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Nasal Spray Diuretic Shows Potential for Heart Failure in Trial of Healthy Adults

Intranasal bumetanide demonstrated safety, bioequivalence with its oral and IV counterparts

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CDC Advisors Defend Infection Control Draft Guidance

HICPAC supports surgical masks for airborne pathogens, sick workers returning after 3 days

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Electronic Nudges Improved Flu Shot Uptake in Patients With Acute MI History

A cardiovascular-focused letter led to larger improvements in vaccine uptake in Danish program

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Left Atrial Appendage Closure Reduced Bleeding After Afib Ablation

Procedure also noninferior to anticoagulation for death, stroke, or systemic embolism composite

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Spironolactone Misses the Mark in Acute MI Without HF

Drug discontinuations may have leveled any benefit in CLEAR OASIS 9 trial

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Novel CRISPR-Cas9-Based Promising in ATTR Cardiomyopathy

One-time treatment with nexiguran ziclumeran tied to decline in serum TTR levels in phase I trial

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Tirzepatide Officially Puts GLP-1 Meds on the Map for Heart Failure Benefit

SUMMIT trial able to show clinical benefit beyond quality-of-life improvement

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Are There Some Words That Doctors Should Never Use?

Alternative phrasing can open dialogue and built trust with seriously ill patients, experts say

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Stroke Risk Is Changing With the Climate

Patient education is essential

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RSV Severity, Deaths on Par With Flu and COVID

Pre-vaccine era data suggest underrecognized burden of disease, especially in older adults

This colorized electron microscope image of H5N1 virus particles grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney epithelial cells

Canadian Teen in Critical Condition With What Is Believed to Be Bird Flu

Teen is not known to have any contact with infected animals

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Which High-Risk Patients Should Get the RSV Vaccine?

While all adults age 75 and up are eligible, here's who's considered high risk in the 60-74 group

What Having Ebola Is Really Like

Craig Spencer, MD, talks about the symptoms and his treatment at Bellevue Hospital

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Inching Toward a Blood Test for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Researchers try to address challenge of distinguishing HCM from other cardiomyopathies

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Should I Get a Handheld Ultrasound?

Their speed and simplicity are especially valuable when timely decisions are critical

Who Needs a Defibrillator After MI? FDA Recs on Inferior Vena Cava Filters

Also in TTHealthWatch: early sugar exposure, hypertension, and diabetes

An Emergency Doc's Experience Contracting Ebola

Craig Spencer reflects on his 2014 Ebola diagnosis after volunteering for Doctors Without Borders

A photo of a male physician holding a video laryngoscope over a patient.

Field Notes: One of the Toughest Airways of My Career

Technique matters. Thinking matters more.

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RFK Jr. Threatens the Very Fabric of Healthcare

A vote to give Kennedy power is a vote against public health

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A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas ERs

This marks one of at least two women who died under the state abortion ban

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What's Our Capacity for Measuring Hospital Capacity?

With respiratory virus season coming, resumed reporting is critical

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Tricuspid Valve Replacement Finds Surer Footing With TRISCEND II's 1-Year Report

Evoque device helped outcomes in severe tricuspid regurgitation, with some safety caveats

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Colchicine Goes Belly-Up in a More Definitive Heart Attack Trial

Larger CLEAR OASIS 9 trial could not replicate past results

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We Can Better Protect Kids From Head Injury in Football

Making youth football safer requires a collective effort

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Heart Attack Patients Who Receive Heparin ASAP Are Better Primed for Cath Lab

Administration at first medical contact at PCI hospital tied to more spontaneous reperfusion

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Stent-Like Hybrid on Track for Lofty Long-Term Goals in PCI

Stent-related events plateaued 6 months after DynamX implant

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No Kidney Benefit With Finerenone in Heart Failure Patients

Anti-mineralocorticoid agent reduced albuminuria, but not eGFR-based kidney outcome

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Stroke Survivors With Afib Could Start DOACs Earlier

Safety shown with no difference in recurrent strokes

A Moral Code: Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine

Three physicians face crossroads in patient care

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A Case of Broca's Aphasia

An excerpt from Theodore H. Schwartz's book, Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery

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ACIP Backs Extra COVID Vax Dose for Seniors, Pneumococcal Vax for Adults 50 and Up

CDC advisors also formalize recommendations on extra COVID vaccine doses in the immunocompromised

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RSV Vaccine Tied to Fewer Hospitalizations, ED Visits in Older, High-Risk Adults

However, questions remain about durability of vaccine protection, expert says

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Case Against Perioperative Beta-Blockers Grows Stronger

Excess postoperative strokes, and accompanying racial disparities, tied to any beta-blocker use

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Shorter Course of Antibiotics Works for Bloodstream Infections

With few exceptions, treatment can be shortened to 7 days, researcher says

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Novel Monoclonal Antibody Protects Infants Against RSV

Clesrovimab reduced severe disease, hospitalizations in preterm and term healthy infants

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Stroke Survivors Still Prescribed a 'Concerning' Amount of Benzos

Red flag in nationwide data despite improvement since 2013

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Nurse in Critical Condition; JD Vance's Mom Got Obamacare; Bird Flu Cluster Grows

Health news and commentary gathered by 51成人动漫 staff

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Safety Data Favor Diuretic Strategy Triggered by Cardiac Monitoring Alerts in HF

Effectiveness of this personalized approach now under investigation

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Elamipretide for Barth Syndrome Survives FDA Advisory Vote

Panelists acknowledge difficulty generating stronger data in ultra-rare disease

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FDA's Promised Guidance on Pulse Oximeters Unlikely to End Decades of Racial Bias

Devices three times as likely to miss dangerously low blood oxygen in Black patients

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