ASTRO Issues Guideline on Radiation Therapy for Rectal Cancer
MONDAY, Oct. 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) — In a clinical practice guideline issued by the...
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Telemedicine Fatigue & the Stress of Remote Care
After 8 hours of back-to-back virtual engagement with parents, I found myself with a kind of...
Read MorePatient Nonadherence with ER Follow-Up & On-Call Obligations
I take ER calls as a plastic surgeon. The ER doctor performs the primary repair on cases for which they determine don’t warrant calling me and tells the patients to see me for follow-up. If the patient never calls, am I liable...
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Green Tea, Coffee Intake Linked to Reduced Mortality in T2DM
THURSDAY, Oct. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — For patients with type 2 diabetes, consumption of...
Read MoreCulture: Why the US Will Experience 500,000 COVID-19 Deaths
By Robert Pearl, MD from KevinMD.com Among the questions I’m asked most often as host of the podcast Coronavirus: The Truth are: “How have other nations effectively contained the pandemic?” and “Why can’t the United States copy...
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A Closer Look at the Association of Alcohol Intake With Hypertension in Type 2 Diabetes
Hypertension is a major global public health concern and continues to be the leading cause of...
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Relationship Explored Between Physical Activity and Lymphoma
TUESDAY, Oct. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) — High levels of physical activity may lower the...
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A Welcome Guideline for Managing Newly Diagnosed AML in Older Adults
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) generally develops in patients who fall into the “baby boomer”...
Read MoreCulture: Why the US Will Experience 500,000 COVID-19 Deaths
By Robert Pearl, MD from KevinMD.com Among the questions I’m asked most often as host of the podcast Coronavirus: The Truth are: “How have other nations effectively contained the pandemic?” and “Why can’t the United States copy...
Read MoreA COVID Love Note from a Mother Physician
The media is reporting the division of “sides” people are taking when it comes to the pandemic. Political agendas are pervasive and infiltrate people’s thoughts around COVID-19. As a physician, I think it’s important that...
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The Bidirectional Association Between Psoriasis & OSA
With psoriasis and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) sharing various comorbidities and having a common...
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Three-year follow-up of accelerated transepithelial corneal cross-linking for progressive paediatric keratoconus
Researchers did this study to investigate the long-term safety and efficacy of accelerated...
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Long-term visual outcomes of the Boston type I keratoprosthesis in Canada
Researchers did this study to evaluate Boston type I keratoprosthesis (KPro) surgery’s long-term...
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Visual and refractive outcomes and complications in femtosecond laser-assisted versus conventional phacoemulsification cataract surgery: findings from a randomized, controlled clinical trial
Researchers conducted this study to compare visual and refractive outcomes, changes in IOP, and...
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Effectiveness of an innovative and comprehensive eye care model for individuals in residential care facilities: results of the residential ocular care (ROC) multicentred randomized controlled trial
The researchers did this study to assess the clinical and patient-centered effectiveness of a...
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Normative patterns and factors associated with presbyopia progression in a multiethnic Asian population: the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study
Researchers conducted this research to investigate normative patterns and factors associated with...
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Analysis of Huntington’s and Parkinson’s Disease
The objective of this study was to use United States claims data to compare the prevalent...
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Multiple sclerosis of monozygotic Twins
A study was conducted that determines that blood biomarkers of multiple sclerosis (MS) can give a...
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MNGIE pregnancy: Clinical and Biochemical manifestations
Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE) is an acquired infection which is...
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Analysis of tremor-associated genes.
The main objective of this study is to understand Parkinson’s illness (PD) and fundamental...
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