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Proposed Medicaid cuts would undermine financial well-being, increase preventable mortality
Medicaid cuts proposed by the U.S. House of Representatives' Budget Committee could lead to between 651 and 12,626 medically preventable deaths annually and increase the number of uninsured Americans by between 600,000 and 3.9 million, researchers calculated.
Desogestrel associated with small increase in risk of intracranial meningioma
Women who took desogestrel as their oral contraceptive for more than five years were at a heightened risk of meningioma, while levonorgestrel with or without estrogen was not associated with any increase in risk, a retrospective French study found.
MKSAP Quiz: Epistaxis after emergency therapeutic apheresis
A 74-year-old man is evaluated for epistaxis and oozing following emergency therapeutic apheresis for hyperviscosity syndrome in the setting of Waldenström macroglobulinemia. Daily therapeutic apheresis was begun. Following lab tests, what is the most likely cause of this patient's coagulopathy?
FIT screening for CRC before age 50 years associated with reduced mortality
Biennial screening with fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) starting at ages 40 to 49 years was associated with greater reductions in colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality and incidence than starting at age 50 years, a cohort study in Taiwan found.
Fecal transplant noninferior to vancomycin for first C. diff infection, trial finds
The Clostridioides difficile cure rate was statistically noninferior and numerically higher in patients randomized to fecal microbiota transplantation instead of vancomycin for an initial C. difficile infection, a small open-label trial in Norway found.
And the winner is …
I.M. Matters Weekly from ACP has tallied the voting from its latest cartoon contest, where readers are invited to match wits against their peers to provide the most original and amusing caption.