Internal Medicine News

• Long-term Depression May Hasten Brain Aging in Midlife Elevated depressive symptoms are associated with an additional brain age of nearly 3 years, new research suggests.
  MDedge News, February 03, 2023
• As Long-term Care Staffing Crisis Worsens, Who Can Fill the Gaps? The industry has long relied on immigrants to bolster its ranks, and they’ll be critical to meeting future staffing needs. But as beds fill, policymakers are slow to open new pathways for foreign workers.
  Kaiser Health News, February 03, 2023
• ChatGPT's AI Could Help Catch Alzheimer's Early The AI everyone's talking about identified Alzheimer's 80% of the time by analyzing people's speech.
  WebMD Health News, February 03, 2023
• Bacterial Vaginosis Linked With Persistent HPV Infections Studies indicate that HPV infections persist in cases of vaginosis, resulting in the appearance of epithelial lesions.
  Medscape Medical News, February 03, 2023
• Boosters Reduce COVID Deaths in Patients With Multimorbidity Additional studies are needed for accurate booster-dose timing as new variants emerge, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, February 03, 2023
• Longer Diabetes Duration Links With Increased Heart Failure Prospective data from nearly 24,000 people with diabetes showed that longer diabetes duration significantly linked with an increased heart failure incidence.
  Medscape Medical News, February 03, 2023
• More Data Back Guillain-Barré Risk With Janssen COVID Shot Observed cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome after receipt of the Janssen shot were two to three times greater than background rates within 3-6 weeks of vaccination, new US surveillance data show.
  Medscape Medical News, February 03, 2023
• Physicians React: 'Incompetence in Medicine Has No Age Limit' Can a 100-year-old doctor safely practice medicine? Should older doctors be subject to cognitive testing? Here's what your colleagues are saying.
  Medscape Medical News, February 03, 2023
• Almonds May Be a Good Diet Option Almonds might affect appetite during a weight loss diet and may assist with weight management in the long term.
  Quick Take, February 03, 2023
• Herbal Combination Tames Active Ulcerative Colitis: Study Derivatives of an intensely yellow spice and an intensely blue dye combined to resolve active ulcerative colitis in a small, randomized trial.
  MDedge News, February 02, 2023
• Accelerated Pacing a Possible Strategy for HF With Preserved EF? A study challenges the dogma of beta-blockers for HF with preserved ejection fraction. For now, the strategy might only be for HFpEF patients already with pacemakers.
  Medscape Medical News, February 02, 2023
• The Future of At-Home Testing: Flu, RSV Rapid Tests Are Coming The FDA says it is confident that at-home rapid tests like those for COVID-19 are forthcoming for the flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
  WebMD Health News, February 02, 2023
• Exercise Halves T2D Risk in Adults With Obesity "Physical exercise combined with diet restriction has been proven to be effective in prevention of diabetes."
  MDedge News, February 02, 2023
• Positive Test No Longer Required to Get COVID Antivirals The FDA announced the changes Wednesday in letters sent to the drugs' manufacturers, Pfizer and Merck.
  WebMD Health News, February 02, 2023
• Pandemic Pregnancy-Linked Deaths Up 35% From 2019 Pregnancy-associated deaths, including drug-related deaths and homicide, were up 35% in 2020, compared with prepandemic 2019, new research indicates.
  MDedge News, February 02, 2023
• Cognitive Testing for Older Drivers: Is There a Benefit? A mandatory cognitive screening policy targeting older drivers appeared to lower car crashes in Japan; but experts from other countries caution against ageism in designing such policies.
  MDedge News, February 02, 2023
• Decoding Endometriosis: Recent Research Fosters Hope Although the disease afflicts at least 1 out of every 10 women, endometriosis remains a conundrum for patients and their physicians.
  MDedge News, February 02, 2023
• Massive Rise in Drug Overdose Deaths Driven by Opioids The drug overdose death rate in the United States climbed nearly 400% from 2001 to 2021, with much of the increase occurring in the last 2 years, the National Center for Heath Statistics reports.
  MDedge News, February 02, 2023
• Insurance Giant's Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant wouldn't pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer's hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
  ProPublica, February 02, 2023
• 'Sighing' Tops Mindfulness for Reduced Stress, Improved Mood Cyclic sighing, which emphasizes prolonged exhalations, is more effective at improving mood and reducing stress than mindfulness meditation, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, February 02, 2023