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There was no higher risk of heart attack for recipients of the two-dose hepatitis B cytosine phosphoguanine adjuvant vaccine (Heplisav-B) compared to the three-dose hepatitis B vaccine with an aluminum hydroxide adjuvant (Engerix-B), a prospective study found. Among nearly 70,000 adults who received at least one hepatitis B vaccine dose, type 1 acute myocardial infarctions …

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Early Saturday morning, my home landline started ringing and the scary mechanical voice that translates caller ID told me it was my pharmacy benefits manager calling. I picked up the phone, and a polite electronic voice told me that they were unable to ship one of my medicines to me since they had been unable …

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Healthcare workers are alarmed by the conviction of former Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught, who now faces prison time over a medical error. “We could all and probably have been close to this situation because we’re continuously stretched too thin,” Kelsey Fassold, RN, an ICU nurse, said in a LinkedIn post. “We try so hard to …

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Men taking metformin were more likely to have offspring with birth defects, a Danish study found. Newborns with fathers who took metformin during the development of fertilizing sperm had a 40% higher frequency of birth defects compared with newborns whose fathers used insulin (adjusted OR 1.40, 95% CI 1.08-1.82), reported Maarten J. Wensink, MD, PhD, …

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