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AI Assistant Offers Promise for Patients After HFrEF
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (853+ words) Add to Email Alerts An artificial intelligence (AI) virtual assistant supervised by nonclinical staff helped recently hospitalized patients with new diagnosis of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) achieve guideline-directed medical therapy optimization, a new pilot study suggested. In…...
Teen Cannabis Use Tied to Increase in Serious Mental Illness
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (677+ words) Cannabis use in adolescence was associated with a significantly greater likelihood of developing serious psychiatric disorders " particularly psychosis and bipolar disorder " in early adulthood compared to no cannabis use, a large longitudinal cohort study found. Researchers analyzing electronic health record…...
NPs Surpass Psychiatrists in Mental Health Prescribing
3+ hour, 44+ min ago (7+ words) NPs Surpass Psychiatrists in Mental Health Prescribing'Medscape...
Is Multi-State Licensure Worth It?
19+ hour, 16+ min ago (569+ words) Ericka L. Adler, JD, LLM Shareholder, Health Care, Roetzel & Andress, Chicago, Illinois Disclosure: Ericka L. Adler, JD, LLM, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships. Add to Email Alerts This transcript has been edited for clarity." To submit a legal/professional healthcare question…...
Medicare Part D and Dermatologic Care: A Changing Landscape
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (580+ words) Medicare Part D and Dermatologic Care: A Changing Landscape'Medscape The Changing Landscape of Medicare Part D and Dermatologic Care Dermatologist, Department of Dermatology, Kaiser Permanente, Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, Washington, DC Disclosure: Klint Peebles, MD, has disclosed the following relevant…...
Going Home: Discharge Tips for CMC Patients
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (923+ words) At 8 years old, he was a happy second grader and enthusiastic soccer player. Then, his family's car hit a median on the highway, and the crash ejected him from the vehicle. He spent nearly 3 months in the hospital, treated for…...
PSMA PET: Prostate Cancer Staging Revolution Awaits RCT Data
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (811+ words) M. Alexander Otto, PA, MMSc Add to Email Alerts Over the past decade or so, prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT has increasingly replaced conventional imaging in men with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy. PSMA PET/CT is far more sensitive…...
Moving the Regulatory Goalpost in Vaccine Innovation
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (881+ words) Demetre C. Daskalakis, MD, MPH Disclosure: Demetre C. Daskalakis, MD, MPH, has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:Serve(d) as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant, or trustee for: Sanofi Pasteur; AstraZeneca; ViiV; Wellness Equity Alliance; RoonReceived income in an amount…...
RSV Vaccine in Multidose Vial Matches Single-Dose Vial
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (197+ words) Edited by Devyani Gholap Add to Email Alerts In healthy, nonpregnant women, the multidose vial presentation of the respiratory syncytial virus prefusion F protein vaccine (RSVpreF) matched the licensed single-dose vial in neutralizing immune responses to both RSV A and…...
Wrist-Worn Sleep Trackers Predict Depression Relapse
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (564+ words) Add to Email Alerts Passively collected sleep and activity data detected early warning signs of depression relapse weeks before a full episode emerged, results of a longitudinal cohort study showed. In a 1- to 2-year study of 93 adults with remitted major…...