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• Reassuring Data on Impact of Mild COVID-19 on the Heart A study shows no measurable impact on the heart 6 months after mild COVID-19 among healthcare workers, suggesting screening in asymptomatic individuals after mild disease is not indicated.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2021
• Freezing Breast Cancer to Death Avoids Surgery New results from a clinical trial of cryoablation for low-risk, early-stage breast cancer offer hope that the modality might one day be a treatment option in the US. But what's taking so long?
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2021
• Better Survival After Lumpectomy Plus RT vs Mastectomy Breast conservation surgery plus radiotherapy (RT) leads to better outcomes than mastectomy with or without RT for patients with early-stage disease.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2021
• Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism With a PE Response Team A growing number of institutions are utilizing pulmonary embolism response teams. This article provides an overview of the PERT process, highlighting risk stratification and treatment.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, May 10, 2021
• Failed Transcatheter Mitral Repair Will Require Valve Replacement Less than 5% of patients who require reintervention for a failed MitraClip procedure were able to be treated successfully with surgical mitral repair, requiring valve replacement instead.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• Topol Talks: COVID-19 Variants Are Innocent Until Proven Guilty Medscape Medical News Editor-in-Chief Eric Topol, MD, addresses the ability of current and future COVID-19 vaccines to combat SARS-CoV-2 variants and other obstacles to pandemic "containment."
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• Microwave Ablation of Symptomatic Benign Thyroid Nodules In what ways might microwave ablation therapy impact thyroid function tests?
  Clinical Endocrinology, May 06, 2021
• Thrombotic Complications in ICU Patients With COVID-19 How often do critically ill COVID-19 patients experience thrombotic complications? What role might CT imaging have in detecting these thromboses?
  Critical Care Medicine, May 06, 2021
• After Hundreds of Interviews, Here's John Whyte's View of COVID   Our problem with vaccines is that we talk about people instead of talking with people and listening to their perspectives.
  Medscape, May 05, 2021
• Docs Mobilize Help For Indian Colleagues Affected by COVID Surge Clinicians and healthcare workers from across the world are banding together to man hotlines, disseminate public health information, crowdfund equipment, and train young doctors.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2021
• Expanding Lung Cancer Screening: New Guidelines   Screening only 15% of patients at risk just isn't enough.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 05, 2021
• Osteoporosis in Patients With Developmental Disabilities Review the unique challenges in the diagnosis, prevention, and management of osteoporosis in patients with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
  Southern Medical Journal, May 04, 2021
• Less After-Hours Work on EHRs Linked to Less Physician Burnout Doctors who spent less time working on an EHR outside clinic hours were less likely to report burnout symptoms and got more EHR support from their organizations.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2021
• ISN 2021 New Study Confirms Kidney Dialysis Worsens Pregnancy Outcomes Pregnancy outcomes of women on dialysis were substantially worse than women with a kidney transplant who gave birth.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2021
• Hyperprogression on Immunotherapy: When Outcomes Are Much Worse Oncologists now accept that hyperprogression on immunotherapy, in which a patient fares much worse than expected, is a real phenomenon, but there is still no uniform definition.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2021
• Pregnancy Increases Risk for Symptomatic Kidney Stone Pregnancy increases the risk for first-time symptomatic kidney stone disease, which peaks close to the time of delivery but can persist even a year later.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2021
• Should Clinicians Be Required to Get COVID-19 Vaccines? Some healthcare workers are required to get annual influenza vaccines. Should there be a similar mandate for COVID-19 vaccination?
  Medscape Reader Polls, April 28, 2021
• IAMs for Acute Ischemic Stroke During Mechanical Thrombectomy This study investigated the role of intra-arterial adjunctive medications as rescue or concurrent therapy in combination with mechanical thrombectomy. Does it improve outcomes compared with MT alone?
  Stroke, April 28, 2021
• Radiological and Functional Lung Sequelae of COVID-19 A follow-up of COVID-19 patients provides insight into the radiological findings and lung function after recovery.
  BMC Pulmonary Medicine, April 28, 2021
• NKF 2021 Half of Patients in Hospital for COVID-19 Get Acute Kidney Injury Reports from two independent European case series further document the high incidence of acute kidney injury among patients hospitalized for COVID-19; lessons can be learned, says expert.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2021