When it comes to thyroid cancers, the more you look, the more you find. Scanning technology developed over the past few decades has made it easier to find small thyroid nodules, even when scanning other parts of the body (these are called “incidental findings”). More scanning has led to an increasing number of thyroid cancer […]
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One telemedicine vendor, which is giving away its technology for two months during the pandemic, discusses the value of virtual care during physical distancing.
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Rates of death in the groups treated with the drugs were worse than for those who received no treatment, and rates of patients on ventilators were similar, the study found.
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This cluster randomized clinical trial tests the effects of receipt of a paper-based mammography screening decision aid for women 75 years and older on their screening decisions.
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A potential silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic? An opportunity to permanently stop doing unnecessary elective procedures.
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Reports of success in a Chicago trial suggest the drug has promise, not that it works.
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Gilead Sciences Inc’s shares surged 16% in after hours trading on Thursday following a media report detailing encouraging partial data from trials of the U.S. company’s experimental drug remdesivir in severe COVID-19 patients.
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Elective surgeries have been halted as part of the health system's response to coronavirus. But many are unnecessary and shouldn't be rescheduled after the pandemic ends.
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Preprint servers and peer-reviewed journals are seeing surging audiences, with many new readers not well versed in the limitations of the latest research findings.
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Recent research finds that websites for lung cancer screening programs tout the benefits of screening, but the harms...not so much.
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Many are clearly lifesaving, but others have proved to be life-threatening, and dangerous implants are marketed with scant oversight.
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What good is a test if you don’t know it’s giving you reliable results?” one expert said. Concerns are mounting that a lack of accurate testing will make it more difficult for America to relax social distancing.
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As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can.
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If the iconoclasts are right, putting coronavirus patients on ventilators could be of little benefit to many and even harmful to some.
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On March 19, the president said he “slashed red tape to develop vaccines” and “eliminated outdated rules and bureaucracies” for drug approvals. He announced that chloroquinine is a possible medication to combat the coronavirus. The Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, just approved it for limited use.
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Widespread use of unproven drugs could hurt clinical trials
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We could be identifying more Covid-19 cases now, without the swab tests we’re screaming for. Here’s how.
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Some health experts have suggested the rate of false-negative tests could be up to 30 percent.
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Even though the U.S. has stumbled badly on coronavirus testing testing, it’s not too late to slow the outbreak. Here’s how.
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Antibiotic therapy is often prescribed for suspected community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children despite a lack of knowledge of causative pathogen. Our objective in this study was to investigate the association between antibiotic prescription and treatment failure in children with suspected CAP who are discharged from the hospital emergency department (ED).
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