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A social worker-led palliative care intervention seems beneficial for patients with advanced heart failure at high risk for mortality

Social Worker-Led Intervention Beneficial in Heart Failure

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Palliative care intervention may up likelihood of revising prognostic assessment in line with doctor's
Metabolic syndrome is prevalent among patients with chronic hepatitis B infection

Metabolic Syndrome Common With Chronic Hep B Infection

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Metabolic syndrome also associated with higher alanine aminotransferase levels longitudinally
For metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Beneficial in Metastatic NSCLC

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And, nivolumab plus ipilimumab linked to better survival in NSCLC with high tumor mutational burden
In a position paper published online April 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine

Recommendations Developed on Gender Equity in Medicine

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ACP supports equitable physician compensation based on comparable work at each stage of career
Transplantation of organs from overdose-death donors is associated with similar five-year patient survival and graft survival as organs from trauma-death donors and medical-death donors

Similar Outcomes for Transplant With Overdose-Death Donors

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Outcomes similar for ODD recipients, recipients of organs from trauma-death, medical-death donors
Women are less likely than men to fill a prescription for high-intensity statins after hospitalization for myocardial infarction

Women Less Likely to Fill Post-MI Statin Prescription

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56 percent of men, 47 percent of women filled high-intensity statin after myocardial infarction
Most physician offices do not offer up-front payment flexibility or low-income discounts to uninsured people

Most Doctors’ Offices Don’t Offer Flexibility for Uninsured

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Most uninsured patients can make primary care appointment but only if can pay full cash amount
Pembrolizumab is associated with significantly longer recurrence-free survival than placebo as adjuvant therapy for high-risk stage III melanoma

Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Beneficial in Stage III Melanoma

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Pembrolizumab linked to significantly longer recurrence-free survival at 15-month follow-up
Transcription factors seem to operate across gene loci

TFs Operate Across Gene Loci Within Disease Phenotypes

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Epstein-Barr virus EBNA2 protein binds to multiple loci of genome, increasing risk of 7 serious diseases
Short-term exposure to fine particulate matter is associated with increased health care utilization for acute lower respiratory infection

Increased Pollution Exposure Ups Health Care Visits for Acute URI

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Health care use for URI higher within one week of elevated fine particulate matter, especially for infants