Final Physician Fee Schedule Rule Includes a Nearly 4% Payment Cut Will leave practices in "financial peril," says AMA president Nov 03, 2021
Improvements in Treatment-Resistant Depression With Esketamine Pooled data from randomized trials showed better scores on the PHQ-9 as well Nov 02, 2021
Migraine Drug Shows Benefit for Those With Comorbid Depression, Anxiety Real-world study of fremanezumab found that patients were able to reduce antidepressant use Nov 01, 2021
Guillain-Barre Risk Up Slightly After Shingrix Findings support FDA warning for recombinant zoster vaccine Nov 01, 2021
Michigan EDs See Jump in Cannabis-Related Neuropsychiatric Toxicity Community-based study reports "troublesome" data in state that legalized marijuana for adults Oct 30, 2021
Biden Announces Deal With Congress on Infrastructure Bill Medicare hearing benefits make the cut, but dental, vision, drug-pricing provisions are left out Oct 28, 2021
Midlife Women With Declining Eyesight: Are They Also Looking at Future Depression? Varying degrees of visual impairment tied to depressive symptoms Oct 27, 2021
No Love for PRP in Ankle Osteoarthritis Trial Dutch researchers throw cold water on popular therapy Oct 26, 2021
Too Many TAVR Centers Are Clustered Around Well-to-Do Communities More centers not the answer to geographic, socioeconomic disparities in access? Oct 22, 2021
How Should Patients With Autoimmune Diseases Approach COVID Vaccination? Mixed messaging and a lack of tailored research leaves providers and patients in the dark Oct 22, 2021
Ho-Hum Oral Presentations on COPD Turn Into Fascinating Roundtable Here's why online meetings can be great Oct 22, 2021
CDC Panel Champions 'Mix and Match' Booster Strategy Unanimous vote for boosters in certain groups, without specifying which vaccine they should be Oct 21, 2021
No Benefit to Intensifying Diabetes Meds at Hospital Discharge Older adults discharged with intensified regimen had higher risk of severe hypoglycemia Oct 21, 2021
ACIP Streamlines Pneumococcal Vaccine Recs Also endorses recombinant zoster vaccine for immunocompromised adults Oct 20, 2021
Ivermectin for COVID-19 Linked to Severe Toxicity in Small Study Confusion, ataxia, seizures, hypotension -- and for some, ICU admission Oct 20, 2021
First Interchangeable Humira Biosimilar Approved Cyltezo nabs coveted "interchangeable" status for RA, inflammatory bowel disease, and more Oct 18, 2021
Want to Reduce 'Frequent Flyers' at Your Hospital? Try This Weekly meetings to discuss cases can help get patients out of the ED and into community care Oct 14, 2021
Medicaid Will Be a Bigger Target for Alternative Payment Models, CMS Official Says Health equity also will be a focus, says CMMI official Ellen Lukens Oct 13, 2021
Exposure to Certain Phthalates Tied to All-Cause, CV-Related Death Common chemicals in shampoo, cosmetics also linked with billions of dollars in lost productivity Oct 13, 2021
FDA Nudges Restaurants, Food Manufacturers to Cut Sodium Voluntary guidance aims to reduce Americans' sodium intake by 12% Oct 13, 2021
Spinal vs General Anesthesia in Hip Fracture Surgeries: It's a Draw Neither type led to better outcomes at 60 days, study finds Oct 12, 2021
Collateral Damage of COVID-19: Home Injuries, Suicides in Kids? Trends during a period when many kids were kept out of school Oct 10, 2021
Study: Kids Exposed to Harmful Plastics During Heart Surgery Are tubing and blood bags sources of trouble? Oct 09, 2021
Just How Many New Depression, Anxiety Cases Popped Up in 2020? Pandemic's impact on mental health worldwide hit women and young people especially hard Oct 08, 2021
Forteo Injection May Soon Face Competition From a Pill Same peptide formulated for oral administration passes phase II test Oct 07, 2021
Medicare Is Sticking With Mandatory Demonstration Models for Now But "we need to move away from having a model for every episode," says CMMI head Elizabeth Fowler Oct 06, 2021
Can the Death Rattle Be Silenced? Randomized trial says yes, but results may be challenging to put into practice Oct 05, 2021
Post-TAVR Pacemakers Not All Doom and Gloom A bit of reassurance from Swedish cohort study Oct 04, 2021
Diabetes Risk With Breastmilk, Antidepressants, Weight Loss A roundup of noteworthy research from the EASD 2021 meeting Oct 04, 2021
Supplements to Prevent Bone Breaks? VITAL Says Forget It Landmark trial throws more cold water on vitamin D, omega-3 pills Oct 03, 2021
Vaccine Could Be Shot in the Arm Against RSV in Older Adults CYPRESS proof-of-concept study shows high efficacy against acute illness Oct 03, 2021
Gender Differences Seen With CV Prevention in Diabetes Clues from post-hoc analysis of the REWIND trial Oct 01, 2021
Remote BP Monitoring Dips a Toe Into Post-Acute Care Hypotension emerges as a risk in pilot study Sep 30, 2021
Could a Bisphosphonate Prevent Type 2 Diabetes? Study finds association between alendronate use and future diabetes risk Sep 30, 2021
BP Care in Black Barbershops Successfully Taken Up in Nashville Los Angeles protocol adapted to a different city amid the COVID pandemic Sep 29, 2021
Healthy Lifestyle Keeps Dementia at Bay in Patients With Diabetes Maintaining control of risk factors neutralized excess dementia risk Sep 29, 2021
More Evidence for Taking Blood Pressure Meds Before Bed? Circadian BP patterns linked to long-term survival in people with diabetes Sep 29, 2021
Proxy Measure of Insulin Resistance Predictive of Stroke Study found relationship between estimated glucose disposal rate and first-time stroke Sep 29, 2021
