Geriatrics News

• 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
• Expanded Vaccine Rollout in US Spawns a New Set of Problems The rapid expansion of COVID-19 vaccinations to senior citizens across the U.S. has led to bottlenecks, system crashes and hard feelings in many states because of overwhelming demand for the shots.
  Associated Press, January 15, 2021
• Delicate COVID Vaccines Slow Rollout The short shelf life raises the stakes by forcing clinicians to anticipate the exact number of doses they'll need each day. If they don't get it right, precious stores of vaccine may go to waste.
  Kaiser Health News, January 15, 2021
• Feds Plead for Greater Use of Monoclonal Antibodies to Fight COVID The US Department of Health and Human Services is supporting three infusion sites but gave no indication it would offer any other assistance.
  Medscape Medical News, January 14, 2021
• The Next Likely COVID-19 Vaccine Has Its Advantages Pending phase 3 results and emergency use approval, the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine could significantly boost availability of vaccine doses against SARS-CoV-2.
  Medscape Medical News, January 14, 2021
• Hyperparathyroidism in the Elderly Appears Undertreated Fewer than a third of elderly Medicare beneficiaries who may benefit from parathyroidectomy because of primary hyperparathyroidism actually receive such treatment, according to a population-based cohort study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 14, 2021
• When Years of Published Work Are Built on an Error If she came clean, she knew that at least one of the articles would most likely be retracted and she'd have to live with a lasting mark on her and her team's record.
  Retraction Watch, January 14, 2021
• An Urban Hospital on the Brink vs the Officials Sworn to Save It Illinois and Chicago officials are trying to figure out how to stop a private company from closing a money-losing urban hospital in a poor, underserved Chicago neighborhood.
  Kaiser Health News, January 14, 2021
• Vaccination Problems Worst in States Hardest Hit by COVID Then it seemed the Grinch might have kept Santa Rick from his shot.
  WebMD Health News, January 14, 2021
• Some Independent Docs Finally Get Vaccinated, but Not Patients Private practice doctors and staffs start to catch up on their COVID vaccinations, but PCPs are still not being enlisted to vaccinate patients in many parts of the US, advocates say.
  Medscape Medical News, January 12, 2021
• Feds: Give COVID Vaccine to 65+ and Those With Comorbidities People ages 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions are eligible for vaccines, the CDC and HHS said. HHS Chief Azar said states that don't use vaccine will receive fewer doses in the future.
  Medscape Medical News, January 12, 2021
• Color-Imaging Endoscopy Improves Detection of Upper GI Cancer Color imaging with endoscopy improved the detection rate for upper gastrointestinal cancers in comparison with conventional white-light imaging in a randomized trial.
  Medscape Medical News, January 12, 2021
• Going Big: US Dispensing Shots at Stadiums and Fairgrounds States are moving on to the next phase before the first one is complete, making COVID-19 shots available to such groups as senior citizens, teachers, bus drivers, police officers and firefighters.
  Associated Press, January 12, 2021
• Orthostatic Headache? Consider Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension For many patients with debilitating headaches caused by spontaneous intracranial hypotension, the condition goes undiagnosed and untreated because of a lack of awareness about it.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2021
• When Packed Hospitals Cannot Handle Non-Covid Patients "This is the first time since I have been here that we've had a scenario where multiple hospitals, for longer periods of time, are experiencing some kind of shortages," said Cindy Samuelson.
  Kaiser Health News, January 11, 2021
• Distinct Signature in Breast Tumors From Black Patients New findings show a distinct molecular signature characterized by "exhausted" CD8+ T cells in Black patients with breast cancer, which may explain more aggressive disease.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2021
• Eye Changes May Identify Parkinson's Disease Researchers have identified changes in the eye in patients with Parkinson's disease that can be seen with noninvasive, inexpensive imaging equipment.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2021
• Illinois: First to Extend Health Coverage to Undocumented Seniors Amid a deadly virus outbreak that has disproportionately stricken Latino communities, Illinois recently became the first state to provide public health insurance to all low-income noncitizen seniors.
  Kaiser Health News, January 07, 2021
• Governors Scramble to Speed Vaccine Effort After Slow Start With frustration rising over the sluggish rollout of the vaccine, state leaders and other politicians around the U.S. are turning up the pressure, improvising and seeking to bend the rules.
  Associated Press, January 07, 2021
• Dexamethasone Harmful in Chronic Subdural Hematoma The steroid, which is commonly used as a treatment for chronic subdural hematoma, appears to be doing more harm than good in this indication, a new randomized trial has shown.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2021