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• Should Healthcare Workers Wear Masks at Home? Wearing a mask at home, even when everyone feels fine, might reduce the spread of COVID-19, a study suggests. But some physicians wonder whether the costs outweigh the benefits.
  Medscape Medical News, June 04, 2020
• HCQ Fails to Prevent COVID-19 in Randomized Trial Additionally, side effects were more common among participants in the HCQ group than the placebo group. One expert says the results raise the question of whether some ongoing trials should stop.
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2020
• Leading Journals Sound Alarm on COVID-19 Studies Major medical journals are raising concern about the database underlying recent studies of patients with COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2020
• Claims of a Weaker COVID-19 Virus Disputed Italian public health officials and the World Health Organization warn there's no evidence to support claims that SARS-CoV-2 is weakening, as some Italian clinicians have reported.
  WebMD Health News, June 03, 2020
• ASCP 2020First-in-Class Antipsychotic Linked to Lower Cardiometabolic Risk A recently approved first-in-class antipsychotic appears to have fewer adverse cardiometabolic effects compared with placebo or standard care with risperidone, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2020
• Remdesivir May Benefit Moderately Ill COVID-19 Patients The results may not immediately affect the use of the drug, however, given current FDA guidance, limited supplies, and the challenges of administering an intravenous drug.
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2020
• ASCP 2020Ending Long-term Anticholinergic Use: It Can Be Done Ending the unsanctioned practice of long-term anticholinergic use to curb side effects linked to antipsychotics in patients with serious mental illness is feasible, safe, and improves quality of life.
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2020
• Vulnerable Groups Weigh Risks as Country Reopens For those already vulnerable to infection, staying away from sick people and being careful around germs has already been a way of life. But this pandemic has now taken the caution to a new level.
  WebMD Health News, June 02, 2020
• COVID-19 Update: Protecting Against Retaliation, Fighting Injustice These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2020
• COVID-19: New Group Stands Up for Clinicians Facing Retaliation The new nonprofit, named Beacon, aims to highlight and protect the legal rights of medical professionals who speak out about PPE supply and other matters of public concern related to COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2020
• Third Lawsuit Filed in Deaths at West Virginia VA Hospital Lawsuits filed on patient deaths over wrongful insulin injections at a W.Va. veterans hospital. Federal prosecutors are probing up to 11 patient deaths at the hospital; two deaths ruled homicides.
  Associated Press, June 02, 2020
• Coronavirus Tests Value of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine The coronavirus crisis has prompted accelerated use of some promising AI applications.
  Kaiser Health News, June 02, 2020
• What Are the Options for Training Contact Tracers? Hundreds of thousands of people — both clinicians and laypeople — have leapt at the chance to sign up for training.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2020
• COVID-19: Distancing Works, N95 Respirators Work Better A study found that wider physical distancing from an exposed person greatly reduces risk of transmission and that N95 masks, especially for healthcare workers, are more effective than other coverings.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2020
• Hashtag Medicine: Medical Twitter Confronts Racism Head On The death of George Floyd has rekindled an old conversation on social media about medicine's role in combating racism.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2020
• Scientists Question Data, Ethics, Findings of Lancet HCQ Study More than 140 scientists and physicians signed an open letter raising concerns about an observational analysis of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for COVID-19 recently published in The Lancet.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2020
• Docs' Group Confronts ICE Over 'Dangers of Detention' From COVID-19 Members of Doctors for Camp Closure have been protesting at ICE detention facilities around the country to draw attention to the plight of detainees during the time of COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2020
• CMSC 2020Telerehabilitation May Be Effective in MS Telerehabilitation is safe, may offer functional benefits comparable to those of outpatient rehabilitation for patients with MS and impaired mobility, and also saves time and travel costs.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2020
• Controversy Remains Over Corticosteroids in COVID-19 The most commonly invoked rationale for giving steroids in patients with severe COVID-19 is to modulate the destructive inflammatory immune response that occurs with advancing disease.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2020
• ASCP 2020Dietary Intervention Cuts Mood Swings, Other Bipolar Symptoms A high n-3, low n-6 fatty acid diet improved mood stability and reduced pain and irritability in patients with bipolar disorder.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2020