Daily Briefing for November 4, 2026
Physician in the Loop · Nov 4, 2026 · 5:24
Physician in the Loop · Nov 4, 2026 · 5:24
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Asthma guideline ranks steroid rescue inhalers above albuterol alone
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The American Thoracic Society on Nov. 3 strongly recommended steroid-containing rescue inhalers over short-acting beta-agonists alone for adolescents and adults with mild asthma, in a new guideline.
The same day, the Food and Drug Administration warned that holes can form in some ButterflyBVM bag-valve-mask resuscitators and told users to remove the worst-affected lots. A National Institutes of Health cohort found that half of adults with long COVID at one year improved meaningfully by three years, and a Columbia study of nearly 1 million portal replies found that Epic's AI drafts did not shorten clinicians' overall response times.
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