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Physicians spend almost six hours per day in the electronic health record

Doctors Spend Almost Six Hours Per Day on EHR Tasks

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Clerical and administrative tasks including order entry, billing account for almost half of hours
Twenty-seven viruses can be found in human semen

Twenty-Seven Viruses Can Be Found in Human Semen

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Many viruses cause chronic or latent infection, and some cause acute infection, such as Zika and Ebola
An automated molecular assay can detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis with resistance to drugs directly from sputum specimens

Assay Can ID M. tuberculosis Resistance Mutations

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Assay detects mutations associated with resistance to isoniazid, fluoroquinolones, aminoglycosides
Certain aspects of empathy improve during medical student training

Some Aspects of Empathy Improve During Medical Training

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Decrease in empathy as assessed by JSPE, but overall cognitive empathy improved on the QCAE
Does being a physician carry a moral obligation to respond to calls for medical assistance on airplanes? That is the topic of an article published in the Sept. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Are Physicians Obligated to Help on Planes?

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One administrative physician explains his sense of obligation to help
A specific subset of tissue factor-expressing monocytes persist after virological suppression and trigger the coagulation cascade by activating factor X in HIV

In HIV, Tissue Factor-Expressing Monocytes Trigger Coagulation

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The anticoagulant Ixolaris blocked functional activity of tissue factor in vitro and in vivo
Zika virus is an oncolytic virus that preferentially targets glioblastoma stem cells

Zika Virus Preferentially Targets Glioblastoma Stem Cells

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ZIKV preferentially infects, kills GSCs relative to differentiated tumor progeny, normal neuronal cells
Complete blood cell count parameters at commonly used or optimal thresholds do not offer high accuracy in identifying invasive bacterial infections in febrile infants (≤60 days of age)

‘Modest at Best’ Discriminatory Ability for CBC Test in Infants

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Findings among febrile infants (≤60 days) with invasive bacterial infections
Bacterial infections that have sickened 39 people in seven states have been linked to puppies sold through Petland

CDC: Human Campylobacter Linked to Pet Store Puppies

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Campylobacter can spread through contact with dog feces
From 2009-2010 to 2013-2014 there was a decrease in the prevalence of vaccine-type human papillomavirus among unvaccinated young women aged 18 to 26 years

Vaccine-Type HPV Rates Down for Unvaccinated Young Women

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Significant decrease among unvaccinated women aged 18 to 26 years from 2009-2010 to 2013-2014