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HPV testing plus cytology catches two times more cervical lesions
Research suggesets that hrHPV testing is the “best strategy for a timely diagnosis of CIN2+ lesions while avoiding overtreatment” of young women...
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Large analysis confirms safety of nipple-sparing mastectomy
The authors found that overall survival and breast cancer–specific survival were similar for women undergoing nipple-sparing mastectomy and those...
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Tiny worms sniff out early-stage pancreatic cancer
There is a huge need for research like this that explores strategies to detect pancreatic cancer early, but it’s far too soon to tell how, or if,...
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Alcohol ups risk for atrial fibrillation episode hours later
“The more alcohol consumed, the higher that risk.”
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Med student kicked out for microaggression dustup sues school
Mr. Bhattacharya claims the unraveling of his medical training was because of questions he asked at a UVA-hosted panel on microaggressions. The...
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ED docs are cleaning up the messes of medical tourism
“It’s unfairly shifting routine outpatient surgical followup (and liability) onto me and extra cost to [the patient].”
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Injectable monoclonal antibodies prevent COVID-19 in trial
The cocktail of casirivimab and imdevimab reduced the relative risk of infection by 72% in patients at high risk of infection.
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Midodrine reduces fainting in young patients
The absolute risk reduction for vasovagal syncope was 19 percentage points in a new study.
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Married docs remove girl’s lethal facial tumor in ‘excruciatingly difficult’ procedure
This patient was much like the cases they treat every day, only “several orders of magnitudes greater,” Dr. Waner said. “On a scale of 1 to 10 she...
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The pandemic is making periods unbearable for some women
The stress and loss of normalcy over the last year appear to have altered cycles and amplified the premenstrual syndrome symptoms many women...
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Doctors search for missing link between COVID-19 and ITP
“We don’t know much about platelet counts in COVID-19 at all.”
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Patient health suffers amid pandemic health care shortages
More than half of clinician respondents to a survey said they saw a decline in patient health because of delayed or inaccessible care.
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Primary care isn’t bouncing back
The latest survey responses confirm what researchers had suspected.