Medscape Medical News

• Can We Get to 'COVID Zero'? Experts Predict the Next 8 Months Vaccines, variants, and seasonal variation all go into calculations about the likely future of the COVID-19 pandemic through next winter.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Small Clinics, Practices Key to COVID Vaccine Success: Officials The federal government will soon provide smaller vaccine shipments that can more easily be used by individual doctors.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• AAN 2021 Long-term Benefit for DBS in Treating Parkinson's Motor Symptoms Deep brain stimulation significantly improves motor function in patients with Parkinson's disease over the long term regardless of the therapeutic target. However, nonmotor symptoms continued to progress, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Many Postsurgical Hospital Readmissions Preventable Could improved inpatient and ambulatory care lower the rate?
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• AAN 2021 Novel Treatment Approach in Transthyretin Amyloidosis A potential new treatment option aimed at clearing amyloid deposits from vital organs has shown promising preliminary results in an initial clinical trial.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Postsurgical Percutaneous Nerve Stimulation Cuts Pain, Opioid Use 'The treatment effect was much greater than what we had anticipated,' the researchers note.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• AAN 2021 The Neurology of Long-haul COVID-19 Clinical patterns and pathology are beginning to hint at the biology behind persistent neurologic complaints after COVID.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Gardening May Weed Out Dementia-Related Apathy Apathy is one of the most challenging symptoms of dementia. This novel approach uses gardening, plant-based crafts, and cooking to engage patients.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• AAN 2021 Nondopamine Antipsychotic Shows Clinical Signal in PD Psychosis SEP-363856 has shown signals that it may improve psychosis symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease without worsening motor symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Hope, but No Home Runs: Biomarker Distinction Between MI Types Several nontroponin assays showed 'modest promise' for early differentiation of 'demand' type 2 myocardial infarction from the more familiar atherothrombotic type 1 MI in a prospective study.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• AAN 2021 COVID-19 Linked to Novel Epileptic Seizures Patients with COVID-19 who have no history of epilepsy may be at risk for novel seizures and subsequent adverse outcomes, including increased mortality.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Wake-Up Call: Short Sleep Tied to Increased Dementia Risk Short sleepers in midlife have an increased risk for dementia, independent of mental health and other factors, highlighting the importance of sleep for brain health, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Boosting the Presence of Darker Skin in Rheumatology Education Doctors are beginning to address rheumatologists' educational gaps in exposure to and knowledge about rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases in people with darker skin color.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Early Exposure Key to Solving Pediatric Rheumatologist Shortage Increasing medical students' and residents' exposure to the field earlier could help improve recruitment, while policies such as loan repayment programs could overcome the deterrent of a lower income.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• ISAD 2021 TARC Identifies Poor Dupilumab Response in Atopic Dermatitis Serum thymus and activation-regulated chemokine (TARC) levels may pinpoint a category of atopic dermatitis cases needing the most intensive dupilumab treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• AACR 2021 Tislelizumab Bests Docetaxel in NSCLC The new immunotherapy prolonged overall survival when compared with docetaxel in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Wearable Continuous Ketone Monitoring Appears Feasible A small study demonstrates efficacy of technology that could add to 'an ever-increasing array of new devices' for people with diabetes as well as 'those looking to optimize their metabolic health.'
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Timing Important for COVID Vax in Patients With Blood Cancers Two further studies show that response to COVID-19 vaccination is impaired in patients with blood cancers, but experts still recommended vaccination, because COVID-19 can be deadly in this population.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Study Shows How COVID-19 Disrupted RA Meds Early COVID-19 restrictions significantly altered medication and management patterns among RA patients.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• COVID Vax Response OK in Most With Chronic Inflammatory Diseases Preprint publication study shows that those with CID mount immune responses after receiving COVID-19 vaccines, but responses are reduced in some patients.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021