children who would have come in late prior to the pandemic are now...
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Risky business: Longer-course prophylactic perioperative antimicrobials
Is administration of prophylactic antimicrobials beyond 24 hours associated with a difference in the postoperative outcomes of surgical site...