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High-dose fish oil: ‘Intriguing’ results in COVID-19
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Pandemic stresses harder on physician moms than physician dads: Study
Study results suggest that the pandemic has increased gender disparity and added disproportionately to the burden of female physicians.
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What to do about pandemic PTSD
More than three-quarters of the health care workers reported symptoms that fell within the clinical range for depression (76%) and anxiety (78...
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Unvaccinated people 20 times more likely to die from COVID: Texas study
“The COVID-19 vaccines are doing an excellent job of protecting people from getting sick and from dying from COVID-19.”
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COVID-19 pill 'real game-changer' for preventing COVID death
The medication appears to work so well that Pfizer has stopped enrollment in the trial of the drug, which works by blocking a protease that the...
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COVID-19 has brought more complex, longer office visits
Patients’ increased mental health needs and worsened chronic conditions have practices playing catch-up and expanding teams to ease demand.
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Ivermectin–COVID-19 study retracted; authors blame file mix-up
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Feds launch COVID-19 worker vaccine mandates
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CDC endorses Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for young kids
No cases of myocarditis were seen in the studies, but myocarditis is a very rare side effect, and the studies were too small to pick up these...
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FDA authorizes Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids
As soon as the CDC’s director signs off on those recommendations, children can get the shots, perhaps as early as Nov. 3.