Could Statins Do More Than Lower Cholesterol in Patients With COVID-19? – JAMA
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Long Working Hours and Risk of Recurrent Coronary Events – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text) Commentaries: Working long hours may increase odds of second heart attack – American College of Cardiology AND Recurrent CHD Risk Up With Long Working Hours After First MI – HealthDay AND […]
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Successful treatment of vaccine-induced prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia (VIPIT) – Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis Commentary: COVID-19 vaccination: Thrombosis can be prevented by prompt treatment, researchers report – Medical University of Vienna
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Neurologic, psychiatric conditions common in COVID-19 – CIDRAP Meta-analysis 1: Neurology and neuropsychiatry of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the early literature reveals frequent CNS manifestations and key emerging narratives – Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry Meta-analysis 2: Central and peripheral nervous system involvement by COVID-19: a systematic review of the pathophysiology, […]
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Covid 19: How harm reduction advocates and the tobacco industry capitalised on the pandemic to promote nicotine – The BMJ Commentaries: Researchers report how the tobacco and e-cigarette industry capitalized on COVID-19 to promote smoking – News Medical AND Investigation discredits studies suggesting lower COVID-19 risk for smokers
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Neutralising antibody activity against SARS-CoV-2 VOCs B.1.617.2 and B.1.351 (Beta) by BNT162b2 vaccination – The Lancet Commentary: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine recipients have lower antibody levels targeting the Delta variant – The Francis Crick Institute Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more) “Immune escape” in #DeltaVariant. That’s the latest finding – that #B16172 is as […]
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Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses have taught scientists – Nature See also: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations – Our World in Data Related commentary on Twitter • To administer the first half a billion vaccines took 113 days• The second half a billion 30 days• The third half a billion 23 days• […]
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WHO approval of Chinese CoronaVac COVID vaccine will be crucial to curbing pandemic – Nature Related: WHO validates Sinovac-CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use and issues interim policy recommendations. AND Brazilian town experiment shows mass vaccination can wipe out COVID-19.
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Therapeutic versus prophylactic anticoagulation for patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 and elevated D-dimer concentration (ACTION): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled trial – The Lancet Related: #ACC21 – [Not published yet] RCT: Among hospitalized patients with Covid-19 and elevated D-Dimer, therapeutic anticoagulation with Rivaroxaban 20 mg was not associated with improved outcomes and resulted in […]
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ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: An Update – Journal of Clinical Medicine
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