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Bad sleep made woman's eyelids so floppy they flipped inside out, got stuck https://arstechni.ca/KAR9 #obstructivesleepapnea #floppyeyelidsyndrome #eyelids #Health #sleep #NEJM #eye

Bad sleep made woman's eyelids so floppy they flipped inside out, got stuck

Never underestimate the value of a good night's sleep.

Ars Technica

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a6tole Oct 30

Finally, my warmest thanks to the CRICS-TriggerSep Scientific Board for their crucial role in designing and conducting this trial.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2502136

#EVERDAC #CriticalCare #ESICM2025 #NEJM #ICU #Research #CRICSTriggerSep

Deferring Arterial Catheterization in Critically Ill Patients with Shock | NEJM

In patients with shock, whether noninvasive blood-pressure monitoring is an effective alternative to the recommended use of an arterial catheter is uncertain. In this multicenter, open-label, nonin...

The New England Journal of Medicine

Science News Sep 30

Apixaban for Extended Treatment of Provoked Venous Thromboembolism. #NEJM "Low-intensity therapy with apixaban for 12 months resulted in a lower risk of symptomatic recurrent VTE than placebo, with a low risk of major bleeding." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Science News Sep 21, 2025

Medical Imaging and Pediatric and Adolescent Hematologic Cancer Risk. #nejm "Our study suggests an association between exposure to radiation from medical imaging and a small but significantly increased risk of hematologic cancer among children and adolescents." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Medical Imaging and Pediatric ...

Science News Sep 20, 2025

In adults with obesity, 72-week treatment with orforglipron led to significantly greater reductions in body weight than placebo; the adverse-event profile was consistent with that of other GLP-1 receptor agonists. #NEJM www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Orforglipron, an Oral Small-Mo...

Orforglipron, an Oral Small-Molecule GLP-1 Receptor Agonist for Obesity Treatment | NEJM

Orforglipron, a small-molecule, nonpeptide oral glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, is being investigated as a treatment for obesity. In this phase 3, multinational, randomized, doubl...

The New England Journal of Medicine

Science News Sep 11, 2025

Marburg Virus Disease in Rwanda, 2024 — Public Health and Clinical Responses. #NEJM Open Access www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Science News Aug 26, 2025

In resectable lung cancer, neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy improved 5-year overall survival, with no lung cancer deaths reported at 5 years in patients with a pathological complete response. #NEJM www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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@hugoestr los habituales que me faltan de esta semana para estar al día:
#EnGuàrdia
#MacBreakWeekly
#WeirdestThing
#NEJM this week
#LateShow with #StephenColbert
#LeyendasLegendarias
#StarTrek’s #MissionLog
#BeyondTheShadows
#Ted’s #RadioHour
#Criminal
#TheIncomparable
#FillingTheSink &
#MacPowerUsers

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petersuber Jul 5, 2025

Update. Three past editors of the New England Journal of Medicine (#NEJM) answer the attack on their journal from #RFKJr.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/30/rfk-jr-medical-journals-nejm-jama-lancet-editors-respond-medical-journals-ethics/
(#paywalled)

"Kennedy claimed that one of us (Angell) said, 'We are no longer a science journal, we are a vessel for pharmaceutical propaganda.' In fact, what Angell said in a 2009 article was that 'it is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published,' due to researchers’ financial ties with pharmaceutical companies."

The editors also point out that the three journals named by Kennedy happen to have published editorials criticizing the #Trump admin assault of science.

#DefendResearch #Medicine #Pharma #ScholComm #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics