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Midodrine reduces fainting in young patients
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- Donavyn Coffey
The absolute risk reduction for vasovagal syncope was 19 percentage points in a new study.
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Married docs remove girl’s lethal facial tumor in ‘excruciatingly difficult’ procedure
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- Donavyn Coffey
This patient was much like the cases they treat every day, only “several orders of magnitudes greater,” Dr. Waner said. “On a scale of 1 to 10 she...
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Conflicting medical opinions: Black lungs, Big Coal, and bias
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- Donavyn Coffey
Study provides empirical evidence that doctors’ conflict of interest – namely, the coal companies that hired...
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The pandemic is making periods unbearable for some women
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- Donavyn Coffey
The stress and loss of normalcy over the last year appear to have altered cycles and amplified the premenstrual syndrome symptoms many women...
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Doctors search for missing link between COVID-19 and ITP
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- Donavyn Coffey
“We don’t know much about platelet counts in COVID-19 at all.”
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Patient health suffers amid pandemic health care shortages
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- Donavyn Coffey
More than half of clinician respondents to a survey said they saw a decline in patient health because of delayed or inaccessible care.
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Primary care isn’t bouncing back
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- Donavyn Coffey
The latest survey responses confirm what researchers had suspected.