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Contracting COVID-19 radically changed Tracey Thompson’s life. It’s been more than two years since the initial infection, but her symptoms still dictate her days, leaving her with heavy-weighted fatigue, robbing her of energy and her ability to work.

CELEBRATIONS were in order for a netball club in Windsor.

The findings have implications on both a clinical and policy level, researchers say.

The simple, personalized alerts embedded in EHRs led to increases in the number of GDMT classes prescribed.

Solving the problem will be more complex than pointing fingers: education and changes to workplace culture are needed.

June 11, 2021 Women are conspicuously absent as leaders of cardiovascular clinical trials—now, an “actionable road map” aims to rectify this imbalance by itemizing the core competencies required to lead a clinical trial, and by offering concrete steps that institutions, professional societies, industry, and public funding agencies can take to ensure clinical trials get more female principal investigators and chairs. “We must adopt transformative strategies to harness the strengths of wo...

December 21, 2020 Doctors put their own lives on the line in 2020, and in this tumultuous year—which saw a global pandemic, a deeply divided United States, plus eroding public confidence in science—they have been inspired to do something they’ve shied away from in the past: speak out. The desire to take a stand on something that’s not strictly “medical” is a relatively new phenomenon for the profession, where clinicians of all stripes have long been urged to keep their lives and vi...

December 10, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed hospitals and healthcare like nothing else this past century. Physicians themselves have fallen ill or died, passed the infection to their loved ones, and weathered grief, burnout, suicides, furloughs, and financial losses. As case numbers and fatalities continue to mount, some doctors are pinning their hopes on the notion that the pandemic has rocked the foundation of medicine, deconstructing and reinventing standard procedures in ways that ...