Trending Clinical Topics

• Trending Clinical Topic: Influenza Although coronavirus is grabbing headlines, concerns about the flu may be even more significant. News about vaccination helped to make influenza this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, February 14, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Sepsis News about monitoring technology, a study on risk factors for secondary infection, and insights on drugs used to treat sepsis made that condition this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, February 07, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Cannabis Increased use of a particular form of cannabis and news about potentially serious heart conditions associated with the drug helped to make it this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, January 31, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Weight Loss New statistics about the obesity epidemic, information on dietary approaches, and a warning about cancer risk associated with a medication made weight loss this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, January 24, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Ovarian Cancer Evidence that may help eliminate a long-suspected cause, a decline in overall US cancer deaths, and updated guidelines drove interest in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, January 17, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Schizophrenia A new treatment, a study on genetic links between psychiatric disorders, insights from a blockbuster movie, and a connection to pets helped make schizophrenia this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, January 10, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Aspirin A possible association between aspirin use and reduced mortality, research into migraine treatment, and a warning about combined therapy made aspirin this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, January 03, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Metformin Concern about possible contamination with a carcinogen made metformin this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, December 20, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: Asthma News about pregnancy-related issues, corticosteroid use, and greenhouse gas emissions increased searches for information about asthma, making it this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, December 13, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: Dengue A newly reported means of transmission and concerns about increased disease activity made dengue this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, December 06, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: ISCHEMIA Trial Study findings with the potential to significantly change common practices in cardiology inspired this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, November 29, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: Hypothyroidism Recent studies regarding treatment-related concerns, plus a potential new strategy for patient care, made hypothyroidism this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, November 22, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: Neurodegenerative Disease From a new screening strategy to populations at risk, various new studies about dementia helped make neurocognitive disease this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, November 15, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: Melanoma An encouraging change in prognosis, as well as studies on various associations, helped make melanoma this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, November 08, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: Warfarin The results of two new studies involving treatment for separate conditions helped make this drug the top trending clinical topic for this week.
  Medscape, November 01, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: EVALI For the second time in 2 months, information regarding serious illnesses associated with vaping has resulted in a top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, October 25, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: Legionnaires Disease Multiple deaths associated with recent outbreaks resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, October 18, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: EEE Virus Ongoing concerns about this rare but deadly condition made eastern equine encephalitis the week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, October 11, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: Tinnitus A new treatment option and draft guidelines for assessment and management made tinnitus this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, October 04, 2019
• Trending Clinical Topic: Vegan Diet News about how certain changes in eating habits affect health led to this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, September 27, 2019