Dental and Oral Health News

• Trump Pardons a Handful of Physicians on His Way Out One of those pardoned was sentenced in a $70 million Medicare fraud scheme.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2021
• 7 Ways President Biden Could Now Change Healthcare President Biden has spoken about the ways in which he could improve America's healthcare system. Now that he's in office, here's what he could do.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 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
• Toothbrush Disinfection May Protect Against COVID-19 Brazilian dentists propose a protocol for toothbrush disinfection as a measure to limit SARS-CoV-2 transmission in communal spaces.
  Medscape Medical News, January 14, 2021
• Should People Be Paid to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine? Some people have suggested paying US adults $1000 or more to complete the vaccinations to speed herd immunity. Others say that idea has ethical and practical flaws.
  Medscape Medical News, January 12, 2021
• HPV Throat Cancer and Oral Sex at Younger Age, Multiple Partners Engaging in oral sex at a younger age and having more partners in a shorter period were associated with higher risks of developing human papillomavirus (HPV)-related oropharyngeal cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2021
• Physician Harassment Common on Social Media, Study Suggests Nearly one quarter of physicians who are active online report being personally attacked for their comments on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2021
• Over Half of COVID Transmission May Occur via Asymptomatic People A modeling study suggests strategic testing of at-risk but apparently healthy individuals could help curb coronavirus spread, but maintaining current mitigation measures is imperative.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2021
• Is Poor Survivorship Care Driving High Second-Cancer Risk? Many new cancers are linked to modifiable risk factors such as smoking, obesity.
  Medscape Medical News, December 29, 2020
• Doctors Worry About Patients Reading Their Clinical Notes The Open Notes mandate that will let patients see all of a physician's clinical notes on their treatment is making some doctors anxious about the potential consequences.
  Medscape Medical News, December 28, 2020
• Jaw Necrosis Risk in Cancer Patients on Zoledronic Acid Varies With Dosing In patients treated with zoledronic acid for bone metastases, the risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw was associated with cancer type, oral health and dosing frequency, researchers found in a recent study.
  Reuters Health Information, December 24, 2020
• Scant Risk for SARS-CoV-2 From Hospital Air RNA from SARS-CoV-2 appears throughout hospitals, but viable viruses have mostly been found close to patients.
  Medscape Medical News, December 28, 2020
• Black Doctor Dies of COVID After Alleging Subpar Treatment Family physician Susan Moore sought help from fellow doctors in a Facebook video she made from her bed, alleging substandard care at an Indiana hospital.
  Medscape Medical News, December 24, 2020
• How Will You Talk to Patients About a COVID-19 Vaccine? A CDC advisory committee voted unanimously to include the recently authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 immunization schedules. The vaccine has also been approved in the UK and Singapore.
  Medscape Reader Polls, December 21, 2020
• Emotions Run High as Frontline Clinicians Get COVID Vaccine Medscape asked doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers what they were thinking as they received their shot. Here are a few of their answers.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2020
• Doctors' Funniest Zoom Mishaps Physicians share their most humorous and cringe-worthy moments during video meetings.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2020
• Is Your Practice Ready for a COVID-19 Vaccine? Following regulatory authorizations, healthcare workers are starting to get COVID-19 vaccines.
  Medscape Reader Polls, December 16, 2020
• ADA 2021 Standards Address Financial Hardship in Diabetes In the year of COVID-19, new ADA Standards include assessment of socioeconomic challenges, individualization of type 2 diabetes treatment, and advice on broader diabetes technology use.
  Medscape Medical News, December 14, 2020
• The 'Wondrous Map': Charting of the Human Genome, 20 Years Later From COVID-19 to prenatal diagnostics and precision medicine, genomics has slowly but surely moved into the clinic, and forever altered medicine. But many new frontiers lie ahead.
  Medscape Medical News, December 11, 2020
• Doctors Dating Patients: Love, Actually? A romantic or sexual relationship with a patient has always been taboo; are some physicians less dead set against it than in the past?
  Medscape Medical News, December 10, 2020