Medscape Medical News

• An X-ray Like a Christmas Tree: One Refugee's Mysterious Case The case, published in The Lancet in 2019, illustrates the challenges of refugee healthcare, even among those who are resettled in a high-resource country.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• PTSD Prevalent in Survivors of Severe COVID-19 Posttraumatic stress disorders may occur in as many as one third of patients who recover from severe COVID-19 infection, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• Wide Glucose Swings Equal Poor COVID-19 Outcomes in Diabetes Glucose levels outside of 70-160 mg/dL and glycemic variability measured with intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring were identified as risk factors for worse COVID-19 outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• No Vascular Benefit of Testosterone Over Exercise in Aging Men Treatment with the hormone, at therapeutic doses, did not impact vascular endothelial function, nor was it additive to exercise in a randomized trial.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• Early Motor Signal Specific to Alzheimer's Identified Gait abnormalities can herald cognitive impairments in neurodegenerative conditions, especially Alzheimer's disease.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• Armpit Swelling After COVID-19 Vaccine May Mimic Breast Cancer Some women have experienced axillary node swelling after receiving the Pzifer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The swelling mimics symptoms of breast cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• US Cancer Drug Approvals Ensure Access but Not Value Many cancer drugs come to market in the US at unaffordable prices and uncertainty about benefits and harms; their uptake is often delayed elsewhere.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• HHS Nominee Becerra Awaits Votes After Two Confirmation Hearings Neither committee has formally voted on Becerra, who also has to receive 51 votes in the full Senate.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• Late-Window Stroke Thrombolysis Not Linked to Clot Migration The results provide some reassurance that use of bridging thrombolysis before endovascular therapy will not put clots out of reach in patients who present outside the 4.5-hour window.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• FDA Places Clinical Hold on Sickle Cell Gene Therapy FDA placed a clinical hold on two gene therapy clinical trials for sickle cell disease after two patients developed blood diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• NPA 2021 Depression, Chronic Comorbidities 'Inextricably Linked' Depression prevalence is 2 to 10 times higher for patients with chronic medical conditions -- especially chronic pain, where the prevalence reaches 40%-60%, experts report.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Big Data 'Clinch' Link Between High Glycemic Index Diets and CVD Data from nearly 120,000 adults worldwide in the PURE study forms the clearest evidence so far that a diet with less processed carbs is associated with fewer deaths and CVD events.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Moderna Variant-Specific Vaccine Ready to Study The COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer has submitted a variant vaccine to the NIH for further study and revealed its strategy for addressing current and emerging variants of concern.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Novavax to Seek EUA for COVID-19 Vaccine as Early as April The company has completed enrollment in its pivotal trial and aims to apply for FDA emergency use sometime in second quarter.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Journal to Retract Psych Paper After Plagiarism Allegations A medical journal is retracting a paper after a psychiatrist alleged that the managing editor closely copied and published her withdrawn work and claimed it for his own.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Fauci Introduces New Acronym for Long COVID Scientists are working overtime to gain knowledge of the long-term effects of COVID-19, said Anthony Fauci, MD, during a wide-ranging briefing at the White House.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Nystagmus From Living in the Dark Cured With Light Exposure A new case report of so-called miner's nystagmus demonstrates the remarkable plasticity of the brain, the authors say, and suggests that historical reports of this condition by miners were genuine.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Lewy Body Dementia Genes Show Links to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's New research has uncovered five genes linked to Lewy body dementia that have previously been implicated in either Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Frozen Sections Can Guide Biopsies for Giant Cell Arteritis Second TAB procedures are often performed in patients with a high level of suspicion for GCA, which may result in unnecessary treatments and complications, Devon A. Cohen, MD wrote.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• New Cases of Child COVID-19 Drop for Fifth Straight Week New child cases totaled 70,640 for the week of Feb. 12-18, down from 99,000 the previous week, making for the lowest count since the week of Oct. 23-29.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021