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A short-stay strategy designed to lower cost of care may improve quality of life of low-risk patients with acute HF in the ED, but the trial was underpowered due to low enrollment during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported.

SAN DIEGO — Psilocybin has emerged as a potential treatment for depression and anxiety, including among patients with chronic rheumatic or autoimmune conditions, according to a speaker at the 2023 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West.

ED pediatric readiness was associated with decreased mortality among children with both acute medical emergencies and traumatic injuries, a study published in JAMA Network Open showed.

Cannabis use for several purposes, especially for physical health, was linked to a risk for problematic cannabis use, a study published in BMC Public Health found.

According to results published in the Journal of Arthroplasty, patients with obesity had greater improvements in patient-reported outcome measures after total knee arthroplasty compared with patients without obesity.

As institutions increasingly make use of clinical texting applications, emoji and emoticons have become a common feature of medical communications.

When she first enrolled as a freshman undergraduate student at West Virginia University, Carmella Evans-Molina, MD, PhD, never imagined she would become an award-winning diabetes researcher.

Heart transplant is the most effective treatment for end-stage HF but it is also the scarcest of HF therapies — particularly for patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

Patients with cancer who took part in advance care planning tended to have less aggressive and more comfort-based end-of-life care than those who did not, according to a study conducted by researchers at Regenstrief Institute.

Next-generation Cologuard exhibited improved colorectal cancer specificity and sensitivity compared with results of the FDA registrational trial that led to approval of the noninvasive screening test, its manufacturer reported.