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email article Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are getting used off-label with prosthetic heart valves, even mechanical valves in some cases, a national registry showed. At least some valve patients were discharged with a DOAC prescription at 78.6% 0f the 1,092 hospitals and by 59.6% of the 2,731 physicians participating in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database from July 2014 through June 2017. For mechanical heart valve recipients, the rate was 1.1% with aortic valve replacement and 1.04% with mitral valve replacement, without significant change over time fo...

“Think of inflammation as the body’s natural response to protect itself against harm. There are two types: acute and chronic. You’re probably more familiar with the acute type, which occurs when you bang your knee or cut your finger. Your immune system dispatches an army of white blood cells to surround and protect the area, creating visible redness and swelling. The process works similarly if you have an infection like the flu or pneumonia. So in these settings, inflammation is essential – without it, injuries could fester and simple infections could be deadly,” writes Dr Deepak Bh...

Clinical Trials Are Moving Out of the Lab and Into People’s Homes After the pandemic forced thousands of trials to shut down, researchers found clever ways to conduct human studies remotely — while reaching more people, quickly and cheaply. Dr. Namandje Bumpus, a pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins University, is leading an investigation that has been on hold because of the pandemic.Credit...Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times By Emily Anthes Feb. 18, 2021 When the pandemic hit last year, clinical trials took a hit. Universities closed, and hospitals turned their attention to battli...

In some cases, anti-vaccine activists are fabricating stories of deaths that never occurred. “This is exactly what anti-vaccine groups do,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious diseases specialist and author of “Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science.” Anti-vaccine groups have falsely claimed for decades that childhood vaccines cause autism, weaving fantastic conspiracy theories involving government, Big Business and the media. Now, the same groups are blaming patients’ coincidental medical problems on COVID-19 shots, even when itâ€...

By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News Anti-vaccine groups are exploiting the suffering and death of people who happen to fall ill after receiving a covid shot, threatening to undermine the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history. “This is exactly what anti-vaccine groups do,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious diseases specialist and author of “Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science.” Anti-vaccine groups have falsely claimed for decades that childhood vaccines cause autism, weaving fantastic conspiracy theories involving government, Big Business an...