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..., led by Jalwa Javed Farooqi, Department of Medicine, Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar & Department of Community Health Sciences, Peshawar Medical... ...College, Riphah International University Islamabad- Pakistan, determined the prevalence, risk factors, and their association with Hepatitis B and... ...In the pilot case-control study, the investigators examined 21 patients in the Gynecology & Obstetrics units of Tertiary Care Hospitals of Peshawar... ...including HBsAg positive with ELIZA positive HCV, while the negative ones were in the control group....

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...Deepak Bhatt, MD, MPHCredit: Mount Sinai Heart On May 26, 2023, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals announced news many in the community had been waiting for... ..., with bated breath, since Deepak Bhatt, MD, MPH, debuted the results of SOLOIST-WHF and SCORED trials at the American Heart Association"s 2020 Scientific... ...Ahead of the approval of sotagliflozin, our editorial team sat down with Bhatt, director of Mount Sinai Heart, to discuss the potential approval,... ...sotagliflozin had received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for treatment of heart failure....

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...New prospective data show more adult patients achieved clinical response with ketamine than the historic standard ECT over a 6-month regimen.... ...Intravenous ketamine may provide similar benefit to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for treatment-resistant major depression, according to data from... ...Led by Amit Anand, MD, of the department of psychiatry at Brigham and Women"s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, investigators sought compare the... ...The outcomes implicate potentially greater use for the once-controversial therapy, which has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration...

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...Westyn Branch-Elliman, MD, MMSc A high-sensitivity algorithm has been developed that provides clinicians" feedback on the harms of unnecessarily... ...antibiotics, according to new research on patients with periprocedural antibiotic prophylaxis.1 Antibiotics are some of the most frequently-used drugs... ...This study, led by Westyn Branch-Elliman, MD, MMSc--from the Center for Organization and Implementation Research at VA Boston Healthcare System in... ...Branch-Elliman and colleagues wrote that their goal was to “develop an electronic tool using structured and unstructured data elements available...

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...Guymer Credit: Center for Eye Research Australia New research suggests a clinical diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was not associated with... ...Professor Robyn H.... ...Guymer, MBBS, PhD, from the Centre for Eye Research Australia at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital.... ...Participants with AMD in the current analysis were recruited from existing natural history studies at the Centre for Eye Research Australia and ophthalmology...

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...and Ethical Oversight, Patient Centered Research at the Global Healthy Living Foundation, interviews Susan Goodman, MD, professor of Clinical Medicine... ...In the first podcast episode of Relatable Rheumatology: From Studies to Stories, Shilpa Venkatachalam, PhD, MPH, director of Research Operations... ...Venkatachalam also mentions a Global Healthy Living Foundation study in which adult patients registered in the ArthritisPower registry were invited... ...The podcast is a co-production by the Global Healthy Living Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for...

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...Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA A post hoc analysis of the phase 3 EMPEROR-Preserved trial suggests empagliflozin treatment in patients with heart failure... ...A posthoc analysis of the EMPEROR-Preserved trial suggested empagliflozin decreased the risk of heart failure hospitalization or cardiovascular death... ...and White Research Institute.... ...did not modify the benefit of dapagliflozin on these outcomes,” wrote the investigative team, led by Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, at the Baylor Scott...

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...MJH Life Sciences studio for a special edition recording to explore the implications of the clearance, dispel misconceptions surrounding the system... ...Technology 9:36 - What's Next for Beta Bionics 11:10 - T2D Outcomes with AID When the diabetes community looks back at 2023, it may be seen as a... ...Isaacs include Eli Lilly and Company, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, Abbott Diabetes Care, Dexcom, Medtronic, and others.... ...PharmD, an endocrine clinical pharmacist and coordinator of the Remote Monitoring Program at the Cleveland Clinic, and Natalie Bellini, DNP, program...

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...to be somewhat higher in the US and Europe compared to Africa and Asia, according to new findings.1 The occurrence of different autoimmune diseases... ...global prevalence rates of autoimmune conditions such as multiple sclerosis and psoriasis highlights important information for future research and medical... ...This research was authored by Fan Cao, MD, from the Department of Ophthalmology at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University in... ...to Africa and Asia....

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...A session led by Victor Kim, MD, Professor, Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Director, Pulmonary... ...Thoracic Society (ATS) 2023 International Conference in Washington, DC, with key opinion leaders urging healthcare professionals to look beyond... ...Research Global Prevalence of Psoriasis, MS, Other Autoimmune Diseases Higher in America, Europe... ...“In routine visits sometimes it's hard as a pulmonologist or a specialist trying to see a patient with advanced lung disease,” Kim said, “they'll...