Pulmonary Medicine News

• Alert FDA Rejects Piziotinib for Certain Types of NSCLC The drug was not approved for the treatment of patients with previously treated locally advanced or metastatic nonsmall cell lung cancer harboring HER2 exon 20 insertion mutations.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2022
• FDA Says Philips Filed 21,000 Reports on Bad Foam Aug-Oct The FDA on Wednesday said Philips filed 21,000 medical device reports in connection with faulty foam in its ventilation and sleep apnoea devices in the Aug-Oct 2022 period.
  Reuters Health Information, November 23, 2022
• Rhinitis Patients Report Symptomatic Medication Use A mobile app used to capture control of allergic rhinitis may favor those who are more tech savvy, say critics.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• WHO Plans to Rename Monkeypox to 'MPOX' The World Health Organization is planning to rename monkeypox, designating it as 'MPOX' in an effort to destigmatize the virus that gained a foothold in the US earlier this year.
  Reuters Health Information, November 23, 2022
• Your Patients Are Rotting Their Teeth With Vaping People who vape have a higher likelihood of developing tooth decay that could lead to cavities, a new study found.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• Updated COVID Boosters Offer Better Protection Than Original: US Study Updated COVID-19 boosters offer increased protection against new coronavirus subvariants in people who have previously received up to four doses of the older vaccine, US officials said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 22, 2022
• Factor Xa Inhibitors Tied to Interstitial Lung Disease in AF Use of factor Xa inhibitors was associated with a higher risk of interstitial lung disease in Taiwanese patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• Don't Call Me 'Dr', Say Some Physicians. Most Disagree Patients "untitling" physicians has become more common. Some doctors think it's a positive trend, but others feel that the honorific title helps reinforce the physician's medical knowledge.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• ACEP 2022 There's an App for That: Let Technology Do the Work for You How to sift through the social media, blogs, and references for what is useful in practice.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• Over Half of Targetable NSCLC Patients Miss Out on Correct Tx Most patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have tumors with actionable mutations, but two thirds of them are not receiving targeted therapy owing to gaps in clinical practice.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• Without Guidelines, Docs Make Their Own Long COVID Protocols Diagnosing long COVID is something of an art for doctors who, without any formal criteria, say they know it when they see it.
  WebMD Health News, November 22, 2022
• A Growing List of Musicians Sidelined Due to Long COVID A number of musicians and other entertainers have been severely debilitated as a result of long COVID.
  WebMD Health News, November 22, 2022
• A Post–Super Bowl Airplane Emergency When an airline passenger develops unexplainable life-threatening symptoms midflight, two physicians treat her while the clock ticks.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• Philips Recalls Some Previously Replaced Ventilators: FDA Statement Philips, which has been struggling with a major recall of ventilators, is recalling some machines it has previously replaced, according to an FDA statement.
  Reuters Health Information, November 21, 2022
• CHEST 2022 Study Supports Banning Probiotics From the ICU A large database study found an association between probiotics and increased risk of fatal bacteremia in the ICU.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• New Docs Find Both Fulfillment and Frustration in First Years Whether you just became an attending or have a few years under your belt, the newest generation of physicians speaks out about the good, the bad and the ugly within the medical field.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• ACR 2022 ACR, EULAR Roll Out Updated Antiphospholipid Syndrome Criteria A joint planning group proposes updates to 16-year-old criteria for classifying antiphospholipid syndrome.
  MDedge News, November 22, 2022
• Most Global Bacterial Deaths in 2019 Linked to Five Pathogens Worldwide, researchers estimate Staphylococcus aureus was linked to more than 1 million deaths, while four more pathogens were associated with more than 500,000 deaths each.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• Peru Reports First Severe Bird Flu Outbreak Peru has reported its first outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza as the disease swept through some wild pelicans, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Friday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2022
• Vaccines and Drugs in the Pipeline for RSV There are no approved vaccines and only one drug in the US for respiratory syncytial virus, a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms but can also lead to serious illness and hospitalization.
  Reuters Health Information, November 18, 2022