Conservative Approach to Inpatient BP Spikes May Be Safer Oral, IV antihypertensives alike associated with worse outcomes Dec 28, 2020
Rising Out-of-Pocket Costs for Neurology Visits, Diagnostic Tests Neurologist distribution varies widely, as does involvement in patient care Dec 28, 2020
How Do We Inject Confidence Into Vaccine Hesitant Americans? "We need to really up our game in terms of communicating," says Peter Hotez, MD, PhD Dec 23, 2020 podcast
Vascular Surgeon Pleads Guilty in Blood Vessel Scam Physician performed unnecessary procedures and faked thousands of insurance claims, feds say Dec 22, 2020
Spinal Benefits Seen With Cosentyx in PsA First trial to evaluate response of axial symptoms in psoriatic arthritis to biologic treatment Dec 22, 2020
Altered Mental State Tied to COVID-19 Mortality In-hospital deaths higher, even when pulmonary problems were not severe Dec 21, 2020
House Dems, GOP Agree: Sacklers, Purdue Pharma 'Sickening' "I'm not sure I'm aware of any family in America that's more evil than yours" Dec 17, 2020
New Valve Disease Guideline: Rethinking TAVR vs SAVR, MitraClip Indications PARTNER 3, Evolut Low Risk, COAPT trials make their mark Dec 17, 2020
'We Want Them Infected'; Extra Vax Doses; Tom Cruise, Distancing Enforcer A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine Dec 17, 2020
Trazodone-Sildenafil Mix-Up; Ibogaine Minus Hallucinations; Facebook Flags Distress News and commentary from the psychiatry world Dec 16, 2020
FDA Panel Backs Entresto, Spironolactone for Broader HF Use But committee stops short of advocating categorical approval for HFpEF Dec 16, 2020
Are Old Vaccines Helpful Against COVID-19? They rev the innate immune response, which appears to play a key role in fighting COVID-19 Dec 16, 2020
FDA Review Gives Rosy Outlook for What Could Be First HFpEF Drugs Advisory committee weigh unusual moves for Entresto and spironolactone Dec 14, 2020
High-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients Can Wait 6 Months for Surgery: Study Can be considered low priority procedure during COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say Dec 08, 2020
Chemotherapy Improved TNBC Survival in Older Women Benefits noted in both node-negative and -positive disease, as well as for those with a comorbidity score greater than 0 Dec 08, 2020
Three-Drug Regimen Reduces Myeloma Treatment Burden Efficacy maintained with addition of SQ daratumumab to pomalidomide, dexamethasone Dec 04, 2020
Should Docs Who Had COVID Still Get the Vaccine? Healthcare workers consider giving up their spot in line in light of limited supply Dec 03, 2020
Want to Know More About mRNA Before Your COVID Jab? A primer on the history, scope, and safety of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics Dec 03, 2020
2021 Medicare Fee Schedule Includes 10.2% Cut in Conversion Factor Cognitive specialties will see increases while radiologists, pathologists get pay cuts Dec 02, 2020
FDA OKs 'Game Changer' Radiotracer for Prostate Cancer PET imaging drug detected metastasis at initial diagnosis, outperformed standard for PSA recurrence Dec 01, 2020
Colchicine Approval Took a Huge Toll on CMS As centuries-old drug is explored for COVID-19, study details the price of approval Nov 30, 2020
Docs Can Prescribe Opioids Via Telemedicine, for Now CMS will eventually revisit emergency guidance Nov 29, 2020
Renewed Concerns About Finasteride and Mental Health Database study links popular alopecia treatment with increased risks of suicidality, depression Nov 27, 2020
Nursing Homes Fined for COVID Infection Control Lapses Industry representatives argue penalties are counterproductive Nov 25, 2020
Doc Gets 5 Years for Fraud; Vaccine-Hesitant Docs & Nurses; Lysol Under the Lid This past week in healthcare investigations Nov 25, 2020
Will Vascepa Train Roll Past Negative Omega-3 Results? STRENGTH, OMEMI temper enthusiasm but may not change much Nov 24, 2020
ACIP: HCPs, Nursing Home Residents May Get COVID Vax First Essential workers would come next, as committee debates proposed distribution strategy Nov 23, 2020
COVID's Heart Complications Modest in Large Registry Obese and minority groups at higher risk, though, analyses affirm Nov 18, 2020
AHA: Highlighting Effective 'Real-World' Heart Tx Strategies Studies on overcoming GDMT underuse, improving self-care education, creating new settings for care delivery Nov 17, 2020
Post-Surgery Monitoring Finds Afib in Discharged Patients About 20% of patients had episodes recorded on devices, study showed Nov 17, 2020
California Medical Board to Revise Dreaded Death Certificate Project 2019 death data suggest frightful consequence: doubling of fatal overdoses versus earlier years Nov 17, 2020
Sotagliflozin Prevents Heart Events in Acute HF, Chronic Kidney Disease Two trials show some tantalizing signals for HFpEF and stroke Nov 17, 2020
Novel Screening Approach Promising for Silent CAD More than 40% of healthy Swedish participants still had subclinical coronary artery disease Nov 16, 2020
VITAL-AF, mSToPS: Mixed Results in Afib Screening A signal that screening by continuous ECG monitoring leads to better outcomes Nov 16, 2020
Skip Rhythm Drugs, Go Straight to Cryoablation for Afib Two trials support shift into first-line strategy Nov 16, 2020
ANGPTL3 Blocker Halves LDL in High-Risk Group Evinacumab worked in patients refractory to statins, PCSK9 inhibitors Nov 16, 2020
