Medscape Medical News

• Pandemic Adds More Weight to Burden of Obesity in Children "Our nation's safety net is fragile, outdated, and out of reach for millions of eligible kids and caregivers," said an author of a new report.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• How the Navajo's Cultural Values Are Driving COVID Vaccinations COVID-19 has killed Native Americans at twice the rate of White Americans, underscoring the health inequities and deep-rooted distrust tribal nations have of federal government entities.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• ECTRIMS 2021 Rituximab More Effective Than Other MS Treatments? Rituximab reduced relapses and MRI activity more effectively than dimethyl fumarate, natalizumab, and injectable therapies in a recent study. Disability did not differ between treatments, however.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• ECTRIMS 2021 ECTRIMS/EAN Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination in MS Patients The statement concludes that COVID-19 vaccines are safe for patients with multiple sclerosis and that most MS patients gain the same protection as the general population. But there are exceptions.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• European Agency Supports Marketing of Abrocitinib for AD The oral JAK inhibitor is under review at the FDA for the same indication.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• FDA Panel Backs Second Shot for Those Who Got J&J Vaccine While the advisory panel felt the data supporting a booster was limited and unfocused, they unanimously backed a second shot for recipients of the J&J vaccine.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• MitraClip Failure: An Uncommon but Dire Occurrence An international study suggests an incidence in the single digits but poor outcomes in the double digits, including death, for patients with failed MitraClip procedures.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• ECTRIMS 2021 Melatonin Improves Sleep in MS Findings presented at ECTRIMS 2021 suggest the OTC supplement improves multiple sleep measures
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• Califf Eyed for Second Term as FDA Chief, News Reports Say News reports citing unnamed sources say President Biden may seek to put noted researcher Robert Califf back in charge of the US Food and Drug Administration.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• House: Racial Bias in Clinical Decision Support 'Unacceptable' Ways and Means report cites numerous examples of how these biases harm patients; professional societies divided on what to do about it.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• Half-Dose DOACs Cut Bleeding, Thrombus Risk Post-Watchman Implant The risks dropped off sharply after standard postprocedure antithrombotics were replaced by a half-dose DOAC given indefinitely without long-term antiplatelets in an observational study.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• AAP 2021 Kids in Foster Care Get Psychotropics at 'Alarming Rates' Misdiagnosis, overprescription, and frequent transitions to new doctors might be contributing factors, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• ASBMR 2021 High-Intensity Exercise, Not Pilates, Builds Bone in Older Women A high-intensity resistance and impact training program improved bone heath and function; a low-intensity Pilates-based exercise program improved function, but to a lesser extent, in a new trial.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• AAP 2021 Biomarkers May indicate Severity of COVID in Children Biomarkers detected in saliva samples could be potential indicators of disease severity in children with COVID, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• Sleep Problems in Mental Illness Highly Pervasive An inpatient psychiatric diagnosis over an individual's lifetime is significantly associated with poor sleep quality, results from the largest study of its kind show.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• Oncologist Recounts Difficulty of Mid-Career Move After 18 years at his first and only employer, oncologist Mikkael Sekeres, MD, decided it was time to move on. It wasn't easy.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• Female Docs Continue to Earn Less Than Male Peers: Survey Among all physicians, men earn 35% more than their female counterparts; pay gap among specialists is greater than that in primary care.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• Bill Clinton Hospitalized for Non-COVID Infection Clinton, 75, was admitted to the University of California Irvin Medical Center and was treated with IV antibiotics and fluids.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• Case Report: Lung Cancer Shrinks in Patient Using CBD Oil Dramatic tumor shrinkage is reported in a patient with lung cancer who declined standard treatment but ingested cannabidiol (CBD) oil long term.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021
• ASBMR 2021 Lumbar Epidural Steroid Jab Lowers Bone Formation in Older Women The extent and duration of the effects of a lumbar epidural steroid injection suggest that patients who receive multiple injections may be at particular risk for skeletal problems.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2021