Conference News

A Pill for C difficile Works by Increasing Microbiome Diversity Freeze-dried human stool may offer advantages for the treatment of C difficile infections.
News, October 24, 2021
Low Rate of Follow-up Imaging After Aortic Dissection Repair Relatively few patients undergoing surgery for acute type A aortic dissection receive recommended imaging surveillance afterward, a new study suggests.
News, October 22, 2021
ECTRIMS 2021 Dimethyl Fumarate Versus Teriflunomide for Relapsing MS Time to confirmed disability worsening was longer in patients who received dimethyl fumarate, compared with those who received teriflunomide, in an analysis of real-world data.
News, October 22, 2021
EASD 2021 Estimating Insulin Resistance May Help Predict Stroke, Death in T2D Calculating the estimated glucose disposal rate as a proxy for the level of insulin resistance may be useful way to determine if someone with type 2 diabetes is at risk for having a first stroke, Swedish researchers have found.
News, October 21, 2021
ASRM 2021 COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Menstrual Cycles A survey of more than 12,000 women of reproductive age found that 1 in 3 had experienced changes to their menstrual cycles and symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
News, October 21, 2021
WCN 2021 Botox Cuts Frequency of Episodic Migraine, Need for Acute Meds Botox injections cut the number of days per month on which patients experience high-frequency episodic migraines for up to a year, new research suggests.
News, October 21, 2021
ECTRIMS 2021 Stem Cell Transplant Benefits in Secondary Progressive MS Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for the treatment of active secondary progressive MS is associated with better disability outcomes than other immunotherapies, a new Italian study suggests.
News, October 21, 2021
CHEST 2021 Sepsis Multiplies In-Hospital Mortality Risk in COPD Among patients hospitalized for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the risk for discharge to another facility or for death in hospital was significantly greater than for patients without sepsis.
News, October 21, 2021
WCN 2021 Antithrombotic Therapy Fails to Prevent Stroke in COVID-19 Anticoagulant and/or antiplatelet therapy with a variety of agents does not prevent acute ischemic stroke in elderly patients with COVID-19 and comorbidities, new research suggests.
News, October 21, 2021
ASRM 2021 Relugolix Side Effects in Fibroids, Endometriosis May Be Minimal Headache and hot flush occurred at similar rates with relugolix combination therapy or placebo, a study shows.
News, October 21, 2021
ASRM 2021 Racial Disparities Found in Treatment of Tubal Pregnancies Black and Latina women are 50% less likely to undergo a minimally invasive procedure to treat ectopic pregnancy compared with their White peers, research shows.
News, October 21, 2021
WCN 2021 Sleep Apnea Linked to Lower Stroke Mortality After Thrombectomy Obstructive sleep apnea is paradoxically associated with lower risk for mortality and in-hospital complications after thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke, new research suggests.
News, October 21, 2021
CHEST 2021 Comorbidities Larger Factor Than Race in COVID ICU Deaths? Although ICU mortality rates for Black patients were higher than for other racial groups, average length of stay was similar, suggesting that comorbidities may partly explain excess deaths.
News, October 20, 2021
ANA 2021 Smoking a 'Major Driver' of Worse Outcomes After TBI Results of a new study provide another reason to get patients to quit the nicotine habit and control other vascular risk factors.
News, October 20, 2021
ANA 2021 Positive Signal for Novel ALS Drug New top-line results for a novel drug suggest some success with the antisense oligonucleotide agent -- over time and if initiated early.
News, October 19, 2021
ANA 2021 DIY Nerve Stimulation Effective in Episodic Migraine Self-administered external trigeminal nerve stimulation is superior to sham stimulation in relieving pain for patients with episodic migraine, results from a phase 3 study show.
News, October 19, 2021
Global Guidelines for Managing Hypo- and Hyperparathyroidism Hypoparathyroidism and hyperparathyroidism guidelines developed by more than 100 global experts were presented at the ASBMR meeting and will be published next year, replacing 2014 and 2016 guidelines.
News, October 19, 2021
ECTRIMS 2021 Updated MS Guidelines Advocate Earlier, More Aggressive Treatment Updated European guidelines also include a recommendation for siponimod in progressive MS and more detailed information on drug use in pregnancy.
News, October 19, 2021
LUPUS and CORA 2021 Aspirin Lowered Preeclampsia Risk in Real-World Lupus Study A prospective, single-center study of pregnancies during 1995–2020 showed a reduced risk for preeclampsia among high-risk women with systemic lupus erythematous who received low-dose aspirin.
News, October 19, 2021
CHEST 2021 COVID-19 ICU Visit Restrictions Add to Staff Stress, Burnout Although recognizing the necessity of restricting visitors to the ICU during the pandemic, survey recipients reported negative effects on job satisfaction; more than half reported burnout symptoms.
News, October 19, 2021

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