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High and Low Body Mass Indices Promote Respiratory Symptoms

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 23, 2024

“These results suggest that the risk of small airway obstruction in underweight individuals deserves more attention and that excessive wasting may ...

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Resistance Training Formats Compared in Patients With PsA

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 16, 2024

Two types of strength training were associated with similar improvements in function and disease activity in a randomized trial of patients with ps...

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Patients With Severe RA Improve Functional Limitations With Exercise Therapy

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 16, 2024

An intervention including goal setting, active exercise, and education was tailored to functional limitations.

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Left-Handed Med Students Still ‘Left Out’ in Surgery

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 16, 2024

New study suggests left-handed surgical students face difficulty and stigma in training.

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Obesity in Patients With RA Successfully Managed With Remote Diet, Exercise Intervention

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 16, 2024

An exercise and diet program using videoconferencing and YouTube reduced cardiovascular risk and improved patient-reported outcomes and disease act...

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SUDs rates highest in head, neck, and gastric cancer survivors

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 16, 2024

Alcohol use disorder was the most common type of SUD across multiple subtypes of cancer patients.

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Researchers Take Aim at Genetic Influence on Asthma and Allergy

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 12, 2024

Maternal influence on asthma and allergy to be examined in research on lipids.

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Severely Irregular Sleep Patterns and OSA Prompt Increased Odds of Hypertension

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 12, 2024

Individuals with OSA and severely irregular sleep had double the odds of hypertension.

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Circadian Blood Pressure Shifts Earlier in Children With Moderate to Severe OSA

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 5, 2024

In children with moderate to severe OSA, both systolic BP and diastolic BP were significantly elevated compared with the control group.

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Short Course of Amoxicillin Shows Effectiveness for Febrile UTIs

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 4, 2024

One reason may be that the antibiotic concentration in the urine often significantly exceeds the levels in the blood.

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Hospital Adverse Events Rise After Private Equity Acquisition

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: January 3, 2024

Notably, the incidence of surgical site infections increased from 10.8 per 10,000 hospitalizations before acquisition to 21.6 per 10,000 hospitaliz...

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Olympus provides recall correction for bronchoscopes to reduce fire risk

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: December 28, 2023

FDA statement details Olympus recall correction on use of bronchoscopes and bronchovideoscopes in order to address fire risk.

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Systemic Bias in AI Models May Undermine Diagnostic Accuracy

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: December 20, 2023

Clinicians’ accuracy decreased by 11.3% after viewing systematically biased AI model predictions compared with baseline.

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Thiazide Diuretics May Promote Hyponatremia

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: December 20, 2023

Adults who used thiazide diuretics for hypertension were more likely than were those who used nonthiazide agents to develop hyponatr...

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Blood Eosinophil-Directed Prednisolone Proves Noninferior to Standard Care for COPD Exacerbations

Author:: Heidi Splete

Publish date: December 19, 2023

“There was improvement of lung function, quality of life, and symptoms in exacerbations with low eosinophil count independent of whether placebo or...