Ob/Gyn and Women's Health News

• Psoriasis Guidelines Focus on Treatment of Adults The guidelines noted the 'key role' of topical corticosteroids in treating psoriasis 'especially for localized disease.'
  Medscape Medical News, August 10, 2020
• COVID-19 Update: Vaccine Challenge Trials, Desperate PPE Measures These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Coronavirus Vaccine Unlikely Before Election Day: AMA President Enrollment in phase 3 trials has just begun, and it will probably take longer than that to collect sufficient data, Dr Susan Bailey said.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Small Practices, Struggling With PPE, Band Together to Buy in Bulk Problems buying PPE have persisted for independent practices, causing delays in reopening and putting clinicians at risk. Nonprofits and medical associations are stepping in to fill the gap.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Are Human Challenge Trials for COVID-19 Vaccine Worth the Risk? Human challenge trials for a COVID-19 vaccine could speed development by months or more but could also place study volunteers at a much higher risk for complications and even death.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• AACR 2020No Increase in Risk of Death From COVID-19 in Cancer Patients Immune checkpoint inhibition was not associated with an increased mortality risk from COVID-19 in patients with cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Antiviral Combo Shows Early Promise Against HCV in Pregnancy The combination of ledipasvir and sofosbuvir appears to be safe and effective in treating pregnant women infected with genotype 1 hepatitis C virus, curing all nine participants in a phase 1 trial.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• Does Stirrup Choice Influence Vaginal Surgery Outcome? "The difference of the angles at the femur is not inherent to the type of stirrup but in the method in which the patients were positioned using the two different types of stirrups."
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Only 42% Would Get Vaccinated Against COVID 'If and when a coronavirus vaccine becomes available, will you get vaccinated?'
  WebMD Health News, August 07, 2020
• Appendix May Be Common Site of Endometriosis 'In the women with appendiceal endometriosis, only 26% had an appendix that looked abnormal.'
  Medscape Medical News, August 07, 2020
• Regular MRI Screening Suggested for Women With Familial Breast Cancer Risk Women ages 35-60 with a family history of breast cancer can be cost-effectively screened with MRIå every 18 months, an economic evaluation modeling study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• Patients With Gynecologic Cancers Not at Increased Risk for Severe COVID-19 Women with gynecologic cancer do not appear to be at increased risk of being hospitalized with COVID-19 or dying from the infection, according to a study from New York City.
  Reuters Health Information, August 06, 2020
• COVID-19 Update: Conspiracy Theories, Cutaneous Clues These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, August 05, 2020
• More Than Half of Doctors Now Part of Healthcare Systems Study finds big jump in hospital employment from 2016 to 2018; what will happen as a result of the pandemic remains to be seen.
  Medscape Medical News, August 05, 2020
• Virus Testing in the US Is Dropping, Even as Deaths Mount An AP analysis found that the number of tests per day decreased 3.6% over the past 2 weeks to a total nationwide of 750,000. Long wait times to get tested and learn of results are blamed for the drop.
  Associated Press, August 05, 2020
• What to Do About Interference Between Maternal Pertussis Vaccination, Infant's DTwP Shot Health providers should pay extra attention to infants with signs of pertussis given the potential interaction between maternal vaccination and the baby's responses to DTwP vaccination, according to a new opinion piece in Pediatrics.
  Reuters Health Information, August 04, 2020
• Prenatal Flu Vaccine Not Linked to Adverse Early Childhood Outcomes In utero exposure to influenza vaccines doesn't appear to contribute to mortality, morbidity or adverse health outcomes in children under five years of age, a systematic review suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, August 04, 2020
• Are You Considering Quitting Clinical Medicine? Taking on an administrative or executive role can sound appealing to many clinicians, particularly because of COVID-19's effects on healthcare.
  Medscape Reader Polls, August 05, 2020
• Reduce Likelihood of Infection After Hysterectomy 'Implementation of bundled interventions and an institutional focus on reducing infection can successfully reduce the burden of posthysterectomy infectious morbidity.'
  Medscape Medical News, August 05, 2020
• Educating Providers on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Be aware of possible risk factors, including a mother or sibling with a history of FGM/C, or patients with a country of origin, birth country, or travel history to a country where FGM/C is practiced.
  Medscape Medical News, August 05, 2020