Emergency Medicine News

• Pesticides, Common Chemicals Could Raise Breast Cancer Risk Nearly 300 chemicals found in everything from pesticides to food additives, cosmetics, and even water could be increasing the risk of breast cancer in American women, a new study shows.
  Reuters Health Information, July 30, 2021
• Different IV Bisphosphonates Tied to Similar Skeletal Event Rate The risk of recurrent skeletal-related events in patients with multiple myeloma is similar with IV bisphosphonate dosing schedules ranging from 4 weeks to longer than 12 weeks, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 30, 2021
• Postdiagnosis Smoking Cessation Tied to Improved Lung Cancer Outcomes Current smokers who quit after they're diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer have better overall and progression-free survival than counterparts who continue smoking, a small study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 30, 2021
• Long-Term Complications From Subcutaneous ICDs Assessed Using real-world patient data, researchers documented long-term complications from subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators.
  Reuters Health Information, July 30, 2021
• Early Response in Nasal Cells May Predict Severe COVID-19 How cells lining the nose respond to the coronavirus might someday be used to predict how sick a person will become with COVID-19, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, July 30, 2021
• COVID-19 an Independent Driver for Heart Attack and Stroke COVID-19 independently raises the risk for acute myocardial infarction and stroke, according to the largest and most detailed analysis of the association to date.
  Medscape Medical News, August 02, 2021
• What Will History Say About COVID? All of us are curators now, and what we preserve — as well as what we don't — will write the pandemic story.
  Knowable Magazine, August 02, 2021
• California Learns Costly Pandemic Lesson About Hospitals California spent nearly $200 million to set up, operate, and staff alternate care sites. It was an expensive way to learn their hospital system is far more elastic than was thought at the start of the pandemic.
  Associated Press, August 02, 2021
• Texas Health Systems Feeling Crunch of Latest COVID Surge In Austin, the health department said there were only nine ICU beds available on Friday in the 11-county trauma service region that includes the city and serves 2.3 million people.
  Associated Press, August 02, 2021
• Vaccination Alone Won't Counter Rise of Resistant Variants: Study Modeling showed that nonpharmaceutical interventions against pandemic viral infection maintained during vaccination campaigns can counter the emergence of vaccine-resistant mutations.
  Medscape Medical News, July 30, 2021
• Florida Virus Cases Soar, Hospitals Near Last Summer's Peak Hospital admissions of coronavirus patients continue to soar in Florida, prompting calls by local officials for the governor to declare an emergency.
  Associated Press, July 30, 2021
• Some Young Athletes With Genetic Heart Disease Can Stay in the Game, With Appropriate Care New data from the Mayo Clinic challenges the automatic benching of all athletes found to have a genetic heart disease predisposing to sudden cardiac death, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Do I Have Bad Breath? A New Sensor Will Check Scientists are developing a new device to check breath for hydrogen sulfide, the gas that prompts the unpleasant smell from the mouth.
  WebMD Health News, July 30, 2021
• Ravages of COVID Surge Evident Inside Missouri Hospital It's a scenario playing out time and again at Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, where 22 people died from the virus in the first 23 days of July.
  Associated Press, July 30, 2021
• Report: Vaccinated People Infected With Delta Remain Contagious The New York Times reports the CDC will unveil new data that prompted a recent change in mask guidance.
  Medscape Medical News, July 29, 2021
• 'A Few Mutations Away': The Threat of a Vaccine-Proof Variant How close is the world to seeing a SARS-CoV-2 variant that gets around protection from current COVID-19 vaccines?
  Medscape Medical News, July 29, 2021
• US FDA Allows Lilly's COVID-19 Drug to Be Taken Without Remdesivir The US health regulator expanded the emergency use authorization for Eli Lilly's COVID-19 drug baricitinib, saying it could now be used without taking Gilead's drug remdesivir along with it, Lilly said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, July 29, 2021
• Fighting Fauci: From Ridicule to Death Threats, Attacks Continue As one of the key government officials relaying information about the pandemic to the public, Fauci is front and center. That often brings with it the risk of scorn, and sometimes serious threats.
  Medscape Medical News, July 29, 2021
• Viral Particle Aerosolization During Tracheostomy Care Can Be Minimized Tracheostomy care leads to significant aerosol generation, but experiments in manikins suggest covering the stoma with a heat moisture exchanger and surgical mask can lead to a significant risk reduction.
  Reuters Health Information, July 28, 2021
• Pfizer Vaccine Protection Wanes After 6 Months: Study Following reports that antibody levels can wane after a second dose of the Pfizer mRNA come more encouraging data regarding a third dose.
  Medscape Medical News, July 28, 2021