Medscape Medical News

• AUA 2022 Sex Toys for Science Researchers at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles will investigate whether vibrators can improve sexual and physical health in women.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• AUA 2022 Most Men With Low-Risk Prostate Tumors Now Forgoing Treatment Acceptance of active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer hit a record high in 2021, although the US still lags internationally, new figures showed.
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2022
• AUA 2022 Value of Screening Urinalysis Prior to Office Procedures Questioned A new study found that routine urine testing did not reduce the risk of UTIs after office-based cytology.
  Medscape Medical News, May 14, 2022
• Lenabasum Improved Skin Symptoms, in Small Dermatomyositis Trial In the phase 2 trial, skin biopsies before and after treatment showed significant reductions in inflammatory cytokines relevant to dermatomyositis pathogenesis.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• ESOC 2022 Stroke in the Young: Cancer in Disguise? Young stroke patients have an increased risk of being diagnosed with a new cancer in the years following their stroke, a new study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• BSR 2022 Myositis Guidelines Aim to Standardize Adult and Pediatric Care These are the first guidelines on how to manage adult and pediatric patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet Improves Immune Function In patients with obesity, a very-low-calorie ketogenic diet induces significant weight loss and has positive immunomodulatory properties, according to accumulating evidence.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• ESOC 2022 Recurrent Stroke Risk High in AF, Even With Anticoagulants A new study has found dangerously high levels of stroke recurrence and death among patients who take DOAC or VKA therapy, which researchers say demonstrates an unmet medical need.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete? The white coat has been the traditional physician garb. But since the pandemic, more have been wearing scrubs or more casual clothing. What's best for physicians to wear?
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Cancer and COVID: What Can Increase Risk of Dying? A large meta-analysis suggests that younger age and lung and blood cancers, as well as treatment with chemotherapy, raise the risk for death from COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Diabetes Doubles Risk of Death From COVID-19; East-West Divide? 'These findings are interesting because they reveal that worse outcomes due to COVID-19 in people with diabetes can be reduced in the right setting,' says an expert.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• AACE 2022 First Fatty Liver Guidelines for Endocrinology, Primary Care Endocrinologists and primary care docs 'need to be the ones who are diagnosing and managing [non-alcoholic fatty liver disease] because there just aren't enough liver specialists to do that,' says author.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Radiotherapy for Brain Metastases: ASTRO Updates Guidelines The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued new recommendations on radiotherapy treatment in patients with brain metastases, which updates the last guidelines issued in 2012.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• From Delta to Omicron in 20 Days A Spanish healthcare worker who had received three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine was infected twice by the virus. She had the shortest known time between SARS-CoV-2 infections to date.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Nearly 234,000 Cancer Cases Predicted in Canada This Year Although overall cancer rates are declining in Canada, the number of cases and deaths continue to climb due to population growth and an aging population.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• DDW 2022 NAFLD in Lean Patients Linked to CVD Risk The link between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and higher risk of cardiovascular disease may extend beyond people who are overweight or living with obesity.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• New Data Support Electroconvulsive Therapy for Depression A retrospective cohort study provides evidence that the treatment can prevent suicide among patients with severe depression. Psychiatrists comment that ECT is used too infrequently.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Consider Cancer as a Trigger for Deep Vein Thrombosis Examination of a woman with paranoid schizophrenia and deep vein thrombosis revealed chondrosarcoma of the tibia.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Risk of Dying From New Cancer Higher in Young Cancer Survivors Adolescent and young adult cancer survivors are at an increased risk of developing and dying from a second primary cancer, highlighting the critical role of surveillance and survivorship care.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Clozapine and Cancer Risk: New Data Long-term treatment with clozapine is associated with a small, but significant, risk of hematological malignancies in individuals with schizophrenia, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022