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Pharmacologic Approaches to Glycemic Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: Synopsis of the 2020 American Diabetes Association’s Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes Clinical Guideline
Description: The American Diabetes Association (ADA) updates the Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes annually to provide clinicians, patients, researchers, payers, and other interested parties with evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and management of...
Lower Back Pain: NSAID + Muscle Relaxant No Better Than NSAID + Placebo
Patients with lower back pain prescribed skeletal muscle relaxants in addition to NSAIDs report the same outcomes as placebo plus NSAIDs, new research shows. "Combining a skeletal muscle relaxant with an NSAID does not confer any additional benefit," Lorena Abril, MD,...
Add-On Atypicals for Depression Carry ‘Substantial’ Death Risk
"Our study in nonelderly adults with depression did not identify a single predominant cause of death. However, this may be a result of both the relatively small number of deaths in our study as well as of the well-recognized concerns regarding the accuracy of...
Government-Funded Scientists Laid the Groundwork for Billion-Dollar Vaccines
When he started researching a troublesome childhood infection nearly four decades ago, virologist Dr. Barney Graham, then at Vanderbilt University, had no inkling his federally funded work might be key to deliverance from a global pandemic. Yet nearly all the vaccines...
A Blueprint for Organizational Strategies To Promote the Well-being of Health Care Professionals
Organizational efforts to improve health care professionals’ well-being should be guided by acarefully crafted strategy supported by appropriate tactics. Many organizations mistake aconceptual model or a collection of tactics for a strategy. Strategies should relate...
How Practices Can Advance the Implementation of Integrated Care in the COVID-19 Era
ABSTRACT ISSUE: Preliminary data predict an increase in mental health needs in the U.S. population because of the COVID-19 pandemic and its socioeconomic consequences. Patients with chronic medical conditions are especially at risk for behavioral health conditions and...
Dr. Fauci offers 2021 forecast on COVID-19 vaccines, treatments
SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and various new treatments for COVID-19 may be on their way even before 2020 ends, but the damage caused by the deadly novel coronavirus may linger for months or even years, said Anthony S. Fauci, MD, during an exclusive interview presented during...
Joe Biden’s health care plan, explained in 800 words
Joe Biden has proposed a health care plan that could cover 25 million uninsured Americans. The question now that he’s won the White House is whether he can pass it. The Democratic president-elect has put forward a plan that would build on the Affordable Care Act...
Five Important Questions About Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine
Pfizer’s announcement on Monday that its COVID-19 shot appears to keep nine in 10 people from getting the disease sent its stock price rocketing. Many news reports described the vaccine as if it were our deliverance from the pandemic, even though few details were...
The story of mRNA: How a once-dismissed idea became a leading technology in the Covid vaccine race
ANDOVER, Mass. — The liquid that many hope could help end the Covid-19 pandemic is stored in a nondescript metal tank in a manufacturing complex owned by Pfizer, one of the world’s biggest drug companies. There is nothing remarkable about the container, which could...
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