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Mashup Score: 12Chronic kidney disease in primary care: risk of cardiovascular events, end stage kidney disease and death - BMC Primary Care - 2 year(s) ago
Background The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing globally. Early diagnosis in primary care may have a role in ensuring proper intervention. We aimed to determine the prevalence and outcome of CKD in primary care. Methods We performed an observational cohort study in primary care in Copenhagen (2001–2015). Outcomes were stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), heart failure (HF),…
Source: BioMed CentralCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 4Seemin Jamali passes away in Karachi - 2 year(s) ago
She was under treatment in a critical condition
Source: SamaaCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0“It’s Not About Me”: Coping With Grief and Loss as a Medical Professional - Physician's Weekly - 2 year(s) ago
Are healthcare professionals entitled to feel as badly as family members when a patient dies? As I sat with a family who decided to terminally extubate their critically ill child, I couldn’t be overwhelmed by the sadness because it wasn’t about me. As I watched the emergency team perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on an infant with
Categories: Latest Headlines, PediatricsTweet
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Mashup Score: 0What We’re Reading: Prior Authorization for Colonoscopies; Stalled Infant, Maternal Death Prevention; Hospital Police Forces - 2 year(s) ago
UnitedHealthcare will require most colonoscopies to have prior authorization; the World Health Organization says that progress in reducing maternal and infant deaths has halted; hospitals are creating their own police forces to address increasing violence against staff.
Source: AJMCCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2
Background So far, the few prospective studies on near-death experience (NDE) were carried out only in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with homogeneous aetiologies, such as cardiac arrest or trauma survivors. The aims of this 1-year prospective and monocentric study were to investigate the incidence of NDE in ICU survivors (all aetiologies) as well as factors that may affect its frequency, and…
Source: BioMed CentralCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 3Terrorism and Bathtubs: Comparing and Assessing the Risks - 2 year(s) ago
The likelihood that anyone outside a war zone will be killed by an Islamist extremist terrorist is extremely small. In the United States, for example, some six people have perished each year since …
Source: Taylor & FrancisCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Leading Causes of Death Hit Childhood Cancer Survivors Earlier - 2 year(s) ago
But excess risk lowest in survivors with a healthy lifestyle
Source: www.medpagetoday.comCategories: Latest Headlines, Oncologists2Tweet
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Mashup Score: 0Losing Ceci - 2 year(s) ago
In this narrative medicine essay, a critical care physician’s shared grief with a father who also recently experienced the death of a young child helps guide him back from his family’s unimaginable loss.
Source: jamanetwork.comCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1
Article courtesy of Dr. Joel Kahn, MD, who is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, one of the world’s top cardiologists, a best-selling author, lecturer, and a leading expert in plant-based nutrition and holistic care.
Source: WorldHealthCategories: Expert Picks, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 8The Covid-19 pandemic and the expansion of the mortality gap between the United States and its European peers - 2 year(s) ago
The mortality gap between the United States and other high-income nations substantially expanded during the first two decades of the 21st century. International comparisons of Covid-19 mortality suggest this gap might have grown during the Covid-19 pandemic. Applying population-weighted average mortality rates of the five largest West European countries to the US population reveals that this…
Source: journals.plos.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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