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Should antibiotic treatment be used toward the end of life?
Around 50% of patients develop an infection in the final months, weeks, or days before their deaths.
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The enemy of carcinogenic fumes is my friendly begonia
Also: Driving the gastrointestinal highway and pulling the plug on an unsupervised chatbot.
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Ancient plague, cyclical pandemics … history lesson?
Plus: AI detects invisible concussions and a janitor does more than clean.
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People still want their medical intelligence in human form
Plus: Finding humor in the temporal lobe and comparing reproductive inequality in mammals.
From the Journals
Review supports continued mask-wearing in health care visits
Masks continue to lower the risk of catching the virus during medical visits.
News from the FDA/CDC
CDC cuts back hospital data reporting on COVID
“CDC’s authorizations to collect certain types of public health data” expired with the PHE.
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The antimicrobial peptide that even Pharma can love
Faster wound healing comes in waves, and a cancer drug that eats bugs.
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Boys may carry the weight, or overweight, of adults’ infertility
Plus: The promise of fecal beads and the air of sleep-dieting.
From the Journals
H. pylori eradication therapy curbs risk for stomach cancer
The study is significant because “it is the first to show this effect in a large, diverse population in the U.S., where gastric cancer incidence...
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Medical-level empathy? Yup, ChatGPT can fake that
Plus: Fishy sperm, an even more fishy sperm donor, and aviation-related sleep deserts.
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Drive, chip, and putt your way to osteoarthritis relief
Plus: Gut diversity gets measured and dog walking gets dangerous.