Medscape Medical News

• In Sickness and in Health: Spouses Can Share Cardiac Event Risk A married person's CV history may predict future cardiac events in the spouse, possibly because the two tend to share lifestyle risk factors. But the effect wasn't seen for both men and women.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• No Link Between Childhood Vaccinations and Allergies or Asthma Analyses of published data showed no connection between childhood allergies and vaccinations.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• Vaccine Breakthrough Cases Rising With Delta: Here's What That Means Even though a small percentage of vaccinated people may still be infected with the coronavirus, experts say it's not unexpected and cases are generally mild.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• The Robot Comes to Mastectomy, But Cancer Outcomes Data Not Attached A series of clinical trials of robotic mastectomy for the prevention and/or treatment of breast cancer have recently started in the US, but oncologic outcomes and randomized trial designs are not in the mix.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• Statins Again Linked to Lower COVID-19 Mortality Although it's observational, "I would say this is the most reliable study on statins in COVID-19 to date, with the results adjusted for many confounders, including socioeconomic factors...."
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• Best Vacations for Doctors Ready to Travel: Where To Go? People now want to travel, but they also want to stay safe. Medscape offers tips for safe travel and recommends some top spots.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• Dapagliflozin Safe, Protective in Advanced Kidney Disease 'For clinicians, this is now the absolute reassurance that we do not have to stop an SGLT2 inhibitor' in patients with advanced kidney disease, said Dr Chantal Mathieu, about the DAPA-CKD trial.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• Face Mask-Related Injuries Rose Dramatically in 2020 Dermatitis was the most common mask-related injury treated last year.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• SPD 2021 Autoinflammatory Diseases 'Not So Rare After All,' Expert Says The median time to diagnosis has been estimated to be between 2.5 and 5 years.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• CLARIFY Confirms Meds, Watchful Waiting in Angina, Stable CAD Few cardiovascular events and favorable evolution of angina in most patients allows for a watchful waiting strategy before failure of medical management is declared, the authors say.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• How Intranasal COVID Vaccines Could Be 'Holy Grail' of Vaccination Experts evaluate some advantages and caveats regarding seven intranasal COVID-19 vaccines in development.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• Tornado Docs: Med School Built in Ruins Has First Graduates Ten years ago, a deadly tornado in Joplin, Missouri, destroyed a hospital. The med school that was built on that site just graduated its first class. Some graduates will stay nearby and help to keep rebuilding.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• Strong Support for Causal Role of Cannabis in Schizophrenia The long-observed association between cannabis use and schizophrenia is likely partially causal in nature, but some are less convinced.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• More Evidence Ties Hearing Loss to Increased Dementia Risk An impaired ability to hear speech in a noisy environment is linked to a significantly increased risk for subsequent dementia, a large population-based study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2021
• No Link Between Childhood Vaccinations and Allergies or Asthma Analyses of published data showed no connection between childhood allergies and vaccinations.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2021
• IAS 2021 Younger Adults With HIV Have Higher CVD Risk but Low ASCVD Scores Even without traditional cardiovascular risks factors such as smoking and obesity, people under 40 with HIV have substantially higher CVD risks than the general public.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2021
• Antipsychotic Safe, Effective for Dementia-Related Psychosis Pimavanserin sustains a significant reduction of psychosis relapse in patients with dementia -- and without harmful side effects, new longer-term data from the phase 3 HARMONY trial suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2021
• CDC Panel Updates Info on Rare Side Effect After J&J Vaccine The ACIP discussed slightly higher rates of the rare side effect of Guillain-Barré syndrome after the J&J vaccine, and presented reaffirming evidence of the vaccine's effectiveness against variants.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2021
• FM Diversity Has Increased, but More Physicians of Color Needed Family medicine has evolved in many ways since its inception in 1969, especially in terms of the people who are practicing it, but it still needs more diversity to represent the faces of patients.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2021
• Hematologic Cancer Increases Risk for Delivery Complications The risk of in-hospital complications and poor birth outcomes were greater in pregnant women with current or historical cancer diagnoses, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2021