Internal Medicine News

• Americans' Trust in Science Now Deeply Polarized, Poll Shows It's the largest gap in nearly five decades of polling by the General Social Survey, a widely respected trend survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
  Associated Press, January 26, 2022
• Michigan AG Seeks to Probe Eli Lilly for High Insulin Prices Michigan's attorney general is accusing Eli Lilly and Co. of charging excessive prices for insulin medications used to treat diabetes.
  Associated Press, January 26, 2022
• Presence of Autoantibodies Most Predictive of Long COVID in Study A deep molecular dive into COVID-19 patients found that the presence of autoantibodies in peripheral blood at initial diagnosis was the chief of four risk factors predicting if a patient would experience long COVID.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• Berries, Red Wine Linked to Lower Mortality in Parkinson's Disease High intake of the antioxidant nutrients found in berries, apples, and red wine is associated with a reduced mortality risk in patients Parkinson's disease, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• CDC: COVID Cases Keep Dropping, but 'Milder Does Not Mean Mild' Despite declining national numbers, Americans should not lose sight of the ongoing public health crisis as hospitals remain overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, many of whom are unvaccinated.
  WebMD Health News, January 26, 2022
• 35% of Employers to Proceed With Vaccine Mandate, Poll Shows About 4% of polled executives said they're dropping their vaccine mandate, 29% are in a wait-and-see position, and 12% are less likely to impose a mandate now.
  WebMD Health News, January 26, 2022
• What Is Your Experience Using Telehealth? The COVID-19 pandemic forced many healthcare providers to rely on telehealth technology to provide clinical services to patients unable or unwilling to visit in person.
  Medscape Reader Polls, January 26, 2022
• Booster Shot Drive Falters in the US Americans are less accepting of booster shots than initial COVID vaccinations, a new poll shows, despite a steady flow of information showing boosters improve a person's protection against the virus.
  WebMD Health News, January 26, 2022
• Gastro Journal Issues Expressions of Concern on 40 Probiotic Articles The articles appeared in the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, the official journal of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) and date back to 2007.
  Undark, January 26, 2022
• Drug-Resistant Malaria Is Emerging in Africa. Is the World Ready? Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without better surveillance, it is hard to track the threat.
  Undark, January 26, 2022
• RAD 2021 Increased Dosing Can Benefit Overweight Patients With Psoriasis 'Weight may have an impact on pharmacokinetics and, therefore, on the clinical outcome of biologic treatment for psoriasis,' the authors commented.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• Medical Thrillers Raise Nearly $90K for Doctors Without Borders Richard Brown, MD, combined his love of writing with his passion for Doctors Without Borders by donating 100% of the proceeds of his self-published books.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• California Appears to Pass Peak of Omicron Variant Wave Over 15,000 people are hospitalized with coronavirus, a huge figure but well short of last January's peak of about 22,000 and half of what officials had feared.
  Associated Press, January 26, 2022
• China Has Passed US on Several Key Science Measures China's global patent share jumped to 49% while the US' share dropped to 10% in a decade. A new report from the National Science Board suggests strategies for how the US can regain ground.
  WebMD Health News, January 26, 2022
• Are Cancer Patients Better Off in a Clinical Trial? Many physicians believe that receiving treatment in a cancer clinical trial leads to better care and outcomes, but there is no strong evidence to support this idea.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• Doctor's Illegal Opioid Prescriptions Lead to 5 Deaths: Officials Alaskan family physician sentenced to 34 months in prison, probation; Texas hospital CEO and seven docs settle kickback allegations; practice administrator sentenced for fraudulent prescriptions.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, January 26, 2022
• More Than 1 in 10 People in US Have Diabetes, CDC Says According to the latest National Diabetes Statistics Report, a quarter of those with diabetes are undiagnosed and over a third of the US population has prediabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• High Rates of Obesity, CKD Found in Type 1 Diabetes Rates of obesity are as high in people with type 1 diabetes as in the general population, and rates of kidney disease are higher than in people with type 2 diabetes after adjusting for age.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
• 'Retinal Age Gap' Linked to Arterial Stiffness and CVD Risk Retinal age gap, defined as age predicted from the fundus image minus chronologic age, is associated with the arterial stiffness index and may be a novel biomarker for subclinical CVD.
  First Look, January 26, 2022
• USPSTF Says Evidence Still Lacking for AF Screening The updated statement is consistent with a 2018 statement, despite a slew of new trials including AF detected by consumer smart watches and smartphone apps.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2022