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UK COVID-19 Update: CVT Risk, and 'Exhausted' Doctors

News April 15, 2021

These are the UK coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
UK COVID-19 Update: Latest on Antibodies, 'Reassuring' Immune Response in Older People from Pfizer and AZ Vaccines

News April 14, 2021
Alternating COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Expands to Include Moderna and Novavax

News April 14, 2021

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White House: J&J Pause Won't Affect Vaccine Program

WebMD Health News April 14, 2021

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine makes up less than 5% of the more than 190 million reported shots in arms in the United States to date.
A Year Later, Feds Move to Better Protect Frontline Workers

Kaiser Health News April 14, 2021
What Ebola Has Taught Us About Managing COVID

Medscape Emergency Medicine April 8, 2021

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CDC Says Blocking Middle Airline Seats Could Reduce COVID Spread

WebMD Health News April 15, 2021
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MS Hospital Visits Increase in Warmer Weather

Medscape Medical News April 15, 2021
Why Are a Tiny Number of Vaccinated People Being Hospitalized?

ProPublica April 15, 2021
Cardiologists Can Perform Stroke Thrombectomy to Fill 'Unmet Need'

Medscape Medical News April 15, 2021
Nebraska Woman With Blood Clots After Vaccine Still Critical

Associated Press April 15, 2021
New Evidence Against Use of Fluoroquinolones in Aortic Disease

Medscape Medical News April 15, 2021
Antipsychotics Protective Against COVID-19?

Medscape Medical News April 15, 2021
Phage-Targeting PCR Test Picks Up Early Lyme Disease

Medscape Medical News April 15, 2021

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What Ebola Has Taught Us About Managing COVID

Commentary April 8, 2021

Drs Robert Glatter, Craig Spencer, and Syra Madad discuss lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic that the US should have learned from the Ebola crisis.
Short-term O2 Prescriptions Lead to Inappropriate Long-term Use

Viewpoint April 15, 2021

Dr Aaron Holley describes why oxygen prescriptions at hospital discharge are a far more pernicious cause of wasted resources.
The Diagnosis We're All Missing, and Why That Must Change

Commentary April 14, 2021
Is Cutting Salt Ever Harmful?

Commentary April 12, 2021

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Closed Pantalar Dislocations

Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons April 14, 2021
Silent Brain Infarction After TAVR

European Heart Journal April 14, 2021
Early Apixaban Use Following Stroke in Patients With AF

Stroke April 14, 2021
Pulmonary Pathology of COVID-19 Following Severe Disease

American Journal of Clinical Pathology April 12, 2021
Severe Pulmonary Disease Caused by M kumamotonensis

Emerging Infectious Diseases April 8, 2021
Erenumab in the Prevention of Episodic and Chronic Migraine

Headache April 5, 2021

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Managing Diffuse Peripheral Ischemia in Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Clinical Case April 14, 2021

A complex case of refractory peripheral ischemia in a 39-year-old man with APS and type 1 diabetes.
Fast Five Quiz: Schizophrenia Presentation and Diagnosis

Fast Five Quiz April 13, 2021
Patient Simulation: A 55-Year-Old Woman With Orthostasis and Worsening Paresthesia

Patient Simulation April 12, 2021
Strange Stool Color and Fatigue in a Man With COPD and AF

Case Challenge April 12, 2021

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One Doctor's Account of Long-term Care in the COVID Era

Medscape Internal Medicine April 15, 2021

For the last 5 months, geriatrician Christian Bergman, MD, has kept a journal of what it's been like to manage long-term care residents and staff — as well as train others — during a pandemic.
Black Med Students' Photos at Plantation Spark New Group

Medscape Medical News April 15, 2021
HHS Proposes Overturning Title X 'Gag' Rule

Medscape Medical News April 15, 2021
A Commission Should Probe Our Lame Response to the COVID Crisis

Medscape Business of Medicine April 14, 2021

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2021 Emergency Medicine Physician Burnout & Lifestyle Report: Are You More Burned Out Than Your Peers?

2021 Emergency Medicine Physician Burnout & Lifestyle Report: Are You More Burned Out Than Your Peers?