LAURA H. CYPHERS

The remote transmission of blood pressure data from patients to their clinicians, or remote patient monitoring (RPM), improved several measures of hypertension management and also increased health care spending, according to data from 192 practices that used RPM for many of their patients with high blood pressure (“high-RPM” facilities) and 942 practices with little RPM use.
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This Viewpoint explains the genetic association between Alzheimer disease and Down syndrome and the negative impact of excluding people with Down syndrome from clinical trials on treatment for Alzheimer disease.
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This Medical News article discusses late-breaking science and other clinical highlights from the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions meeting.
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An patient with a history of bullous pemphigoid treated with oral prednisolone presented with multiple round, dark brown to violaceous-colored firm nodules on the right leg and 2 nodular masses with hemorrhagic crusts on the right foot. Complete blood cell count and creatinine and liver function test results were normal, and results of HIV antibody testing were negative. What is the diagnosis and what would you do next?
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This study assesses whether learning gains associated with full-day preschool were sustained through third grade by analyzing achievement scores and need for remediation.
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This Viewpoint reviews the state of alternative payment models (APMs) applied to pregnancy and proposes clinical and policy objectives that could guide model design going forward.
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This Viewpoint discusses the use of privacy-preserving record linkage, a token-based record linkage system, as a promising avenue for building a data infrastructure system that bridges isolated data.
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This Viewpoint argues for an expansion of paid family leave policies to include eldercare as a way to support the well-being of faculty members, retain physicians, and promote gender equity in academic medicine.
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For decades, concerns have been raised about the clinical trials enterprise in the US, from their high costs and lengthy time courses to their narrowness in scope and lack of representativeness. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, coordinated testing and evaluation was at a premium. Although clinical trial research networks were quickly established in the UK, Australia, and elsewhere, any success at doing the same in the US seemed unlikely.
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This randomized study examines the effect of higher-dose fluvoxamine on time to sustained recovery from mild to moderate COVID-19 or progression to severe disease in nonhospitalized adults.
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