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Study: 10% of pregnant women test positive for COVID-19, with most asymptomatic
This study is based on ongoing living systematic reviews of the literature, in which information is posted in real time on the website.
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Does stirrup choice influence vaginal surgery outcome?
Patients positioned in boot stirrups had better physical function scores at 6 weeks postsurgery compared with those in candy cane stirrups.
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Postpartum tubal ligation safe in obese women
Complications and subsequent pregnancies were similar across BMIs.
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Small NY study: Mother-baby transmission of COVID-19 not seen
All of the 31 infants born to infected mothers tested negative.
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Higher stroke rates seen among patients with COVID-19 compared with influenza
Clinicians should be vigilant for symptoms and signs of acute ischemic stroke in patients with COVID-19.
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COVID-19 antibody tests proliferate, but what do they show?
“Having many inaccurate tests is worse than having no tests at all,” one critic says.
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Cancer care ‘transformed in space of a month’ because of pandemic
Changes brought about by COVID-19 may endure after the pandemic is over.
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Oncologists need to advocate for scarce COVID-19 resources: ASCO
The oncologist treating a patient should not make decisions about resource allocation for that patient, ASCO says.
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COVID-19 hits physician couple: Dramatically different responses
Their story, one of two people living together but with such different responses to the infection, illustrates how much is still to be learned...
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‘Brutal’ plan to restrict palliative radiation during pandemic
New guidelines recommend giving palliative radiotherapy only in oncologic emergencies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Maintaining cancer care in the face of COVID-19
Oncologists are moving cancer patients to other hospitals, reevaluating the need for cancer treatments, and embracing telemedicine to protect...
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COVID-19: Time to ‘take the risk of scaring people’
It’s past time to call the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, a pandemic and “time to push people to prepare, and guide their prep,” risk communication...