The role of primary care physicians continues to expand to meet the increasing demand for more comprehensive and complex services.
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Artificial intelligence to predict which COVID-19 patients need ventilators
Experts at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, have begun using artificial intelligence to create computer models that calculate the risk
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These Gay Men Want to Donate Blood to Help COVID-19 Patients. But That's Against the Law.
The FDA has just amended its guidelines on blood donations from men who have sex with men (MSM), reducing the
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Alirocumab substantially reduces cholesterol in adult patients with HoFH
The cholesterol drug alirocumab reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by 35.6% compared to placebo in adult patients with homozygous familial
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Tool aids safe fasting for T2DM patients observing Ramadan
(HealthDay)—Use of the Fasting Algorithm for Singaporeans with Type 2 Diabetes (FAST) facilitates safe intermittent fasting for patients with diabetes
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COPD patients’ hospital stays 67% shorter due to one additional staff meeting, study finds
Hospitals can dramatically reduce the length of a patient’s stay (by up to 67%) when their provider teams hold integrated
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Patients are overpaying for air ambulance services because of a market failure within the industry
Talk about feeling airsick. The charges for air ambulance services in 2016 hovered between 4.1 and 9.5 times the rate
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Preoperative levels of heart proteins may help predict death or cardiac complications in patients undergoing surgery
Assessing preoperative levels of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), a biomarker of heart stress and structural changes, may improve risk
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Two patients die after eating absorbent gel granules in hospital
NHS hospitals are warned not to use absorbent gel granules to stop spillages after two confused patients DIED when they
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Robotic transplants safe for kidney disease patients with obesity
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report that among patients with obesity, robotic kidney transplants produce survival outcomes
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