Clinician Insights

CDC Says Recent Flu Season Mild, Maybe Owing to COVID Precautions The mild, mainly A(H3N2)-driven 2021-2022 influenza season may have been slowed by COVID-19 precautions, CDC reports.
News, August 08, 2022
How Do You Diagnose and Treat Cannabis Allergies? As cannabis use increases, so does the need to diagnose and manage cannabis allergies, researchers report.
News, August 05, 2022
How Do Alpine Air and Altitude Help Patients With Severe Asthma? Patients with severe and uncontrolled asthma may benefit from alpine air, the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology reports.
News, August 05, 2022
ADA 2022 2-Year Faricimab Results: 'Visual Gains With Fewer Injections' Vision improvements in diabetic macular edema with faricimab were similar to those with aflibercept, with fewer injections, at 2 years. This follows recent FDA approval based on 1-year trial results.
News, June 27, 2022
Deaths Rare in Tonsillectomy, but Some Children at More Risk Not many children die after tonsillectomy, but those who do are more likely to have a complex chronic condition, researchers report.
News, June 22, 2022
Milk Allergy Frequently Overdiagnosed Too many infants are misdiagnosed with milk allergy and don't need the formula they're prescribed, says a consensus report developed by experts without commercial ties to the formula industry.
News, June 21, 2022
Surgery During a Pandemic? COVID Vax Status Matters — or Not COVID vaccination may indicate a person's attitude toward risk taking and willingness to undergo surgery.
News, June 13, 2022
Wild Meat Markets Pose Disease Risk to People, Laos Study Finds Zoonotic diseases can spill over to people from markets selling infected wild animal meat. Can we prevent these?
News, May 25, 2022
Adolescents With Food Allergies Share Common Concerns Adolescents with food allergies have allergy-related beliefs and concerns that involve five themes that may influence how they manage their condition, researchers report.
News, May 23, 2022
Vitamins, OTC Drugs May Interact With HIV Antiretroviral Therapy OTC medications, food supplements, and other drugs may interact with antiretroviral therapy and harm people living with HIV, researchers in Denmark report.
News, May 20, 2022
What Do Ultrasound Images Find in Superficial Lumps and Bumps? The Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound offers illustrated clinical tips in a recently published paper to help diagnose and manage commonly identified masses.
News, May 12, 2022
Clinical Chest Images Power Up Survival Prediction in Lung Cancer Radiation oncologists can use CT chest images for more than radiation treatment plans, study suggests.
News, May 02, 2022
Many Ukrainian Doctors Affected by Russian Invasion Survey showed that US physicians oppose sanctioning of Russian colleagues by medical societies.
News, April 21, 2022
Can Gram Stains Guide Antibiotics for Pneumonia in Critical Care? Use of Gram stains to select antibiotics for ventilator-associated pneumonia offers similar clinical outcomes as guideline-based broad-spectrum treatment, study reports.
News, April 08, 2022
Hidden Formaldehyde in Products Linked to Allergic Reactions Hidden formaldehyde found in many cosmetics, healthcare products, and more may trigger contact allergy and allergic contact dermatitis, according to a clinical review update from Belgium.
News, March 31, 2022
Rare and Preventable: Painful Post-vax Shoulder Problems Bursitis and other painful shoulder problems that may arise after vaccination into the deltoid muscle are rare and preventable, researchers report.
News, March 23, 2022
Low Risk of Heart Attack After Eye Procedures, Study Finds Ophthalmologists do not need to routinely delay ophthalmologic procedures in their patients whose blood pressure is not well-controlled, according to study of Scandinavian patient registry data.
News, March 22, 2022
Unaffiliated Telehealth Doctors May Prescribe More Antibiotics During telehealth visits for acute respiratory infection, third-party acute-care doctors prescribed antibiotics more than twice as often as system-employed doctors, researchers report.
News, March 21, 2022
Opioid-Free Anesthesia Shows Benefit in Retrospective Studies Anesthesiologists report shorter hospitalization in two small studies, testing ways to reduce patients' exposure to opioids during pancreatic surgery.
News, February 28, 2022
How Do AERD Patients' Self-Reports Compare With Objective Tests? Patients with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease are good at determining their own symptoms and we should believe them, a study author says. The study also supports the validity of the questionnaires in research.
News, February 09, 2022

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