Brittany Vargas

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Watchful Waiting Less Expensive, as Effective as Physical Therapy for Frozen Shoulder

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: February 21, 2024

Monitoring patients with shoulder adhesive capsulitis is as effective as and cheaper than PT, study says.

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New Antibiotic Promising for Complicated UTIs

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: February 20, 2024

Study suggests cefepime-taniborbactam could be useful in treating complex UTIs.

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Switching From IV to Oral Antibiotics Safe for Patients, Study Shows

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: February 12, 2024

New study suggests changing from IV to oral antibiotics may avert some risks.

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HPV Vaccine Shown to Be Highly Effective in Girls Years Later

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: January 30, 2024

Researchers correlated the rate of cervical cancer per 100,000 person-years with data on women regarding vaccination status, age when vaccinated, a...

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Corticosteroid Injections Don’t Move Blood Sugar for Most

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: January 23, 2024

Intra-articular corticosteroid injections pose a minimal risk of accelerating diabetes; the injections may temporarily raise glucose levels.

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Shingles Vaccine Offers 4 Years of Protection

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: January 11, 2024

People who received two doses of the vaccine, regardless of when they received their second dose, experienced 79% vaccine effectiveness during the ...

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Statin use remains low for at-risk patients

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: December 5, 2023

Statin usage increased since 1999 but peaked at 35% in 2013 despite expanded ACC/AHA guidelines.

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COVID vaccines lower risk of serious illness in children

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: December 1, 2023

“The findings in this report support the recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination for all children aged ≥6 months and highlight the importance of co...

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Children with sickle cell disease at risk for vision loss

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: November 8, 2023

“Our data underscores the need for patients – including pediatric patients – with sickle cell disease to get routine ophthalmic screenings along wi...

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Older adults at risk from inappropriate prescribing

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: November 2, 2023

The rates do not significantly differ between physicians and nurse practitioners.

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Here’s how to help Black smokers quit

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: October 25, 2023

Clinicians need to be more aggressive in recommending every treatment possible if one treatment fails.

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Vaccination status doesn’t impact infectivity timeline in kids

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: October 24, 2023

”Current policies requiring isolation for 5 days after a positive test might be appropriate, as the majority of children were not infectious by day...

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This is how you get patients back for follow-up cancer testing

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: October 10, 2023

“What concerns me is that despite the various interventions implemented to encourage and support patients to return for follow-up testing, over 60%...

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False-positive Pap smear may indicate genitourinary syndrome

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: October 4, 2023

Nearly all of the women who received local estrogen treatment had a normal Pap smear following therapy.

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This symptom signals UTI in 83% of cases

Author:: Brittany Vargas

Publish date: September 29, 2023

“Why has something so clear, so frequently present, never been described? The answer is simple: Physicians and patients do not talk about sex.”