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Simple changes in care reduced heart exposure during lung cancer radiation treatment
By raising awareness about the correlation between increased radiation exposure and cardiac events, average doses were reduced without minimizing cancer treatment. 
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What causes nosebleeds in children?
The top causes for a bloody nose and simple ways parents can control them.
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Study: Older adults with rheumatoid arthritis still undermedicated, despite aggressive guidelines
Research shows adults with rheumatoid arthritis are underprescribed disease-modifying drugs, despite guidelines saying otherwise. Clinicians must treat rheumatic diseases while addressing multimorbidity and polypharmacy.
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Advising China's first Olympic medevac program
How Beijing's emergency air service operations worked with the Survival Flight team before the start of games.
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Pulse oximeters are less accurate in Black children
Black children hospitalized with critical illness were more likely to have unrecognized low oxygen levels than White children due to inaccurate pulse oximeter readings, findings consistent with the same health disparity seen in adults.
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Half of older adults now die with a dementia diagnosis
More awareness and more detailed health records may explain rise; end-of-life care shifting as diagnoses allow for more advance planning.
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Generous gift from LSO founder and wife makes the orchestra’s future bright
Michael DiPietro, M.D., and his wife Alice Fishman have helped ensure that the LSO will endure far into the future, with a generous gift that helps create an endowment for the orchestra.
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New guidelines overhaul best practices for heart failure prevention, diagnosis and treatment
Updated heart failure management guidelines add recommendations for the use of SGLT inhibitors and for managing patients with cancer therapy-related cardiotoxicity.
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High blood sugar and suPAR levels independently worsen COVID-19 outcomes
The largest study to investigate the role of inflammatory biomarkers in hospitalized COVID-19 patients uncovers risk factors for worse health outcomes in those with diabetes.
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More adults are falling every year, despite prevention efforts
Despite prevention efforts, falls increase annually, with wide variations in incidence based on geography, research finds.
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Start the Day
In 2011, Ruth was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. Understanding that it is an incurable disease, she puts her best foot forward by starting each day with gratitude, receiving her treatment, and staying healthy. She cherishes the opportunity it is to wake up each day and choose her inner strength. This is her story and advice to others.
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Racial and ethnic disparities exist in prescribing rifaximin for patients with hepatic encephalopathy
Study reveals Black Americans experience significant health inequities when receiving treatment for the cirrhosis-related disorder.
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How to live pain-free with arthritis
Arthritis of the hands, wrist and fingers can be unbearable, but a doctor says you don’t have to live in agony.