Neurology News

• AES 2021 Optimal Epilepsy Care Extends Well Beyond Managing Seizures Patients with epilepsy, especially those in certain racial subgroups, often deal with numerous other physical and psychiatric conditions, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2021
• Blood Pressure Control Worsened During COVID Pandemic Increases in BP among US adults during the COVID-19 pandemic could signal a looming increase in future cardiovascular disease mortality, researchers warn.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2021
• AES 2021 New Insight Into Psychogenic Seizures in Teens Adolescent girls with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures are bullied and harassed at school – by fellow students and staff.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2021
• Apixaban Outmatches Rivaroxaban for VTE in Study These real-world findings may guide selection of initial anticoagulant therapy, according to authors of the study.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2021
• Video Teleconferencing as Good as In-Person for Some Conditions Video teleconferencing works best for monitoring patients with chronic conditions, according to the author of a new paper.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2021
• Giant Cell Arteritis Fast-Track Clinics Make Inroads into US Fast-track clinics are using vascular ultrasound to streamline diagnosis of giant cell arteritis, but the United States has a way to go to catch up to Europe.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2021
• Higher Resting Heart Rate Tied to Increased Dementia Risk An elevated resting heart rate may be an independent risk factor for dementia and accelerated cognitive decline in older adults.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2021
• Advocating for Children's Health, One Page at a Time Although not a household name, the nonprofit Reach Out and Read has been advocating for childhood literacy for over three decades now by partnering with physicians.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2021
• IDF 2021 IDF Atlas: 1 in 10 Adults Worldwide Now Has Diabetes New edition includes data on prevalence, mortality, and diabetes expenditures, with new sections on adult-onset type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes in youth, and the impact of COVID-19 on diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2021
• Online Reviews Most Important Factor in Choosing a Doctor: Survey Consumers now use online ratings and stars more than provider referrals or any other factor when they're shopping for a doctor, per a new Press Ganey poll.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2021
• Specialists Think It's Up to the PCP to Recommend Flu Vaccines Only 45% of patients with chronic illnesses receive an annual flu shot. Vaccine recommendations from specialists could be the answer.
  Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2021
• AES 2021 Nonmotor Seizures Delay Diagnosis of Focal Epilepsy Delays in diagnosis of focal epilepsy are greater after nonmotor seizures, especially in children in comparison with adults, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2021
• Alert Class I Recall of Percutaneous Thrombolytic Device Arrow-Trerotola over-the-wire 7FR PTD kits are being recalled because the orange inner lumen of the catheter's tip may separate from the basket causing injury.
  News Alerts, December 06, 2021
• AMA: Congress Needs to Stabilize Medicare Payments to Docs Medicare physician fee spending fell $13.9 billion, or 14%, across all states and specialties amid pandemic; further cuts could hurt nation's doctors, says organization.
  Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2021
• Cardiologist Positive for Omicron After London Conference An Israeli cardiologist tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 after attending PCR London Valves, raising questions about the safety of in-person meetings just as they were restarting.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2021
• Rituximab Better Than Natalizumab for MS Relapses? Although rituximab was consistently linked to better relapse outcomes vs natalizumab in new research, outcomes did not differ between dimethyl fumarate and fingolimod.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2021
• Childhood Metabolic Abnormalities Linked to Adult Psychiatric Symptoms Metabolic and immune abnormalities seen in nearly 15,000 UK children aged 9 years linked with psychiatric symptoms they later showed as young adults.
  First Look, December 03, 2021
• Bedside Tool May Flag Brain Dysfunction in the Critically Ill Noninvasive diffuse correlation spectroscopy used to measure cerebral blood flow may be a useful bedside tool to identify neuronal dysfunction in critically ill patients, preliminary research suggests.
  First Look, December 03, 2021
• RSNA 2021 Impaired Brain Connections Linked to Autism The microstructure of the brain's white matter in adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder differs from that of neurotypical people.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2021
• RSNA 2021 Older Anticoagulants Linked to Brain Hemorrhage After Trauma Consider repeat head CT scans for trauma patients who are taking any anticoagulants or antiplatelet medications concurrently with aspirin, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2021