LAURA H. CYPHERS

This Medical News feature examines what the COVID-19 pandemic might look like this winter.
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Communities with fewer resources or less social or political power in an inequitable society often experience poor health as a consequence. Recognizing and addressing this reality is a moral and professional imperative for all committed to advancing health. But the COVID-19 pandemic and other recent infectious disease outbreaks laid bare another reality: in a global, interconnected world, the poor health of those more vulnerable has direct consequences for all.
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Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) is one of the most controversial topics in the treatment of critically ill patients. With the first study published almost 40 years ago, 2 major new contributions appear in this issue of JAMA. Unfortunately, these new studies do not close the book on SDD.
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This JAMA Patient Page describes measles infection, including prevention, symptoms of infection, contagiousness, and treatment.
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This Viewpoint examines pathways that advocates, policy makers, states, and Medicaid agencies can take to identify opportunities for state Medicaid agencies to protect and promote perinatal health.
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This study uses data from January/Q1 2022 Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Formulary files to compare premiums and total spending for users of long-acting insulin who selected prescription drug plans in 2022 and to estimate potential savings for beneficiaries who selected Senior Savings model-participating plans.
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This Medical News article discusses an out-of-season increase in respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, and other respiratory infections that is severely straining the pediatric health care system.
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A 62-year-old woman undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD) presented to the clinic with severe abdominal pain and cloudy PD fluid. Seven days prior, she inadvertently broke aseptic technique when tightening a leaking connection of her PD catheter tubing. Cloudy fluid that was drained from her PD catheter was sent for laboratory analysis. What would you do next?
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This Viewpoint discusses the market for generic drugs and an innovation surcharge that would be awarded to public entities, such as the National Institutes of Health, and its newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, to fund research for the repurposing of generic drugs.
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This Medical News article explores timely topics discussed at the annual IDWeek conference.
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