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Hemorrhage-control device holds up in real-world review
Timely use of a new vacuum-induced bleeding control device may improve maternal outcomes.
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Despite effective therapies, fibroid care still lacking
The biggest challenge is to ensure that women can take advantage of the newer minimally invasive therapies.
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Low-dose aspirin provokes no flares in patients with IBD during pregnancy
Study provides more data on the safety of aspirin use during pregnancy in patients with IBD.
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Risks quantified in medically optimized pregnancy with lupus
Patients who were not medically optimized for pregnancy were three times more likely to experience preterm birth and preeclampsia.
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‘Smart’ stethoscope spots peripartum cardiomyopathy
Finding that 4% of the women in the intervention arm had reduced ejection fraction is “absolutely startling ... and speaks to how important...
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Why don’t doctors feel like heroes anymore?
“None of us are invincible,” and it’s dangerous to forget that “the people behind the symbols are also human.”
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Are we ready for systematic newborn genome sequencing?
In the future, DNA samples could be taken from babies for whole genome sequencing to look for diseases that are likely to crop up later in life....
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More evidence of better outcomes with 120–mm Hg BP target
“We are doing very badly in terms of implementation. There is a big gap between science and what’s happening in the real world.”
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Do patients follow up on referrals after telehealth visits?
Investigators retrospectively examined test and referral orders for more than 4,000 patients to see how many complied with recommendations to have...
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UHC accused of using AI to skirt doctors’ orders, deny claims
The case raises ethical and legal questions about whether AI can replace or supplement human tasks and interactions.
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Before signing an offer letter: Read this
Some employers play on the fact that younger doctors ... tend to be trusting or feel they don’t have negotiation power.