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• Ubrogepant Eases Acute Migraine Pain, New Data Confirm Final results from the ACHIEVE II randomized, placebo-controlled trial confirm the safety and efficacy of the CGRP antagonist for acute migraine. FDA action is expected next month.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2019
• ACEP 2019Gun Violence More Health Problem Than Criminal Justice Issue Clinicians have protocols for health risks, such as alcohol withdrawal, but emergency physicians point out there is no guidance to evaluate those who might harm themselves or others.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2019
• No Link Between Abortion and Suicide Attempts Abortion does not increase a woman's risk of attempting suicide, calling into question state policies that require providers to tell women about its potential mental health risks, including suicide.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2019
• US Air Ambulances: Expensive, Risky, and Regulation-Averse Whereas the US has had 29 fatal air ambulance accidents since 2008, Canada has had just one and the UK has had none.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2019
• AMA Stands Up to Stop 'Fraud, Harm, Trauma' in LGBTQ Patients The American Medical Association has announced several new and updated policies to better support and protect transgender patients and other members of the LGBTQ community.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2019
• Identical Twins Don't Need Immunosuppression After Transplant Kidney transplants between monozygotic twins can be done successfully without immunosuppression, with excellent outcomes, shows an analysis of twin transplants in the modern era.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2019
• Questions Over Value of Bevacizumab in Many Cancers The value of bevacizumab in the treatment of many cancers has been questioned, given that it has been approved mostly on the basis of progression-free, and not overall, survival benefits.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2019
• New Pilot Program Reduces EHR Time With Voice-Enabled AI Voice-enabled AI assistant takes speech recognition to the next level, allowing doctors to generate notes with just a few voice commands.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2019
• Do You Ask Your Patients About Vaping Now? The emergence of acute lung injuries linked to e-cigarette use has heightened scrutiny of vaping.
  Medscape Reader Polls, November 20, 2019
• Atmospheric and Environmental Changes Tied to Organ-Specific Lupus Flares Changes in atmospheric and environmental factors may contribute to organ-specific disease exacerbation in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2019
• Portuguese Foundation Launches World's Largest Cancer Award Portugal's Champalimaud Foundation announced on Monday the world's largest annual prize, worth 1 million euros, for research and clinical practices aiming to control or eradicate cancer.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2019
• India Says E-Cigarette Ban Implies Use of Devices Also Prohibited The Indian government has told a court that its federal ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes implies that their use is also prohibited, legal documents seen by Reuters showed, in a further clampdown on the devices.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2019
• Close Contacts of China Plague Patients Released After Showing No Symptoms - Official Some people who had been in close contact with pneumonic plague patients from Inner Mongolia have been released from medical observation, China's health authority said on Monday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2019
• Vaccine Effective Against Smallpox in Military: Pivotal Trial The modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vaccine protected against variola infection among members of the U.S. Army, and did not raise safety concerns, the pivotal trial revealed.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2019
• Long-Term Pentosan Polysulfate Sodium Use Tied to Macular Disease Use of the interstitial cystitis drug pentosan polysulfate sodium (PPS) was associated with a new diagnosis of macular disease at the seven-year follow-up in a large retrospective matched cohort study.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2019
• Immigrants Don't Flock to States That Expand Health Benefits States that expand public health benefits to cover low-income legal immigrants don't appear to experience a surge in immigrants moving to get medical coverage, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2019
• Most Parents Struggle to Distinguish Teen Angst From Depression Telling the difference between a teen's normal ups and downs and something bigger is among top challenges parents face in identifying youth depression, a new national poll suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2019
• AMA Backs More Healthcare Economics Education for Med Students The American Medical Association urges more study of cost-effective use of diagnostic services and treatments.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2019
• Morphosys to Boost Size of Tafasitamab Drug Trial on Encouraging Interim Data German biotech company Morphosys said more patients would be recruited for a study testing its most advanced drug against a common type of blood cancer, following an encouraging interim data readout.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2019
• AHA 2019Silencing Novel Target Genes: A New Strategy for Lipid Lowering Following in the footsteps of inclisiran, two lipid-lowering therapies based on silencing specific genes involved in lipid metabolism showed promising preliminary results in initial clinical trials.
  Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2019