Surge in Kids' COVID-Linked Inflammatory Condition: MIS-C increase was expected, but diagnosis and treatment have improved Nemours duPont Hosp Boston Children's medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

medpagetoday.com/nephrology/esr… U.S. Renal Care #NephsWhoLead Texas Children's

A JAMA podcast episode billed as "structural racism for skeptics" hit all the wrong notes with Black physicians and people of color on Twitter. By Crystal Phend. Shirlene Dr. Aletha Maybank Nancy Baxter MD PhD Ruth Carlos bit.ly/3rrYNmM

DOAC After Heart Valve Procedure? medpagetoday.com/cardiology/chf… #cardiotwitter #cardiology MedPage Today Crystal Phend Ankur Kalra

Update on JAMA systemic racism podcast: it's been taken down and host has resigned AMA Dr. Aletha Maybank Nancy Baxter MD PhD medpagetoday.com/publichealthpo…

Maybe it's not about what caused the first stroke...look longer for Afib even if the cause seems clear says Dr. Lee Schwamm at #ISC21 Mass General Brigham MGH Neurology AHAMeetings American Heart Association AHA Science medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverag…

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine transplanted both lungs from a #COVID19 survivor into a man whose own lungs had been irreversibly ravaged by the disease. By John Gever. W/comment form Ankit Bharat, MD FACS. #surgerytwitter #IDtwitter bit.ly/3vHcWPq

Study finds fewer than 20% of solid organ transplant patients mounted detectable antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 following a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. MedPage Today 's Marty Makary MD, MPH asks author Dorry Segev about the findings and implications of his study. medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

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Check out the latest episode of the Anamnesis podcast, my first as producer. Great "Eureka" stories from Dr. Deborah Serani Prof. Kevin J. Tracey, MD Scott Zeller medpagetoday.com/podcasts/anamn… MedPage Today Northwell Health

For low-risk breast cancer patients getting potentially cardiotoxic treatment, candesartan's short-term protection of cardiac function faded longer term in the PRADA trial from #ACC21. MedPage Today Crystal Phend: bit.ly/3tTO4Sz #CardioOnc

Younger teens may not be as likely to have severe #COVID19 as adults, but their hospitalization rates spiked early this year and left a large proportion in critical care, reported in MMWR. By Crystal Phend bit.ly/3gfVKd4

#COVID19 vaccine: Study on CVST "spells out what we've all been saying...The bottom line is the risk-benefit continues to be clearly in favor of being vaccinated." Mary Cushman 🫀🧠🩸 Behnood Bikdeli

Younger kids will need #CovidVaccine, FDA advisors agreed. But yesterday's panel was torn over how quickly -- relying on emergency use authorization vs waiting for data needed for full licensure MedPage Today MedPage Infectious Disease medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

Plasma transfusions from COVID-19-recovered patients didn't prevent progression of the same infection in high-risk adults outside the hospital setting, reported Clifton Callaway, MD, PhD, in NEJM. By Crystal Phend. #IDtwitter bit.ly/3z1QOAH

A web app helped people determine whether they should be on a statin with high concordance to physicians' determinations, reported Steven Nissen, MD, in JACC Journals. By Crystal Phend, MedPage Cardio. #cardiotwitter American College of Cardiology bit.ly/3nbWl4A

Hurricane Ida didn't become a full-fledged dialysis disaster in part due to the lessons from Hurricane Katrina, but there are bigger challenges ahead. W/comment from Holly Kramer, MD, MPH. By Crystal Phend. bit.ly/3nvLhPZ

Adding new hypertensive to treatment may have greater effect on systolic #bloodpressure than maximizing dose. MedPage Today Crystal Phend: bit.ly/3FjQYa0