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Herd Immunity 101: Explaining Vaccination Effectiveness to Patients
Detailing the importance of immunization and clarifying the concept of herd immunity to patients is a worthwhile conversation at any time but especially relevant in the COVID-19 era, rife with an abundance of information and misinformation. A good way to approach the subject is to change the terminology. “Herd immunity originally applied to farm animals,”…
Medicine Meets Magical Realism in Night Theater, a Novel by Oncologist and Researcher Vikram Paralkar
In a remote Indian village, a murdered family of three walks into a rural clinic asking a surgeon for help. If he can mend the wounds of the dead before sunrise, the family will live again. Stunned, surgeon Saheb takes on the challenge nonetheless—just like doctors do in everyday life, not knowing what they may…
Cartoon: Surgery Fan
Primary Care Visits Dropped in Early Months of the Pandemic
Use of telemedicine increased, but fewer BP and cholesterol assessments being performed
Cartoon: TikTok Teen
CDC Recommends No Travel for Thanksgiving
Agency says it is best to restrict Thanksgiving dinners to people living in the same household
Frequency of Alcohol Consumption Up During Pandemic
Increase in frequency overall, for adults aged 30 to 59 years, for women, and for non-Hispanic Whites
Lockdown Tied to Worsening of Musculoskeletal Conditions
About half of U.K. patients experienced an increase in symptoms during early stages of the pandemic
AI-Based Point-of-Care Pediatric DR Screenings May Improve Diagnosis Rates
Research shows that point-of-care diabetic retinopathy screenings that provide immediate results and are likely to lead to an in-office exam for patients who need it.
How Breast Cancer Patients Really Feel About Endocrine Therapy
Conventional quality-of-life studies usually don’t measure what’s meaningful to patients.
Clinical Case Challenge: Nodules on Hands and Feet
Two patients present with nodules on the feet and hands.
Coffee Consumption Affects Outcomes in Advanced, Metastatic CRC
A prospective observational study was conducted to assess the impact of diet and lifestyle on risk for disease progression among individuals with colorectal cancer.
Psychiatry Residency Training During COVID-19: Disruptions and Opportunities
COVID-19 has caused disruptions all across the world. In this piece, we take a look at what working during the pandemic has been like for psychiatric residents, as well as opportunities that the current situation has offered for learning.
American Psychiatric Association Publishes Updated Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Since publication of the last full practice guideline and guideline watch on schizophrenia, there have been a multitude of studies on new pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments for schizophrenia.
Opposition to a European Patent for CAR-T Therapy: A Mechanism to Control High Drug Prices?
The nongovernmental organizations argued that patents for this CAR-T should never have been granted in the first place because the underlying technology is not novel.
Real-World Antihypertensive Prescribing Deviates From Guidelines, Study Says
The aim of the study was to analyze antihypertensive utilization patterns among patients with uncontrolled hypertension despite receiving therapy.
Point-of-Care COVID-19 Antibody Test Gets Emergency Use Authorization
The reissued EUA allows for fingerstick blood samples to be tested in point-of-care settings.
How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Affect Cancer Clinical Trials
Risks of moving clinical trials online include missing key information about the patient experience — and higher dropout rates could also impair the overall quality of trials.
Staying on Antidepressants During Pregnancy Increases Risk of Obstetric Complications, Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders
Women who stopped antidepressant treatment during pregnancy and resumed in the following weeks had a rebound effect of increased prescription of benzodiazepines and anxiolytics.
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