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This channel newsfeed includes clinical content on treating patients or the clinical implications in a variety of cardiac subspecialties and disease states. The channel includes news on cardiac surgery, interventional cardiologyheart failure, electrophysiologyhypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

Covid Drugs

HHS goes live with online locator of COVID-countering therapeutic drugs

The agency has posted an interactive map showing the locations of drug distributors that have recently received shipments of two monoclonal antibody medications good for treating COVID-19.

January 14, 2021
Syringes

Dr. Makary to U.S. hospital leadership: ‘Let’s stop arguing and be pragmatic’ about COVID immunization

When it comes to administering COVID-19 vaccinations to the people most in need of immunization, hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are botching the operation.

January 13, 2021
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College campuses both COVID superspreaders and COVID busters

Of 30 nationally representative college campuses in the U.S., 17 had COVID-19 outbreaks that spread to neighboring communities as classes resumed for the fall.

January 13, 2021
Handshake

Hospital M&A experts: COVID-19 ‘will be a catalyst in reshaping U.S. healthcare for years to come’

The COVID crisis has shushed but not silenced hospitals’ talks on mergers and acquisitions in 2020.

January 11, 2021
Hospitalized

10 things U.S. healthcare should do ASAP for COVID patients, families and caregivers

Two prominent palliative care specialists are calling on the nation’s healthcare influencers to rethink restrictive visitation policies and scattershot communication practices. 

January 11, 2021
Covid airport crowd

Unknowingly infected individuals may be spreading COVID as widely as those who’ve tested positive

CDC researchers are estimating that asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers account for at least half of all community transmissions. This includes carriers who never develop symptoms as well as those who later do.

January 8, 2021
Physician Angel

Dr. Makary: ‘Just because you can get the vaccine doesn’t mean you should’

Among the many Americans refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when their turn comes up is a prominent surgeon who’s also a professional medical communicator and a Johns Hopkins public-health professor.

January 7, 2021
Skeptical

More than 30% of 5K surveyed intend to forego COVID vaccination

It’s not inconvenience or expectations of long waits that are prompting the deliberated refusals.

January 6, 2021

Around the web

This week Washington took a major step toward nailing down a solid game plan on federal AI spending for everything outside of defense.

The recall includes specific lots of five different medical devices used to treat stroke and other neurovascular diseases.

The agency is urging healthcare providers to transition away from these devices and seek out alternatives. It is even working with other manufacturers to try and get similar products on the market as quickly as possible. 

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