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• What to Do When a Minor Seeks Vaccination Without Consent? More adolescents may be spurred to act on their own and get vaccinated amid growing disease outbreaks and seeing peers doing the same on social media.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Interval Training May Be Best for Weight Loss Individuals who perform interval training, especially sprint interval training, appear to lose more weight than those who do moderate-intensity continuous exercise, suggests a meta-analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• 'It's Not Every Day' This Response Rate Seen in TNBC A novel targeted therapy provided an incremental improvement in response rate among breast cancer patients with poor prognoses -- those with heavily pretreated metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Increased Bonuses Seen as Key in Pay-for-Performance Systems Larger bonuses appeared to result in more effective medical care of patients with common chronic illnesses, said the authors of a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• 'Young Blood' Clinics Shut Down After FDA Action Ambrosia Health has shut down its clinics that offered transfusions of plasma from persons aged 16 to 25 years after the FDA issued a statement saying benefits were not scientifically proven.
  WebMD Health News, February 2019
• ASBrS Calls for Genetic Testing for All Breast Cancer Patients The American Society of Breast Surgeons recommends genetic testing for all patients with breast cancer, not just those at highest risk for mutations.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• PCPs Discuss Cancer Therapy With Patients, Despite 'Gaps' About one third of primary care providers discussed breast cancer treatment decisions with their patients, a new survey shows -- but it's not really their job.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• What Advice Would You Give to Young Physicians? Physicians consider what to tell young doctors about choosing a speciality.
  Medscape Reader Polls, February 2019
• Medicare 911 Patients to Be Triaged by EMS in 5-Year Pilot The new project will allow ambulance teams to triage Medicare patients and take them to a doctor’s office or urgent care center if appropriate rather than to an ED.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Free Tuition for First Classes of Kaiser Permanente Med School The California medical school will open in the summer of 2020 and will begin accepting applications to its inaugural class this spring.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Invasive Group B Strep Rising Among Nonpregnant Adults Physicians should consider invasive GBS, experts say, as a new report shows there is a large, medically complex group of patients at risk for infection.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Osteoporosis Diagnosis, Care Suboptimal in Older Men Osteoporosis screening and diagnosis rates were low among veterans, particularly older veterans, men, and men with a prior hip fracture, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Primary Care May Reduce Mortality, But Fewer PCPs Available A higher density of primary care physicians is tied to greater life expectancy, yet the per capita supply of PCPs is declining, new data show.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Adolescent Cannabis Use Tied To Depression, Suicidal Thoughts Cannabis consumption during adolescence is tied to an increased risk for depression, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts during young adulthood, suggests a new meta-analysis of 23,300 participants.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Editor Resigns Following Retraction for 'Racist Characterizations' After the retraction of an article with 'racist characterizations,' the humanities editor of Neurology has resigned and its editor in chief has pledged to overhaul the journal's editorial processes.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Criminal Case Spurs a Rethink of Euthanasia for Mental Illness Amid the first criminal charges in a case of medically assisted death for mental illness, experts criticize the review process while others question the ethics.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Clinician Communication Key for Hypertension Control Clinicians should try to engage patients and consider the context of their daily lives to improve hypertension control, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Alert FDA OKs Triclabendazole for Tropical Disease Fascioliasis Fascioliasis (liver fluke infestation) is a waterborne and foodborne neglected tropical disease affecting an estimated 2.4 million people worldwide, with an additional 180 million at risk.
  FDA Approvals, February 2019
• Sepsis Death Common, Often Unpreventable Sepsis deaths were common, but most were unpreventable and related to underlying illness; an expert urges caution when interpreting results and calls for more research to improve sepsis care.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019
• Journal Retracts MD Article for 'Racist Characterizations' After facing sharp criticism from readers, the American Academy of Neurology's flagship journal has retracted an essay about a patient encounter that it acknowledged 'contains racist characterizations.'
  Medscape Medical News, February 2019