In 2021, in the United States alone, there have been more than 560,000 prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention, post-exposure and treatment of COVID-19. Since the onset in February 2020, the U.S. has been the ...
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Primary care clinicians face a heavy administrative burden, spending significantly more time using the electronic health record (EHR) than their counterparts in other specialties. With studies demonstrating high rates of ...
Jul 9, 2021
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One in three patients who dies in a hospital has sepsis, a severe inflammatory response to an infection, marked by organ dysfunction, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This heavy toll makes predicting ...
Jun 21, 2021
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Pneumocystis jirovecii is a fungal infection that causes pneumonia, often in highly immunocompromised patients, such as those recently undergoing transplants. Before 2019, Marwan Azar, MD, FAST, and his colleagues in Internal ...
Jun 17, 2021
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Some leaders in health care have called for an end to annual health check visits, saying they're a waste of time for patients and overworked primary care physicians and don't reduce the risk of death.
Jun 8, 2021
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Seniors in states that invested in their health systems enjoy a higher quality of overall care, a new 50-state ranking shows.
Jun 7, 2021
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The acute shortage of hematologists in Sub-Saharan Africa has given rise to an urgent need for training to help address increasing cases of blood disorders, scientists say.
Jun 4, 2021
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(HealthDay)—The number of applicants and number of applications submitted per applicant to internal medicine (IM) residency and most subspecialty fellowships for 2021 were higher than in previous application cycles, according ...
May 10, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Hand hygiene compliance rates exceeded 90 percent during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, but declined thereafter, according to a research letter published online April 26 in JAMA internal Medicine.
Apr 29, 2021
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One in five pharmacies refuse to dispense a key medication to treat addiction, according to new research.
Apr 27, 2021
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