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15h ago
(MedPage Today) -- LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Radial artery access has become the dominant approach for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), with real-world practice supporting the safety benefits of this strategy, according to registry data ..read more
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20h ago
(MedPage Today) -- Although the mechanistic relationship is still unclear, that periodontal disease is connected with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is no longer in question. A new study suggests that clinicians seeing patients with suspicious joint ..read more
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20h ago
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A primary care doctor reportedly was injured when he was among the mass arrests for protesting at City College in New York City. (amNY) A U.S. vascular surgeon ..read more
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2d ago
(MedPage Today) -- "Opioid emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere. Be the difference between life and loss." This is just one of the commercials you might have seen or heard for over-the-counter (OTC) naloxone (Narcan), the medication used to ..read more
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2d ago
(MedPage Today) -- A Medicaid official tried to walk a fine line Tuesday as House Republicans expressed their displeasure with new Medicaid rules implementing minimum nursing home staffing requirements and higher pay for home care workers. "While ..read more
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2d ago
(MedPage Today) -- Non-nephrologists frequently prescribed QT-prolonging medications with known torsades de pointes (TdP) risk to older dialysis-dependent patients, and often these prescriptions came from nonacute settings, a cross-sectional study ..read more
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3d ago
(MedPage Today) -- Americans living in rural areas had higher rates of preventable premature mortality from the five leading causes of death than those living in urban areas during the years 2010-2022, and the divide only appears to be growing ..read more
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3d ago
(MedPage Today) -- Researchers have long wondered whether activities that put weight stress on the knees, such as walking, running, or ball games, raise risks for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Now a lengthy prospective study provides an answer ..read more
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4d ago
(MedPage Today) -- Cardiovascular death had a strong tie to the somatic mutations that often accrue with aging in people with subclinical atherosclerosis, an observational study found. For asymptomatic people who had atherosclerosis detected by ..read more
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4d ago
(MedPage Today) -- From a clinical quality perspective, it's not complicated; Medicare Advantage (MA) works. As anyone with a television knows, MA ("also known as Part C") is the privately operated version of federally funded health insurance coverage ..read more