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Conditions and diseases
A controversial study suggesting that masks may harm children by exposing them to high carbon dioxide levels was retracted on Friday. The research letter released in JAMA Pediatrics on June 30 had reported unacceptably high levels of carbon dioxide by…
A controversial study suggesting that masks may harm children by exposing them to high carbon dioxide levels was retracted on Friday.
The research letter released in JAMA Pediatrics on June 30 had reported unacceptably high levels of carbon dioxide by German standards in air inside masks worn by children in a laboratory environment.
In the retraction notice, the journal editors cited “numerous scientific issues,” that also included questions over the applicability …
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JAMA retracts controversial masks study
Conditions and diseases
A New Jersey physician assistant who was the state's first COVID-19 patient is speaking out from his hospital bed, calling his illness "severe" and raising concerns about his treatment. James Cai, a 32-year-old non-smoker with no other health conditions, has…
A New Jersey physician assistant who was the state’s first COVID-19 patient is speaking out from his hospital bed, calling his illness “severe” and raising concerns about his treatment.
James Cai, a 32-year-old non-smoker with no other health conditions, has been at Hackensack University Medical Center for about a week and says his illness has worsened significantly over that time.
“In the …
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A previously healthy clinician, now critically ill with COVID-19
Health policy
An article in the New York Times touting medicine as a family-friendly profession has stirred up critics who say it denies the reality of career sacrifice and gaps in leadership and pay that female physicians face. Writer Claire Cain Miller…
An article in the New York Times touting medicine as a family-friendly profession has stirred up critics who say it denies the reality of career sacrifice and gaps in leadership and pay that female physicians face.
Writer Claire Cain Miller profiled female doctors whose specialties afford them flexible work hours that make it easier to balance their professional and caregiving responsibilities. Britni …
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Is medicine really a model family-friendly profession?
From MedPage Today: Time to Retire Lithotripsy for Kidney Stones? More than 30 years ago, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) had a highly anticipated, much-ballyhooed introduction as a nonsurgical therapy for kidney stones. Obviating the need to cut the skin…
From MedPage Today:
- Time to Retire Lithotripsy for Kidney Stones? More than 30 years ago, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) had a highly anticipated, much-ballyhooed introduction as a nonsurgical therapy for kidney stones. Obviating the need to cut the skin or insert a device into the body, ESWL would use acoustic shock waves to pulverize
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Top stories in health and medicine, May 25, 2015
From MedPage Today: Testosterone Shots: Riskier Than Gels or Patches? Short-acting testosterone injections are associated with greater risk of cardiovascular events, hospitalizations, and death compared with gels or patches, according to a large retrospective cohort study. Liberia Declared Free of…
From MedPage Today:
- Testosterone Shots: Riskier Than Gels or Patches? Short-acting testosterone injections are associated with greater risk of cardiovascular events, hospitalizations, and death compared with gels or patches, according to a large retrospective cohort study.
- Liberia Declared Free of Ebola. In what the World Health Organization called a “monumental achievement,” Liberia
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Top stories in health and medicine, May 13, 2015
From MedPage Today: Newer Antiplatelet is Faster in Ad Hoc PCI. Ticagrelor (Brilinta) dropped platelet reactivity lower sooner when given on the table for patients going directly to revascularization after diagnostic angiography. Abandoned Painkiller Makes a Comeback. In 2006, in…
From MedPage Today:
- Newer Antiplatelet is Faster in Ad Hoc PCI. Ticagrelor (Brilinta) dropped platelet reactivity lower sooner when given on the table for patients going directly to revascularization after diagnostic angiography.
- Abandoned Painkiller Makes a Comeback. In 2006, in the midst of a growing opioid epidemic, the FDA approved the new
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Top stories in health and medicine, May 12, 2015
From MedPage Today: Hearts Different for ART Kids? Cardiac systolic and diastolic function were altered at age 5 among Chinese children born of assisted reproductive technology (ART). Doctor Reviews the Ethical Review Boards. When Robert Klitzman, MD, first began researching…
From MedPage Today:
- Hearts Different for ART Kids? Cardiac systolic and diastolic function were altered at age 5 among Chinese children born of assisted reproductive technology (ART).
- Doctor Reviews the Ethical Review Boards. When Robert Klitzman, MD, first began researching institutional review boards (IRBs), he was struck by how little he —
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Top stories in health and medicine, April 29, 2015
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