Medscape Medical News

• AIPM 2018Coverage for Integrative Pain Therapies on the Horizon Healthcare providers, policy makers, insurers, and other stakeholders are making progress in ensuring improved access to integrative pain management therapies such as yoga, acupuncture, and massage.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• AASLD 2018Nivolumab Effective in Liver Cancer, Child–Pugh B Status New data from the CheckMate 040 trial suggest another indication is in the works for the checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Insurer Faces $25.5m Payout After Denial of Proton Therapy Health insurer Aetna denied proton therapy because it was 'experimental.' This jury verdict raises the possibility that other denial-of-care suits will follow.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• AIPM 2018CBT May Reduce Pain, Decrease Opioid Use Cognitive behavioral therapy, offered in-office or online, may reduce pain and opioid use in addition to improving sleep and mood, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• AHA 2018Just One Energy Drink Reduces Endothelial Function A new study shows that consuming just one can of an energy drink was linked to an almost 50% reduction in arterial dilation, which could lead to problems, particularly during exercise.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Unique Brain Pattern May Predict Schizophrenia Conversion A recently discovered pattern of brain activity may predict the onset of schizophrenia long before the first appearance of symptoms, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• OBESITY WEEK 2018Low-Carbohydrate Diets May Increase Energy Expenditure Study finds that people consuming a lower-carbohydrate diet following weight loss have greater energy expenditure compared with a higher-carb diet, but methodology called into question.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• MSI CRC Not Responding to Immunotherapy: Is it Misdiagnosis? Patients with MSI-H tumors who do not initially respond to immunotherapy are presumed to have primary resistance. But there is the tantalizing possibility that they may have been misdiagnosed.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• AIPM 2018Mobile Apps Help Patients Cope With Pain Mobile apps that track pain levels, sleep, mood, and activity are improving patient outcomes, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Concomitant Use of AD Meds Tied to Faster Decline in Trials The use of cholinesterase inhibitors or memantine must be accounted for in the design and analysis of Alzheimer's disease trial data to prevent erroneous conclusions, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• AASLD 2018In Older Hep B Patients, Carcinoma Surveillance Is Advised Patients older than 50 years should still be screened for hepatocellular carcinoma after the 5 years of therapy for chronic hepatitis B, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• FDA Panels Recommend Approval of Abuse-Deterrent IR Oxycodone Two FDA advisory committees voted 10-7 for recommending approval for a new abuse-deterrent formulation of immediate-release (IR) oxycodone to treat adult patients with severe pain.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Office Visits to Primary Care Physicians Down Sharply The decline in office visits to primary care physicians from 2012 to 2016 was partially offset by increases in visits to nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• OBESITY WEEK 2018Long-Term Phentermine for Weight Loss Appears Safe, Effective Retrospective study not definitive, but lends support to extending use of the generic commonly used obesity drug beyond the short-term label indication.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• AHA 2018T-TIME: Low-dose Alteplase No Match for Microvascular Obstruction Microvascular obstruction, perceived as the 'final frontier' in ST-segment elevation MI, failed to yield to low-dose intracoronary alteplase.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Teenage Obesity & Fourfold Increase in Risk for Pancreatic Cancer Data linking two large Israeli databases suggest that obesity during teenage years increases the risk for adult pancreatic cancer fourfold. Being overweight increases the risk twofold.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• AHA 2018Stem Cell Adjunct to LVAD Trial Negative, But 'Intriguing' A new study did not show overall benefit on cardiac function, but there did appear to be an improvement in patients with ischemic heart failure and a large reduction in GI bleeding.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• Downplaying Drug Toxicity in Oncology Clinical Trials Incomplete reporting that downplayed drug-related adverse events was identified in 43% of reports of cancer drug trials published by top medical journals.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• SGLT2 Inhibitor Amputation Risk Seen in Real-World Diabetes Study The risk of lower limb amputations and diabetic ketoacidosis associated with use of SGLT2 inhibitors for type 2 diabetes are notable but small, the Scandinavian authors note.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• AHA 2018Speedy Angiography Needed in NSTE ACS Without Prior P2Y12 Inhibitor The EARLY trial also suggests that if there is a delay in sending a patient with non-ST- segment-elevation ACS to the cath lab, the patient should receive aggressive guideline-based medical therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018