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• COVID-19: Telemedicine Gets Real, Real Fast Across Neurology In the face of COVID-19, neurologists working in stroke, epilepsy, dementia, and other subspecialties are tasked with a quick pivot from in-office patient visits to a new era of online consultations.
  Medscape Medical News, March 28, 2020
• HHS Investigating Complaints Over Ventilator Rationing in Disabled Advocates say that ventilator plans discriminate against people with mental and physical disabilities.
  Medscape Medical News, March 28, 2020
• FDA Approves Test That Can Detect Coronavirus in Minutes The US Food and Drug Administration granted the approval under its Emergency Use Authorization. Abbott said it will start distribution next week and will ramp up manufacturing to 50,000 tests per day.
  Reuters Health Information, March 28, 2020
• FDA OKs Emergency Use of Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19 Patients As the number of US patients infected with COVID-19 continues to rise, the FDA is facilitating access to COVID-19 convalescent plasma for use in patients with serious or life-threatening infections.
  Medscape Medical News, March 28, 2020
• High Anxiety in America Over COVID-19 Survey results show COVID-19 is affecting many Americans' mental health, which is not surprising. But one expert warns that if the pandemic goes on much longer anxiety levels could become much worse.
  Medscape Medical News, March 28, 2020
• Coronavirus Social: Patient Questions, Daily Dispatch, Infographics Here are some of the top-trending COVID-19 topics dominating the social media conversation among clinicians.
  Medscape Medical News, March 28, 2020
• Physicians Pessimistic Despite Increased COVID-19 Test Kits Physicians were concerned about the safety of their loved ones and themselves and pessimistic about how those outside of the medical community will respond to the pandemic, according to a survey.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2020
• Physicians Seek to Reassure Amid Hydroxychloroquine Shortage Concerns over shortages have prompted the American College of Rheumatology and othe groups to send a joint statement to President Trump and the nation's governors asking for continued availability.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2020
• More Evidence Points to Acupuncture's Benefit for Migraine Although research has shown little difference between manual and sham acupuncture, use of a nonpenetrating sham intervention in acupuncture-naïve subjects could explain a new study's positive results.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2020
• An Aspirin a Day Does Not Keep Dementia at Bay Daily low-dose aspirin as prevention therapy takes another hit, this time for not reducing risk of Alzheimer's disease or cognitive impairment in a large randomized study.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2020
• COVID-19 'Infodemic': Researchers Step Up to Stop the Spread Canadian scientists are researching ways of fighting the proliferation of misinformation about COVID-19, which is spreading almost as quickly as the virus itself.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2020
• The Week That Wasn't in COVID-19: 17 Days, Peak in 3 Weeks, Croc Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, March 27, 2020
• Medical Meetings May Be Forever Changed COVID-19 has caused medical conferences to be canceled this spring. Some regular attendees are expressing relief. Will this disruption lead to lasting changes?
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2020
• Coronavirus Social: Stay Home, PPE Help Here are some of the top trending COVID-19 topics dominating the social media conversation today among clinicians.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2020
• New Guidance on Early Med School Graduation Amid COVID-19 The committee has issued 'guiding principles' for medical schools considering early graduation for final-year medical students to increase staffing levels to handle COVID-19 patients.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2020
• COVID-19 and the Science of Social Distancing One expert suggests that if the virus wanes during warmer months, the best approach will be to practice on and off periods of social distancing.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2020
• Hospitals Face Cash Crunch in 60-90 Days Due to COVID-19: Report A modeling analysis based on hospital financial data finds that most hospitals will lose big bucks on COVID-19 treatments and canceled elective procedures.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2020
• Amid PPE Shortage, Clinicians Face Harassment, Firing for Self-Care Clinicians have been placed on leave or fired for protecting themselves against COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2020
• COVID-19: 'Striking' Rates of Anxiety, Depression in HCPs A significant proportion of healthcare workers treating patients exposed to COVID-19 have symptoms of depression, anxiety, and trouble sleeping.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2020
• Keep Calm: Under 25s With Diabetes Not Hospitalized Due to COVID-19 Reassuringly, COVID-19 in under 25s with diabetes doesn't seem to require hospitalization, early reports from global hotspots indicate. But the pandemic means new cases of type 1 diabetes are being missed.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2020