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(MedPage Today) -- Years ago, a practice operations leader told me that every patient encounter -- no matter how urgent -- was an opportunity to capture a quality metric. She referred to this as "in-reach," complimenting outreach to patients...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- LONDON -- Baricitinib (Olumiant) failed to show noninferiority to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk in FDA-required postmarketing studies, a researcher reported here. In two large...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Names matter. They shape expectations, guide behavior, and in medicine, determine how systems are built, how resources are allocated, and how clinicians practice. The name "emergency medicine" is one of the most consequential...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- An Albanian man's pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The Ebola outbreak in Congo could rival the largest on record, according to CDC models of possible trajectories over the next 3 months. In scenarios that had 70% of Ebola patients entering isolation and 50 Ebola deaths as of...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Cold knife conization (CKC) was tied to a lower risk of recurrence of cervical lesions and higher human papillomavirus (HPV) clearance compared with the loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) among women with cervical...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), who recently lost his primary bid for reelection, is speaking up a little louder about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s wariness of vaccines. "A terrible outcome from RFK and others promoting...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Finerenone (Kerendia) slowed the decline of kidney function in adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who did not have diabetes, the large randomized FIND-CKD trial showed. By month 32, the mean annual rate of change in estimated...
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Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- LONDON -- Overall survival is significantly shortened for cancer patients receiving more than 20 mg of prednisone (or the equivalent) at any point to treat arthritic side effects from immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), a...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from its custody, in a change that could obscure the full human cost of the Trump administration's mass detention...
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