Diabetes & Endocrinology News

• Wearable Continuous Ketone Monitoring Appears Feasible A small study demonstrates efficacy of technology that could add to 'an ever-increasing array of new devices' for people with diabetes as well as 'those looking to optimize their metabolic health.'
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• NFK 2021 New Test Could Help Primary Care Docs Chart Kidney Disease A new proprietary prognostic tool surpassed conventional methods for flagging patients with type 2 diabetes who were at high risk for progressive renal dysfunction.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2021
• Beta-Blockers May Up Heart Risk for HIV Patients With Hypertension The use of beta-blockers as a blood pressure treatment could increase the risk of heart disease for HIV patients, according to an analysis of data from the US Veterans Health Administration.
  Reuters Health Information, April 20, 2021
• Alert FDA Approves Oral Contraceptive With New Estrogen The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new estrogen for the first time in more than 50 years.
  FDA Approvals, April 21, 2021
• Androgen Receptor Deficiency a Risk Factor for Asthma People with androgen insensitivity syndrome may be more likely to develop asthma, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• Severe Obesity Persists, Takes High Cardiovascular Toll "This research highlights the high cardiovascular toll exacted by continuing failure to tackle obesity, particularly among more socio-economically deprived populations," say study authors.
  Medscape Medical News, April 21, 2021
• Humana Health Plan Overcharged Medicare by Nearly $200 Million The Medicare Advantage company may face a record penalty over alleged billing errors.
  Kaiser Health News, April 20, 2021
• COVID Vaccine Makers Have More Than Boosters in the Works Vaccine developers are already coming up with new options to protect against COVID-19 no matter what happens next with the pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, April 20, 2021
• COVID Plus MI Confers Poor Prognosis; 1 in 3 Die in Hospital National registry data confirm the challenges and uniqueness of patients with STEMI and COVID-19, with atypical symptoms and 'very high' in-hospital mortality rates.
  Medscape Medical News, April 20, 2021
• Transgender Resident Speaks Up on Coming Out in Medicine The demands of residency are challenging enough without having to contend with coming out. With the support of her colleagues, Evelyn Carroll is now living life as her authentic self.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• NFK 2021 20% of Dialysis Patients Are Hesitant About COVID-19 Vaccine An early 2021 survey of a representative sample of 1515 US patients treated with hemodialysis showed that one fifth had some level of hesitancy about receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• Transgender Hormone Therapy Linked to Blood Pressure Changes Blood pressure elevations in transgender males and a subset of transgender females are seen before and soon after gender-affirming hormone therapy initiation.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• AGA Guidelines: Intragastric Balloons in Obesity Management For patients with obesity, the combination of intragastric balloon placement and lifestyle modifications may be preferable to lifestyle modifications alone, according to new guidelines.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• Pancreatic Cancer Surveillance in High-Risk: No Better Outcomes Surveillance of people at high hereditary risk for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma can lead to diagnosis at an earlier stage, but as yet there is no clear survival benefit, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• Eating More Fat May Boost Borderline Low Testosterone 'If somebody has low testosterone, particularly borderline, they could try increasing their fat intake, maybe on a Mediterranean diet, and see if that works,' the author of a meta-analysis suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, April 16, 2021
• FDA Panel Endorses Islet Cell Treatment for Type 1 Diabetes Voting 12-4 to support approval, panel members expressed concern about toxicity of long-term immunosuppression, particularly given the advances in diabetes technology that now offer improved control.
  Medscape Medical News, April 16, 2021
• Physical Activity at Leisure, Not Work, Tied to Health Benefits Data from a large cohort study add fuel to the controversy over whether occupational physical activities may worsen heart health and shorten lives.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• Oral Microbiome Linked to COVID-19 Diagnosis Oral microbial markers may be a potential diagnostic tool for COVID-19, researchers suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, April 14, 2021
• COVID-19 Vaccine Response Lower in Kidney Dialysis Patients Most dialysis patients respond well to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, but antibody levels are lower than those in healthy persons, shows the first study of its kind.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021
• HHS Proposes Overturning Title X 'Gag' Rule Reproductive health groups and clinicians said the administration's moves would restore care and equity and protect the physician-patient relationship.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2021