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Why doesn’t the U.S. have more Black midwives?

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The number of credentialed midwives — including both certified nurse-midwives, who can attend births in hospital settings, and a minority of certified midwives, who don’t hold a nursing degree — in the U.S. more than doubled from 1991 and 2012 and has continued to grow steadily in the years since.

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340B program continues to drive shift in care to more expensive hospital settings

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In this case, the Berkeley Research Group (BRG) found that nearly 36% of all Medicare Part B therapy sales occurred at 340B hospitals in 2021 , up nearly 17 percentage points since 2012, meaning care is moving from physician offices and non-340B hospitals to 340B hospitals.

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STAT+: Former FDA official lays out how to keep patients safe from risky medical devices

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” That train of thought — calculating risks, eliminating threats — eventually led her to a job with the Food and Drug Administration in 2012 as a public health analyst. Critical information, like unique device identifiers that help hospitals keep track of implants in patients, was often missing.

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STAT+: ‘It’s like Groundhog Day’: The cancer drug shortage isn’t new — and neither are the solutions

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“Oftentimes we can cure kids of their disease, but we can’t do that without the drugs,” said Unguru, a pediatric hematologist oncologist at Children’s Hospital at Sinai in Baltimore and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “It’s just so, so maddening.”

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SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Dangerous Cause of Abdominal Pain

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

2012 Oct;55(7):930-9. Epub 2012 Jun 19. Author information Ho Tai-Hung, MD Resident Physician Taipei Veterans General Hospital | The post SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Dangerous Cause of Abdominal Pain appeared first on ALiEM. Cheng NC, Yu YC, Tai HC, Hsueh PR, Chang SC, Lai SY, Yi WC, Fang CT. Clin Infect Dis. PMID: 22715175.

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SAEM Clinical Images Series: What’s Coming Out of Your Eye?

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A 32-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) from an outside hospital for further management of right eye pain and vision loss sustained after he was struck by a metal wire while at work. 2012 Feb;26(2):212-7. American Academy of Ophthalmology. 2023, March 23). Eye (Lond).

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SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Lethal Combination of Skin and Lung Findings

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Her hospital course was complicated by tachyarrhythmias requiring cardioversion, and Takostubo physiology. 2012 Jul;51(7):1278-84. Epub 2012 Feb 29. This patient was admitted requiring 40 L HFNC, then two days later required intubation for severe ARDS and was placed on VV-ECMO the same day. Rheumatology (Oxford). PMID: 22378718.

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