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Influenza vaccine effectiveness was significantly lower among immunocompromised adults compared with nonimmunocompromised adults during the severe 2017-2018 influenza season, according to a study. The number of immunocompromised individuals has increased in the last several years, due to higher life expectancy and higher numbers of patients undergoing solid organ and stem cell transplants, advanced cancer treatment, and new immunomodulating and immunosuppressive drugs to treat autoimmune and inf...

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Healio and Cardiology Today have aggregated the most-read HF news of 2020. Readers were most interested in the impact of COVID-19 in HF; the FDA approval of dapagliflozin for HFrEF; iron supplementation for deficiency in acute HF; and more. Patients who developed HF at any time after their diabetes diagnosis had the greatest relative and absolute risk for death at 5 years compared with those with diabetes who had other CV or renal diagnoses, researchers reported. Read more The incidence of stres...

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Kenneth H. Kim, MD, has been appointed director of Cedars-Sinai Cancers division of gynecologic oncology. Kim also will serve as chair of the centers committee for oversight of training and education. Kim most recently served as associate professor in the division of gynecologic oncology at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also served as director of multispecialty robotic training and education, as well as associate fellowship program director in the division of gynecologic oncology. ...

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Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company and The Center for Bone and Joint Surgery have announced a partnership to develop a platform for musculoskeletal care in southeast Florida, according to a release. The Center for Bone and Joint Surgery is a Palm Beach-based, multi-location orthopedic practice that specializes in orthopedics, sports medicine, joint replacement, trauma, fracture repair and spine injury. Combined with the proprietary care management platform of Healthcare Outcomes Performance...

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COVID-19 lockdowns in several cities affected air pollution less than expected, according to a study published in Science. Zongbo Shi, PhD, professor of atmospheric biogeochemistry at the University of Birmingham, and colleagues used a weather normalization method to isolate changes in air pollutant concentrations and evaluate air quality impacts from lockdown zones in 11 cities: Beijing and Wuhan, China; Milan; Rome; Madrid; London; Paris; Berlin; New York; Los Angeles; and Delhi, India. They f...

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Healio/OSN editors compiled a list of the most-read blog posts from 2020. Encouraging words in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and other meditations on the topic led last years blog posts. Read some of the best-performing entries below. BLOG: Use your physician superpowers during the coronavirus epidemic Regardless of specialty, all us physicians are struggling during this pandemic to manage our patients, our practices and our lives. Read more. BLOG: COVID -- three immediate action steps The C...

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Healio Gastroenterology presents the following reports on the most recent research in the microbiome. These reports include research on the impact of the microbiome on obesity, asthma and COVID-19. A healthy diet may be linked with gut microbes that correlate with a lower risk for developing conditions including obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to a report published in Nature Medicine. This study demonstrates a clear association between specific microbial species in...

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