Trending Clinical Topics

• Trending Clinical Topic: Right-sided Colon Cancer Varied news about colon cancer, including concerning results from a biopsy study, resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, January 22, 2021
• Trending Clinical Topic: Folic Acid Although vaccinations and the spread of COVID-19 mutations have dominated headlines, misinformation regarding a commonly used supplement led to this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, January 15, 2021
• Trending Clinical Topic: COVID-19 Pandemic As 2020 ends amid another wave of infections, vaccine development and approval have provided hope for an end to the crisis, making the COVID-19 pandemic our final trending clinical topic of the year.
  Medscape, December 24, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Breast Cancer Data presented at the 2020 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, along with other insights into treatment-related concerns, increased interest in breast cancer this week.
  Medscape, December 18, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Fertility From the potential effects of COVID-19 on sperm to pregnancy-related breast cancer concerns, varied news about fertility resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, December 11, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Antidepressant From potential roles in COVID-19 and dementia prevention to updates on efficacy for their intended target, various new findings made antidepressant this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, December 04, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Fish Oil Studies on the relationship between omega-3 fatty acids and cardiovascular health, presented at a virtual American Heart Association meeting, resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, November 27, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Parkinson's Disease A link to COVID-19 and new developments regarding diagnostic and treatment options made this condition the top trending clinical topic of the week.
  Medscape, November 20, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Autoantibodies New information about how the immune system behaves in patients with severe COVID-19 resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, November 13, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Vitamin D and COVID-19 Recent studies exploring its possible association with COVID-19 once again put vitamin D back in the spotlight.
  Medscape, November 06, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: COVID Syndromes New insights and developments related to a condition being called "long COVID" resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, October 30, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Insulin From recent data about new products to ongoing concerns about pricing, news about insulin was popular enough to push pandemic-related concerns from this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, October 23, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Herd Immunity As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on worldwide, discussions about what its end may look like brought attention back to the subject of herd immunity.
  Medscape, October 16, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Prone Positioning in COVID-19 New findings and ongoing discussion regarding the best way to position patients with severe COVID-19 resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, October 09, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: COVID-19 Transmission Continued debate about the most common ways SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, October 02, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Pregnancy and COVID-19 New findings regarding the frequency and severity of COVID-19 infection in pregnant women, as well as those who care for them, resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, September 25, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Cytokine Storm New insights into an immune system response in patients with COVID-19 resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, September 18, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Atrial Fibrillation New guidelines and research presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2020 made atrial fibrillation this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, September 11, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Long COVID Research into the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection and insights into the recovery period made "long COVID" this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, September 04, 2020
• Trending Clinical Topic: Metformin Questions about its potential role in COVID-19 and new studies investigating both benefits and potential adverse effects made metformin this week's top trending clinical topic.
  Medscape, August 28, 2020