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August 15, 2021
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Sjögren's drug pipeline prepares for 'next wave' after longtime lapse in therapies

Novel therapeutic approaches and a robust drug pipeline may provide hope for patients with Sjögren’s syndrome, according to a presenter at the 2021 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology-East.

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August 13, 2021
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Pregnant women with COVID-19 have higher risk for preterm birth

Women diagnosed with COVID-19 while pregnant, particularly those with other comorbidities, had a higher risk for very preterm birth, preterm birth and early-term birth, a population-based study showed.

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August 09, 2021
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Opioid prescription laws provide ‘significant but limited outcome’

Laws in 23 states that capped the number of days a Medicare enrollee could receive an initial opioid prescription may have had their intended effect, a recent study showed.

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August 09, 2021
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NephroSant hires new lead to market home-based kidney transplant rejection test

NephroSant, a startup operating out of the University of California, San Francisco that developed a test to detect graft rejection following kidney transplantation, has hired Gina Ford, RPh, MBA, as its new chief commercialization officer.

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July 30, 2021
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Half of women without stable or any housing during pandemic report depression, anxiety

Approximately 50% of women experiencing homelessness or unstable housing during the COVID-19 pandemic had depression or anxiety symptoms, according to study results in a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

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July 27, 2021
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Mayo Clinic ranked No. 1 hospital in US for pulmonology, lung surgery

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was named the No. 1 hospital in the United States for pulmonology and lung surgery in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021-2022 Best Hospitals rankings and ratings.

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July 26, 2021
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Higher CTRP9 linked to worse pulmonary function in SSc-related interstitial lung disease

Higher circulating levels of the protein CTRP9 are associated with worse lung function in patients with systemic sclerosis-related interstitial lung disease, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

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July 19, 2021
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Habitual coffee consumption may lower risk for irregular heartbeat

Increasing amounts of habitual coffee consumption were inversely linked with a lower risk for arrhythmia, according to a prospective cohort study of nearly 400,000 adults in the United Kingdom.

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July 12, 2021
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Gender pay gap persists in academic internal medicine

Despite the increasing number of women entering academic internal medicine, researchers found that “substantial salary inequities persist at the highest faculty levels and specifically in procedural-based specialties.”

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July 09, 2021
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ACR, Vasculitis Foundation issue three new guidelines for 'expanded' vasculitis therapies

The American College of Rheumatology has released three new vasculitis treatment guidelines — for ANCA-associated vasculitis, giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis, and polyarteritis nodosa — with a fourth expected soon.

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