Medscape Medical News

• IBD Appears More Prevalent in Men Who Have Sex With Men There are several hypotheses around what might account for this differing prevalence, but they require additional studies to confirm, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• SMART-CHOICE 3-Year Results Support Dropping Aspirin After PCI Shortening dual antiplatelet therapy duration and continuing with a P2Y12 inhibitor alone was associated with a similar rate of ischemic events but less bleeding than prolonged DAPT after 3 years.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Alert Class I Recall of LifeSPARC Advanced Circulatory Support System A software malfunction may cause the system's controller to wrongly enter critical failure mode causing the pump to stop working; 66 complaints and 2 injuries have been reported.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• CMS Spent Billions on Meds Without Confirmed Benefits OIG Says The Medicare and Medicaid programs spent more than $18 billion over 3 years on medications for which there was no proof of a significant clinical benefit, a new federal report shows.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• EADV 2022 Data Show Lebrikizumab Atopic Dermatitis Effects Maintained Lebrikizumab shows good long-term efficacy and reasonable safety in patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis according to the 52-week results from the phase 3 ADvocate1 and ADvocate2 trials.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• EASD 2022 Strong Link Found Between Enterovirus and Type 1 Diabetes Relationship is particularly high within 1 month of type 1 diabetes onset, suggesting potential preventive role for vaccination or antivirals.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Has COVID Swayed the Rise in Pneumococcal Disease in Spain? An increase in the use of two types of antibiotics to treat COVID-19 may have contributed to a rise in antimicrobial-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Hormones' Impact Described in Transgender Rheumatology Patients Gender-affirming hormone therapy does not need to be a strict contraindication in transgender patients with rheumatic disease, an author of a new case series and systematic review said.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• EASD 2022 Improve Diagnosis of Type of Heart Failure Common in Diabetes Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is common in people with type 2 diabetes but is often hard to recognize. Treatments newly proven to be effective make diagnosis an imperative.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Gender-Based Violence Is a Cardiovascular Risk Factor Gender-based violence not only has psychological effects, but can also damage the heart, as a cardiologist reported at a recent conference.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Sex Differences Seen in Inflammatory Arthritis Healthcare Use Women’s higher risk of conditions such as osteoarthritis and pain and fatigue may help to explain why overall healthcare resource use was higher in female patients with inflammatory arthritis.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• ESMO 2022 I Am Not Fine: The Heavy Toll Cancer Takes Everyone — patients, caregivers, nurses, doctors — is affected by the burden of cancer, no matter the side of the fence they're on.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• EADV 2022 BREEZE-AD-PEDS: First Data for Baricitinib in Childhood Eczema The first pediatric trial of baricitinib for childhood eczema suggests that symptoms improve, and the safety profile is similar to that seen in adults.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Home-Based Palliative Care Improves Heart Failure Outcomes Patients with chronic heart failure who got palliative care at home were almost 50% more likely to die at home than in the hospital, compared with patients who received usual care
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• Early Data Suggest Vaccine Protects Against Monkeypox People who received a single dose of the vaccine were 14 times less likely to be infected with monkeypox virus, but the findings come with caveats.
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2022
• What Makes Some Infections Asymptomatic? Infections that kill many people can be entirely asymptomatic in others. What accounts for the different responses?
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2022
• Why Private Practice Will Always Survive Although the majority of physicians are employed, many doctors are leaving employment to start a private practice. Seven physicians talk about why they chose private practice over employment.
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2022
• Similar Outcomes With Hearts Donated After Circulatory Death Similar short-term clinical outcomes were achieved with hearts donated after circulatory death to those after brain death, and these could potentially increase the donor pool by 30%.
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2022
• Could Your Patients Benefit? New Trials in Noncolorectal GI Cancer Several studies in noncolorectal GI cancers have started enrolling recently. Here's the 411 on those trials.
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2022
• Physiatrist Group Issues First Guidelines for Long COVID in Kids The American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation issued two statements on how to assess and treat long COVID in kids, and to do the same for long COVID-related autonomic nervous system problems.
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2022