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RSV, Flu Hospitalization Associated With Different Mortality Risks
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According to a study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, compared with older adults hospitalized with influenza B, individuals hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection have a greater risk of mortality within 90 days. The results revealed that the presence of at least one comorbidity was more significant among patients with RSV than among those with influenza. Read more.
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Most Medicare Users Do Not Review Part D Plans
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Medicare Part D beneficiaries often do not have the best plan for their needs because they do not regularly review and would not know how to change plans even if they realized it was inadequate. That is according to a new report in Health Affairs Scholar. Find out what the suggested solutions to this problem are.
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Long-Term CV Drugs Appear to Lower Dementia Risk
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Users of some common cardiovascular (CV) drugs over the long term seem to lower their risks of developing dementia later in life, according to a new study. Those medications include antihypertensives, diuretics, lipid-lowering drugs, and oral anticoagulants. Find out why antiplatelets seem to have the opposite effect.
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Azurity Announces FDA Approval of Danziten Tablets
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Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced that the FDA has approved Danziten, the first and only nilotinib with no mealtime restrictions indicated for adult patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome positive chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase and adult patients with chronic phase and acute phase resistant or intolerant to prior therapy that included imatinib. Read more.
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