Family Medicine News

• Groups Strategize COVID-19 Vaccine Access for People of Color States that rank highly on COVID-19 vulnerability indexes, in particular, have fallen behind on vaccinations for high-risk groups that need them most.
  WebMD Health News, January 19, 2021
• NY Governor Explores Buying Virus Vaccine Directly From Maker Frustrated by the flow of coronavirus vaccine from the federal government, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday floated the idea of buying shots for New Yorkers directly from one of the vaccine makers, Pfizer.
  Associated Press, January 19, 2021
• Has This Fugitive Physician Evaded Justice?; More High court blocks plaintiffs from pursuing their claims; is binding arbitration a growing trend, and is it bad for doctor–patient relationships?; hearing loss surgery creates a lot of noise.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, January 19, 2021
• Coronavirus Deaths Rising in 30 US States Amid Winter Surge Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold.
  Associated Press, January 19, 2021
• Low Carb Diets Boost Diabetes Remission Rates, at Least Short Term Following a low-carbohydrate diet for 6 months increases type 2 diabetes remission rates by a third, but ongoing support and 'convenient solutions' are needed for long-term adherence, says expert.
  Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2021
• Type of Alzheimer's With Intact Memory Offers New Research Paths Patients with primary progressive aphasia-associated Alzheimer's seem to be more resilient to effects of neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, a new study shows.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2021
• California Urges Stop to 300K COVID-19 Vaccines After Some Fall Ill California's state epidemiologist is urging a halt to more than 300,000 coronavirus vaccinations using a Moderna vaccine version because some people may have had severe allergic reactions.
  Associated Press, January 18, 2021
• Repeated Ketamine Infusions Linked to Rapid Relief of PTSD In what investigators call the first randomized controlled trial of repeated ketamine infusion for chronic PTSD, the treatment was associated with significant symptom reduction after 2 weeks.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2021
• Further Warning on SGLT2 Inhibitor Use and DKA Risk in COVID-19 A cluster of cases of diabetic ketoacidosis in which there was no hyperglycemia supports recommendations that SGLT2 inhibitors be discontinued in patients with type 2 diabetes who become ill with COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2021
• Biden Unveils National 5-Point COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy The President-elect aims to set up 100 mass vaccination clinics by late February and use FEMA to mobilize thousands of workers to give vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2021
• More Transmissible Variant Could Dominate by March, CDC Warns Modeling predicts the US will see rapid growth of a highly transmissible new strain of SARS-CoV-2 first detected in the UK.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2021
• New Trump Administration Policies for FDA Under Fire The Trump administration's attempts in its final days to revise FDA policies have drawn criticism from watchdog groups and former commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2021
• Pandemic Screen Time: Will Blue Light Glasses Help? As people in lockdown spend more time staring at laptops and other digital screens, they're ordering more blue light glasses, despite a lack of conclusive evidence.
  WebMD Health News, January 15, 2021
• Billions of Years Old, Lithium Still Has a Promising Future The story behind "the most effective medication in psychiatry" is one of both serendipity and dogged persistence, but its utility is far from confined to the history books.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2021
• CES 2021 Smart Contact Lens Targets Vision Improvement The device, which is like a smartphone in the eye, took home an award at the year's biggest tech conference, but it's not quite ready for prime time.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2021
• In-Person K-12 Classes Don't Fuel COVID-19 Outbreaks, Study Says At the beginning of December 2020, COVID-19 cases in counties with in-person schooling were similar to the rates in counties with only virtual classes, CDC researchers wrote in the MMWR.
  WebMD Health News, January 15, 2021
• HHS Will Drop Buprenorphine Waiver Rule for Most Physicians HHS intends to expand use of buprenorphine in treatment for opioid use disorder by easing a requirement that has often been cited as an 'administrative burden.'
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2021
• FDA Welcomes Sotagliflozin Data for Heart Failure in Diabetes The FDA says data from two pivotal trials can be used to help support a new drug application for the dual SGLT1/2 inhibitor, according to a statement by Lexicon Pharmaceuticals.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2021
• Baby Gets Cancer From Mother During Birth: First Report For the first time, transmission of cancer via the birth canal has been documented: the mothers had cervical cancer, the infants later developed lung cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2021
• 5 Reasons to Wear a Mask Even After You're Vaccinated 'I honestly don't think I'll ever go without a mask at work again,' said Dr Eugenia South, faculty director of the Urban Health Lab in Philadelphia. 'I don't think I'll ever feel safe doing that.'
  Kaiser Health News, January 15, 2021