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Mashup Score: 6Mass Azithromycin Distribution to Prevent Child Mortality - 3 month(s) ago
This cluster randomized placebo-controlled trial examines the efficacy of single-dose azithromycin for prevention of all-cause childhood mortality in rural Burkina Faso.
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Mashup Score: 11Apixaban to Prevent Recurrence After Cryptogenic Stroke in Patients With Atrial Cardiopathy - 3 month(s) ago
This clinical trial compares the effectiveness of anticoagulation vs antiplatelet therapy for secondary stroke prevention in patients with cryptogenic stroke and evidence of atrial cardiopathy.
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Mashup Score: 3Thyroid Cancer—A Review - 3 month(s) ago
This narrative review summarizes current evidence regarding the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of early-stage and advanced thyroid cancer.
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Mashup Score: 9Neonatal Outcomes After COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy - 3 month(s) ago
This cohort study evaluates the risks of neonatal adverse events after exposure to COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy.
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Mashup Score: 5Delivery Device Patents on GLP-1 Receptor Agonists - 3 month(s) ago
This study analyzed the US Food and Drug Administration–listed patents on glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists to determine their claim characteristics and the potential barriers they pose to generic entry.
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Mashup Score: 13On Death and Courtship - 3 month(s) ago
In this narrative medicine essay, a professional writer pens a letter to the surgeon who tried to repair her brother’s coronary artery dissection to share her regret that neither she nor the physician discussed his imminent death.
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“Dear Doctor, Several years ago, my brother experienced a coronary artery dissection, & you tried very hard to save him.” This is the opening of a new A Piece of My Mind “On Death & Courtship” by Pamela Haag https://t.co/J1obJcR2Hc ….one of our Top Viewed this week at JAMA https://t.co/qFbm8DSxdd
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Mashup Score: 9Climate Change, Migration, and Health Disparities at and Beyond the US-Mexico Border - 3 month(s) ago
This JAMA Insights in the Climate Change and Health series discusses the increase in extreme weather events caused by climate change and how these events bring about increased migration due to effects on water availability, food access, and rates of endemic diseases.
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Mashup Score: 20Communicating Medicine—A New JAMA Series - 3 month(s) ago
The manner in which medical information is communicated by clinicians has a major effect on patients. However, patients also receive medical information from sources other than clinicians or health care environments. Although information from the mainstream media, the internet, or social media may…
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JAMA launched a new series “Communicating Medicine”https://t.co/FhuFVxqczy In this issue “Delivering Effective Messages in the Patient-Clinician Encounter”discusses strategies for clinicians to share credible & clear health information with their patients https://t.co/bXutWJrYlY https://t.co/QwP0Ft1klP
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Mashup Score: 8
This randomized clinical trial compares the effect of donor human milk on neurodevelopmental outcomes at 22 to 26 months’ corrected age compared with preterm infant formula among extremely preterm infants who received minimal maternal milk.
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Mashup Score: 9Acute Cholecystitis—A Review - 3 month(s) ago
This Review summarizes the risk factors, pathogenesis, diagnosis, types of diagnostic studies, and treatment for patients with acute cholecystitis.
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📣CHAT RCT out today https://t.co/psoco7iBlI “…a welcome addition to the literature on mass administration of azithromycin for prevention of mortality in infants & children, & suggests that it may have a beneficial effect even in areas in which seasonal malaria chemoprevention… https://t.co/D8mWDhzY7d https://t.co/LXKdQkU2n5