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How blunt is too blunt for informed consent?
There’s a fine line between providing enough information on the risks and benefits of a particular treatment and knowing you’ve explained it well...
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Analysis of doctors’ EHR email finds infrequent but notable hostility
Researchers were struck by the hostility of negative sentiment in some emails to physicians.
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Gestational hypertension-diabetes combo signals CVD risk
Having both hypertensive disorders and diabetes while pregnant ups later cardiovascular risk, suggesting greater care is needed when these...
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A new use for dating apps: Chasing STDs
With people migrating online to meet partners, following them there makes sense.
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FDA requests more restrictions on ovarian cancer drugs
Several companies have already withdrawn their respective PARP inhibitors for heavily pretreated patients with ovarian cancer.
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Managing trastuzumab deruxtecan adverse events in the real world
Doctor says real-world toxicity experience has been worse than clinical trial data.
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Whole breast radiation for breast cancer shown to be safe and effective
Whole breast radiation can cut treatment time from 6 weeks down to 3 weeks.
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Buprenorphine linked with lower risk for neonatal harms than methadone
The risk of adverse maternal outcomes was similar between the two treatments, according to a large study.
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Women need not wait to conceive after miscarriage, abortion
No greater risk was shown of preterm birth, large for gestational age, preeclampsia, and gestational diabetes in women who became pregnant within...
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More work needed to optimize STI screening in primary care settings
Primary care doctors should incorporate some questions about sexual health during a regular head-to-toe checkup and ask questions in a very...
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Transgender patients on hormone therapy require monitoring
These patients have an increased mortality risk and so must be closely monitored, especially in terms of cardiovascular health and oncology.