Ob/Gyn and Women's Health News

• COVID-19 Daily: Encephalitis Case Report, Silent Spreaders These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, April 03, 2020
• The Week That Wasn't in COVID-19: Elon Musk, 'Pandemic' Scientist Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, April 03, 2020
• SGO 2020Promising Efficacy With Adavosertib in Uterine Serous Carcinoma The experimental agent adavosertib showed hints of efficacy against recurrent uterine serous carcinoma in early data from a phase 2 trial.
  Medscape Medical News, April 03, 2020
• Alert EMA Restricts Fosfomycin Use Following Evidence Review The EMA will restrict use of intravenous and oral formulations and suspend pediatric and intramuscular formulations of fosfomycin-based antibiotics.
  News Alerts, April 03, 2020
• COVID-19 Daily: Critical Drug Shortages, In Memoriam These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2020
• Key Drugs Join PPEs on List of Front-Line Shortages Orders shot up exponentially in March for sedatives such as fentanyl, propofol, and midazolam — and order fill rates are dropping.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2020
• AAD 2020A Decade of Telemedicine Policy Has Advanced in Just 2 Weeks The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the practice of medicine, and dermatologists are helping other specialists embrace virtual visits so that patients and staff are safe and resources are not wasted.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2020
• SGO 2020Financial Toxicity Is Common With Gynecologic Cancers More than one fifth of patients who are treated for gynecologic malignancies experience financial toxicity, results of a single-center study suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2020
• SGO 2020Younger Gynecologic Cancer Patients at Risk for Early Bone Loss These patients should be screened for bone changes, investigators advise.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2020
• SGO 2020Advanced Ovarian Cancer: Survival & NAC Use Continue to Increase Survival of patients with advanced ovarian cancer continues to increase, despite concerns that increased use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) could have a negative impact on outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2020
• In Memoriam: Healthcare Workers Who Have Died of COVID-19 More than 100 doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals have died treating patients with COVID-19. Medscape wants to make sure they are not forgotten.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2020
• COVID-19 Daily: Universal Mask Usage, Death Projections These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2020
• How Scientists Predict How Many People Will Get COVID-19 Projections can change by the day. Here's a guide to where the numbers come from.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2020
• After Steady Decline, Influenza Activity Rising Again in US Influenza cases confirmed in clinical laboratories fell recently, but healthcare visits for influenza-like illness continue to rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2020
• COVID-19 Daily: 1.4% Case Fatality Rate, Clinician Pay Cuts These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2020
• Mailed Notices of High Breast Cancer Risk Do Not Often Translate Into Behavior Changes Most women who are notified by mail that they have a high risk of breast cancer are unlikely to do anything about it, a small study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, March 30, 2020
• Case Fatality Rate for COVID-19 Near 1.4%, Increases With Age The case fatality rate among persons aged 80 years or older is close to 8%, authors of new study estimate.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2020
• Top 10 Tips for Diabetes Telehealth Prophetic in Face of COVID-19 A new article sets the stage for routine virtual diabetes visits, offering 10 top tips that will undoubtedly be of use for transforming care during the COVID-19 pandemic, and likely for long afterwards.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2020
• Abortion Access Shifting in Some States Amid COVID-19 In addition to challenges the coronavirus pandemic already poses to women seeking healthcare, several states have included surgical abortions as restricted procedures in executive orders related to COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2020
• ENDO 2020Endocrine Society Annual Meeting to Proceed Online in June The meeting is now scheduled for June 8-22, 2020; the content will include a mix of on-demand and live sessions with clinical and basic science content.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2020