Medscape Medical News

• COVID-19 Update: Vaccine Challenge Trials, Desperate PPE Measures These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Coronavirus Vaccine Unlikely Before Election Day: AMA President Enrollment in phase 3 trials has just begun, and it will probably take longer than that to collect sufficient data, Dr Susan Bailey said.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• AHA Statement Recommends Dietary Screening at Routine Checkups Poor diet is the "number one" risk factor for heart disease, but most clinicians don't discuss it. A new statement advocates routinely incorporating brief dietary screening tools into patient visits.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Consensus Document Reviews Determination of Brain Death An international team of experts provides evidence-based criteria and recommends clinical and apnea testing for the determination of brain death or death by neurologic criteria.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Small Practices, Struggling With PPE, Band Together to Buy in Bulk Problems buying PPE have persisted for independent practices, causing delays in reopening and putting clinicians at risk. Nonprofits and medical associations are stepping in to fill the gap.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Are Human Challenge Trials for COVID-19 Vaccine Worth the Risk? Human challenge trials for a COVID-19 vaccine could speed development by months or more but could also place study volunteers at a much higher risk for complications and even death.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• 'Doubling Down' on Hydroxychloroquine QT Prolongation in COVID-19 Patients had progressively longer QT intervals with hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin but also frequently received other drugs that had QT-prolonging effects in a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• AACR 2020No Increase in Risk of Death From COVID-19 in Cancer Patients Immune checkpoint inhibition was not associated with an increased mortality risk from COVID-19 in patients with cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Diabetic Amputations Soared Amid Italian Pandemic Lockdown Amputation rates skyrocketed at an Italian hospital far from the hardest-hit region amid a mandatory national lockdown, a new study has revealed.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Does Stirrup Choice Influence Vaginal Surgery Outcome? "The difference of the angles at the femur is not inherent to the type of stirrup but in the method in which the patients were positioned using the two different types of stirrups."
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• ACP, Others Call on Schools to Waive the MCAT for 2021 Cycle The Association of American Medical Colleges, however, says keeping the test is the only fair solution and that MCAT-optional and online solutions would introduce a different kind of inequity.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Guidance Covers Glycemia in Dexamethasone-Treated COVID-19 The latest document from the COVID-19 response group of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists is a response to the recent RECOVERY trial.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Weight Gain Persists as HIV-Treatment Issue Reports have rattled the HIV-treatment community by associating alarmingly high levels of weight gain with a useful and relatively new drug, tenofovir alafenamide fumarate.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• AHA on Cannabis: No Evidence of Heart Benefits, but Potential Harms The statement from the American Heart Association indicates that evidence for a link between cannabis use and cardiovascular health remains unsupported. Various cannabis formulations are addressed.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Appendix May Be Common Site of Endometriosis 'In the women with appendiceal endometriosis, only 26% had an appendix that looked abnormal.'
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Dermatology Atlas Will Profile Disease in All Skin Types From the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, multiple nonviral pandemics have rapidly emerged, 'most notably the persistent and well-masked racism that maintains disparities in all facets of life.'
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Experimental Nonstimulant Effective, Fast-Acting for ADHD Once-daily viloxazine reduced symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as soon as 1 week after dosing and was well tolerated in a pivotal phase 3 study.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• A Call to Test Men With Prostate Cancer for COVID-19 A team of New York City urologists proposes that men with prostate cancer get tested for COVID-19 because of their vulnerabilities to the infection.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Vitamin D Fails to Prevent Late-Life Depression, Boost Mood VITAL-DEP, a large randomized trial, shows no benefit of vitamin D3 supplements for the prevention of depression in the general population of middle-aged and older adults.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• EAU 2020Beyond PSA: New Prostate Cancer Screening Options
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020