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Fear of contracting COVID-19 would keep more than half of Hispanics and Blacks experiencing heart attack/stroke symptoms from going to a hospital.

US confirmed cases of COVID-19 number nearly 4.5 million; global cases have surpassed 17 million. We summarize more of today's data from the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 interactive map.

Patients with hypertension are complex and pose a real challenge to primary care. Brigham and Women's cardiologist Dr Naomi Fisher offers history and highlights.

Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 are approaching 16.5 million. We summarize more of today's global and US data from the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 interactive map.

COVID-19 vaccine hopeful mRNA-1273 will be administered to 30,000 trial volunteers at 89 US research sites.

All makers of opioid and opioid use disorder medications must revise labels to recommend discussion and coprescribing of naloxone.

Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 have surpassed 16 million. We summarize more of today's global and US data from the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 interactive map.

Approval was awarded to AstraZeneca for an inhaled, fixed-dose combination of budesonide/glycopyrrolate/formoterol fumarate.

Preventive cardiology and lipid specialist Seth J. Baum, MD, answers questions about the state of preventive cardiology in the midst of COVID-19.

JAMA: After recovery from COVID-19, a majority of patients reported persistence of at least 1 symptom; more than half reported ≥3 symptoms.

Galt Pharmaceuticals announced FDA approval of Orphengesic Forte (orphenadrine citrate, aspirin, caffeine), to treat acute mild to moderate pain.

Coronavirus vaccine candidate from Oxford University and AstraZeneca shows robust humoral and cellular response; phase 2/3 trials underway.

Hand sanitizer products contaminated with methyl alcohol have caused serious adverse events, including hospitalization, blindness, and death.

Medicare beneficiary use of telehealth services reached nearly 9 million as COVID-19 shut down on-site visits. Will the options be permanent?

VIDEO: Obesity is a chronic, relapsing disease that threatens to neutralize, even reverse, years of progress in reducing CVD-related death. Ted Kyle, RPh, explores.

Parental doubts about efficacy drive flu-shot hesitancy, according to a new survey, and impact routine vaccination rates, as well.

Cardiothoracic surgeon Brian Lima, MD spent weeks in a large metropolitan New York City ICU treating the sickest patients with COVID-19. He shares details.

Effective ways to limit SARS-CoV2 spread are reasonably well understood, say US adults, and the science can be trusted, even though advice keeps changing.

The EUA is the third for diagnostics designed for detection and differentiation of the viruses that cause COVID-19 and the flu.

Jorge Plutzky, MD, director of the Preventive Cardiology Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, discusses the insidious role diabetes plays in cardiovascular disease.

Blood type and susceptibility to COVID-19 and severe infection are being linked in an increasing number of studies, including a recent genomewide association study published in NEJM.

A letter to the World Health Organization signed by more than 200 scientists from around the world strongly urges the agency to acknowledge airborne transmission of the SARS-Cov2 virus.

Data on physician malpractice rates are broken down across type of practice ownership, gender, age, geographic region, community type, and more.

Home blood pressure monitoring, performed accurately, is the key to data that will guide optimal hypertension treatment. Dr Naomi Fisher talks with Patient Care.

Ketamine used in patients with treatment-resistant depression operates via serotonin 1B receptors by way of a previously unknown mechanism of action, according to a new study from Sweden.

Why are people with obesity at high risk for severe COVID-19 infection? Dr Caroline Apovian explains that immunity in this population has begun to senesce.

The NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel published guidelines on use of the corticosteroid dexamethasone in patients severely ill with COVID-19.

Metabolic and bariatric surgery are deemed "elective," along with cosmetic procedures, and still widely postponed. "Resume these life-saving procedures, now," says the ASMBS.

COVID-19 patients admitted to ICU found 10 times more likely than other hospitalized COVID-19 patients to experience cardiac arrhythmias in a new study.

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass remains the gold standard of bariatric surgery. Obesity and nutrition expert Caroline Apovian, MD, explains why and how it differs from the 3 other types of weight loss surgery.