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• AI Could Improve Healthcare for All -- Unless it Doesn't AI-driven medical tools could democratize health care, but some worry they could also worsen inequalities.
  Undark, September 2019
• EASD 2019Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Up in Younger People and Risks Greater Since the year 2000 the proportion of younger people with type 2 diabetes has risen and these people have higher cardiovascular risk factors than older diabetics, including obesity and high HbA1c and LDL cholesterol levels.
  Medscape News UK, September 2019
• US Physicians Highest Paid Globally, but Spend Most for Training In some countries, public medical education is free or costs little. Gender gaps were evident in pay across all seven countries compared.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• USCA 2019Reimagining STI Clinics for a New Generation Clinics that are designed to be stylish, easy to access, and efficient are changing the way cities tackle STI testing and treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• VERIFY: Metformin + DPP-4 Inhibitor as Dual Therapy for Diabetes? VERIFY suggests that initial combination therapy for type 2 diabetes with metformin plus vildagliptin is well tolerated and effective; risk for treatment failure was 50% lower than in those on monotherapy.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• Adding a CTC Test May Improve Prostate Cancer Diagnosis A UK team has developed a novel test for prostate cancer using circulating tumor cells that, in combination with MRI, PSA, and a 12-gene panel, improved prostate cancer diagnosis noninvasively.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• Sexuality in Males With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia This study examined the potential impact of congenital adrenal hyperplasia on sexuality among male patients. What have we learned?
  Journal of the Endocrine Society, September 2019
• ECTRIMS 2019MESEMS: No Reduction in MS Lesions With Stem Cell Therapy Although the primary outcome of a multinational phase 2 study was negative, researchers said promising secondary findings support the use of mesenchymal stem cells in patients with MS.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• ESC 2019ORION-11: 50% Reduction in LDL With Twice-Yearly Injection Results of the ORION-11 study with the new RNA cholesterol-lowering agent inclisiran show sharp drops in LDL with safety consistent with previous studies.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• Many New Cancer Drug Approvals Based on 'Fragile' Data   An article from Lancet Oncology finds that trials bringing new cancer drugs to market aren't as robust as one might think (or hope).
  Medscape Oncology, September 2019
• ECNP 2019Anxiety in Pregnancy Linked to Hyperactivity in Offspring Teens High maternal anxiety during or after pregnancy may be a "window of opportunity" to prevent hyperactivity in their children, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• WCLC 2019Keyhole Rivals Open Surgery for Lung Cancer Resection A comparison of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) shows that this keyhole approach to lung cancer resection rivals open surgery, and is associated with less pain and shorter hospital stays.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• ECNP 2019rTMS Boosts Cognitive Function in Schizophrenia Plus Depression Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation provides greater cognitive improvements than antidepressant therapy in patients with depression in schizophrenia, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• INHSU 2019Hepatitis C Vaccine Disappoints, Another in the Works The second-generation vaccine is being developed by one of the members of the research team that first discovered hepatitis C.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• Family Members at Higher Risk for Blood Cancers First-degree relatives of a patient with blood cancer are at an increased risk of also being diagnosed, suggesting a shared etiology across hematologic malignancies.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• ESC 2019AI Could Slash Diagnosis Costs in Stable Chest Pain Patients Using an artificial intelligence-based decision support system could help clinicians treating stable chest pain patients to not only better use resources, but reduce patient stress too, say UK researchers.
  Medscape News UK, September 2019
• ESC 2019Risk Score Reveals Nonvascular Factors Linked to GI Bleed Identification of nonvascular factors that predict major gastrointestinal bleed may help in choosing the most appropriate patients for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, say researchers.
  Medscape News UK, September 2019
• Complications of Cosmetic Surgery Abroad Why might patients seek cosmetic procedures abroad -- and what are the risks involved?
  Plastic Reconstructive Surgery-Global Open (PRS Global Open), September 2019
• Ablation, Surgery Edge Sclerotherapy for Varicose Veins In a multicenter randomized trial, outcomes with laser ablation and surgery were better at 5 years post treatment than with foam sclerotherapy; laser treatment was most cost-effective.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• Myth Busted? No Sex Differences in Typical MI Symptoms Typical MI symptoms are more common and have greater predictive value in women than men, and guidelines should be updated to reflect this, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019