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Face Masks Offer Slight Protective Effect From Flu-Like Illness

Apr 10, 2020

Small reduction seen in risk for developing respiratory symptoms from casual exposure in community

Middle-Age Lifestyle Changes Can Cut Women’s Stroke Risk

Apr 10, 2020

Effective strategies include quitting smoking, starting exercise, maintaining healthy weight, eating healthy food

Doctors Report on Four COVID-19 Infections in Newborns in China

Apr 10, 2020

Newborn babies and infants appear to be less vulnerable to poor outcomes with COVID-19

Neurologic Effects Seen in a Third of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients

Apr 10, 2020

Manifestations include acute cerebrovascular diseases, impaired consciousness, skeletal muscle injury

Temperature, UV Radiation Not Linked to Incidence of COVID-19

Apr 10, 2020

Spread ability of COVID-19 not expected to change with increasing temperature, increasing UV exposure

Physician’s Briefing Weekly Coronavirus Roundup

Apr 10, 2020

Here is what the editors at Physician’s Briefing chose as the most important COVID-19 developments for you and your practice for the week of April 6 to 10, 2020. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal studies and other trusted sources that is most likely to affect clinical practice. FDA Approves New Way […]

What’s Missing In The Coronavirus Response

Apr 9, 2020

In the age of coronavirus, Americans are being told to stay home and wear masks outside. The federal government has made way for hospitals to treat patients in repurposed hotels and dormitories. Private companies are working to...

What Does Recovery From COVID-19 Look Like? It Depends. A Pulmonologist Explains.

Apr 9, 2020

Reports of recovery from serious illness caused by the coronavirus have been trickling in from around the world.Physicians are swapping anecdotes on social media: a 38-year-old man who went home after three weeks at the...

Long Term Results Favor CABG—Is This Surprising?

Apr 9, 2020

Ever since the first interventional cardiologist threaded a catheter into an occluded artery in the heart and inflated a balloon to widen the narrowed artery, a turf war has ebbed and flowed between interventionalists and...

Special Considerations: A Patient’s Perspective on Covid-19— Deb’s Journey

Apr 9, 2020

In this exclusive video, medical writer Deb Liao, PharmD, shares her experience as a Covid-19...

SEP-1 Bundle Doesn’t Reduce Mortality in Treating Sepsis

Apr 9, 2020

Adherence to the SEP-1 sepsis bundle — a quality care metric for managing early sepsis — is not associated with improved outcomes, researchers found.Jonathan D. Baghdadi, MD, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and...

SGO: Veliparib Add-on to Chemo Benefits Ovarian Ca Patients Independent of HRD Status

Apr 9, 2020

The addition of veliparib during chemotherapy and maintenance benefits women with high-grade serous ovarian cancer without BRCA mutations independent of homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) status, according to an analysis...

Covid-19: Physicians Groups Demand Data on Race, Ethnicity

Apr 9, 2020

That there is racial and ethnic disparity in care is not really news; however, these inequities are now blatantly evident during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seven physician organizations are demanding that the Health and Human...

FDA OKs Another Generic Albuterol Inhaler Amidst Shortage

Apr 9, 2020

WASHINGTON — The FDA approved the first generic alternative to the Proventil HFA (albuterol sulfate) Metered Dose Inhaler, 90mcg/Inhalation, for the treatment or prevention of bronchospasm in patients 4 years and older.The...

ANNOUNCE Trial Disappoints — Overall Survival Not Improved in Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Apr 9, 2020

The addition of the beleaguered drug olaratumab to doxorubicin did not prolong overall survival (OS) in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcomas (STS) compared with doxorubicin alone, the randomized phase III ANNOUNCE trial...