Medscape Medical News

• Physician-led ACOs See Challenges in New Medicare Model: Report Smaller, doctor-led ACOs need more infrastructure, expertise, and capital to take downside risk, Duke-Margolis researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2020
• SCCM 2020Coronavirus Care Planning 'More Important Than Containment' Hospitals need to get ready for a surge of patients, experts warn.
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2020
• Alert 'Momentous' USMLE Change: New Pass/Fail Format Stuns Medicine Most agree the move will reduce the outsized role the test scores play in landing residencies, but many worry about how program directors will make the choice when they don't have an initial cutoff.
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2020
• GI Bleeding on Oral Anticoagulants in AF Foremost a Cancer Red Flag An observational study 'is a wake-up call for us to not let any kind of bleed in the GI tract go without a more detailed investigation for potential cancer,' says an expert observer.
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2020
• GUCS 2020A Rare QoL Study That Could Change Practice Two drugs comparably improve survival in the treatment of men with hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, so researchers looked at quality of life to see whether that was a difference maker.
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2020
• Endocrinologists Are Burned Out and Unhappy, Survey Finds The latest Medscape Specialist Lifestyle survey paints a worrisome picture.
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2020
• High Failure Rate for Magnetic Rod System in Scoliosis Surgery Authors recommend that surgeons gradually stretch the spine when using the magnetic rod system in kids with scoliosis
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2020
• House Committees Advance Bills to Address Surprise Billing Lawmakers considered how to protect insured consumers from unexpectedly high medical bills. A May deadline to pass unrelated health laws serves as Congress' target date to also act on surprise billing.
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2020
• Pediatrician's Suicide Note Reveals Regret Over Fake Vaccinations Van Koinis, MD, an Illinois physician who died by self-inflicted gunshot wound, penned a suicide note indicating that he had been falsifying vaccination records for children in his practice.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• Two New Novel Coronavirus Cases Among Quarantined US Patients The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that two new patients have the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), bringing the case total in the United States to 15.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• ACC Guidance on Cardiac Implications of Coronavirus As spread of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus continues, the American College of Cardiology has released a clinical update that looks at early cardiac implications and clinical guidance.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• Resolute Onyx Stent Safe and Effective in High-Bleeding-Risk Patients Now published, results of the Onyx ONE trial show the Resolute Onyx polymer-based stent was noninferior to the polymer-free Biofreedom in patients at high bleeding risk.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• EEG Signature Predicts Antidepressant Response A novel artificial intelligence algorithm can accurately predict which patients will respond positively to the antidepressant sertraline, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• Pathways to New Therapeutic Agents for Human Coronaviruses Although no specific treatment is currently available for human coronaviruses, numerous antiviral agents are being identified through a variety of approaches.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• ISC 2020Stroke Risk Tied to Diabetic Retinopathy May Not Be Modifiable New evidence confirming the association between diabetic retinopathy and elevated stroke risk also demonstrates that common clinical interventions to lower risk may not help.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• How Yoga Exercises Its Positive Effect on Depression Investigators found that practicing yoga was associated with improved mood and increased levels of gamma aminobutyric acid in patients with major depressive disorder.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• Another Round of Research Shows Ketamine May Help Alcoholism More evidence suggests a single infusion of ketamine plus counseling helps alcohol-dependent patients curb their drinking.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• Sperm Differences in Obesity May Not Show Up on Fertility Tests 'We have shown that obesity significantly impacts the human sperm proteome, potentially to the detriment of important spermatogenic processes and the function of mature spermatozoa,' say researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• More Than 50 Polyps in Some Young Cancer Survivors Pediatric and young adult cancer patients are at risk of developing numerous polyps (for some, more than 50 polyps) as a result of prior cancer treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020
• Late Events Continue to Accrue After PCI Stent-related events continue to accrue at a rate of about 2% per year between 1 and 5 years after PCI, highlighting that there's still room for improvement in technology and technique.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2020