Medscape Medical News

• Frequent Visits to Green Spaces Linked to Lower Use of Some Meds In a study of Finnish city dwellers, those who often visited green spaces, such as parks and community gardens, used fewer psychotropic, antihypertensive, and asthma meds than those who did not.
  Medscape Medical News, February 01, 2023
• Black Patients Less Likely to Receive Opioids for Advanced Cancer Older Black patients with advanced cancer are less likely than White patients to receive opioids for pain relief yet are more likely to receive drug screenings in the last weeks of life.
  Medscape Medical News, February 01, 2023
• Medical Board Charges Doctor for Spreading COVID Misinformation The Washington state medical board investigated a pathologist after complaints from the American Board of Pathology and several physicians.
  Medscape Medical News, February 01, 2023
• Legacy ICDs Exposed to MRI Still Shock, Pace as Needed Non-MRI-conditional devices need a few adjustments before imaging but still reliably deliver therapy. Referring such patients to larger centers only makes it harder for them to get required scans.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Children and COVID: Weekly Cases May Have Doubled in Early January Although new COVID-19 cases in children, as measured by the AAP and the CHA, remained steady in recent months, data from the CDC suggest that weekly cases took a big jump in early January.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Can AI Conquer the Late-Shift Dip in Colonoscopy Quality? Artificial intelligence may be an effective tool to minimize the well-known, time-related degradation in colonoscopy quality.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• First Humira Biosimilar Launches in US Amgen's Amjevita will be offered at 5% and 55% below Humira's list price, but patients may not benefit from the more significant discount.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• SCCM 2023 Genetic Testing in the PICU Prompts Meaningful Changes in Care A multicenter study showed the potential value of rapid whole genome sequencing to impact care of critically ill children.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Quality of Life Predicts Chemo Tolerance in Early Breast Cancer Fatigue and poor physical functioning before treatment, in particular, are associated with worse tolerance of chemotherapy among patients with early breast cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Loneliness Risk Elevated Among Young Cancer Survivors The new analysis found that young adult cancer survivors also face an increased risk for depression, anxiety, and other health problems related to loneliness.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• New European Kidney Function Equation: Improvement in Performance? The European Kidney Function Consortium equation for eGFR can now use cystatin C as well as serum creatinine; this combination produces the most accurate kidney function estimate, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• 'Depression Circuit' Identified in MS Patients The common coexistence of depression and multiple sclerosis may be explained in part by the involvement of a particular brain circuit, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Autism Linked to Poor Cardiovascular Health A new study added to the picture of autism’s health risks and called for clinicians to be more mindful of its cardiometabolic toll.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Similar Brain Atrophy in Obesity and Alzheimer's Disease Gray matter thinning in patients with obesity correlates with that in patients with Alzheimer's disease. It mainly affects the right temporo-parietal cortex and left prefrontal cortex.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Poor Sleep Quality as a Teen May Up MS Risk in Adulthood Poor sleep quality or sleeping less than 7 hours a night during adolescence is linked to a 40% to 50% increase in risk for multiple sclerosis as an adult, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Cardioprotection for 20 Years for Children With Cancer A case is building for the routine use of dexrazoxane to protect the hearts of children with cancer being treated with doxorubicin.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• TMS Tied to Antidepressant, Anxiolytic Effects in Anxious Depression Transcranial magnetic stimulation is associated with reductions in both anxiety and depression scores in patients with both disorders, a large new analysis shows.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• Chemo in Afternoon Works Better Than in Morning, but Only in Women For women with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma undergoing chemotherapy, survival was better with less toxicity when the drugs were administered in the afternoon than in the morning.
  Medscape Medical News, January 31, 2023
• SCCM 2023 Citing Workplace Violence, a Quarter of HCWs Are Ready to Quit Data from 69 countries show the toll that violence in the workplace takes on our healthcare system.
  Medscape Medical News, January 30, 2023
• Long QT Syndrome Overdiagnosis Persists Five 'diagnostic miscues' underlie overdiagnosis and misdiagnosis of long QT syndrome, which can profoundly affect patients' quality of life.
  Medscape Medical News, January 30, 2023