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CHICAGO — A “code blue button” to activate code teams via text message may expedite epinephrine administration and increase survival to discharge vs. code activation by overhead page or pager alerts, a speaker reported.

New data have linked more consistent use of CPAP treatment to lower risk for rehospitalization in older adults with obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease.

Self-reported blast exposure predicted respiratory symptoms and COPD among post 9/11 veterans who were deployed to Southwest Asia and Afghanistan, according to results published in Respiratory Medicine.

Infection mitigation with vaccines is essential for patients with hematologic malignancies because they are at increased risk for severe infection, hospitalization and mortality if they contract COVID-19.

A man who became the first in the world to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart has died 2 months after the procedure, according to a press release.

CareDx Inc. announced its non-invasive organ transplant surveillance solutions were used to monitor postoperative graft health in the first successful heart xenotransplantation.

Many adults with a traumatic brain injury had a persistent form of insomnia for up to 12 months, according to a prospective cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Substantial reductions in procedures used to diagnose cancer and in new cancer diagnoses occurred across the U.S. because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a review of a large database of U.S. veterans published in Cancer.

SAN DIEGO — Compared with internal fixation of minimally displaced fractures, arthroplasty may reduce the risks of mortality and reoperation in patients with femoral neck fractures, according to a presenter.

Intracerebral hemorrhage disproportionately affected and occurred earlier in uninsured Black and Hispanic people with untreated hypertension, according to study data published in JAMA Network Open.