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Love and Mercy in Intensive Care

Love and Mercy in Intensive Care

“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories of clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher and Podchaser. The intensive care unit can be a traumatic place for patients, who are often heavily sedated, rendered …

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Home air purifiers may improve markers of cardiovascular health in people with COPD

Home air purifiers may improve markers of cardiovascular health in people with COPD

A six-month study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine finds that using portable home air purifiers can improve certain markers of cardiovascular health in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. People with COPD often suffer from shortness of breath, chest tightness and chronic cough. Cardiovascular diseases such as arrhythmias, heart failure, strokes and …

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