COVID Brain Changes Show Parallels With Alzheimer's Disease Findings may point to potential mechanism for brain fog in people with long COVID Feb 04, 2022
Mental Health Crisis Demands Better Coverage, Worker Pay, Experts Tell House Advocates argue for workforce incentives, peer involvement, and closing Medicare coverage gaps Feb 03, 2022
More Evidence for Prehab Before Cardiac Surgery One center's initial experience suggests good perioperative results Feb 02, 2022
When Strangers Deliver Bad News to Patients All too often, I end up giving prognoses to patients I barely know Jan 31, 2022
Multi-Arterial Grafting Inches Upward in Surgeon Adoption Learning curve holds strong in CABG technique Jan 30, 2022
Blood Biomarkers May Distinguish Dementia Disorders Plasma levels show diagnostic, prognostic performance in varying dementia types Jan 28, 2022
Mixing and Matching BP Meds? Consider the Implications for Dementia SPRINT analysis favors certain classes of antihypertensives Jan 28, 2022
Trial Data Confirm Heightened Risks With JAK Inhibitor May help patients and clinicians better weigh benefit against adverse effects Jan 26, 2022
More Flavonoids, Better Parkinson's Outcome Flavan-3-ols and anthocyanins consistently linked to lower mortality Jan 26, 2022
Medicare Patients Can't Get Their At-Home COVID Test Kits Covered -- Yet But CMS says it's working to provide that coverage Jan 25, 2022
Caution: Paxlovid Interacts With Many Heart Meds The Skeptical Cardiologist asks clinicians and patients to take note Jan 17, 2022
Death During Sex: Not Just an Old Man Thing But sudden cardiac death remains rare even for sexually active people with heart conditions Jan 12, 2022
Medicare Plans to Restrict Coverage of New Alzheimer's Drug Proposal would cover aducanumab (Aduhelm) in patients on qualifying clinical trials Jan 11, 2022
Novel Krill Oil Cuts Severe High Triglycerides Post-hoc pooled analysis of phase III trials favors omega-3 fatty acid formula Jan 06, 2022
Muddled Picture for Antidepressant as Osteoarthritis Pain Reliever Trial in primary care setting fails to confirm benefit seen in specialty clinics Jan 06, 2022
Alzheimer's Drugs Race to FDA After aducanumab, drug companies pivot to use the accelerated approval pathway Jan 01, 2022
FDA Approves Cholesterol-Lowering siRNA Therapy PCSK9 inhibitor inclisiran to become available in early 2022 Dec 22, 2021
Wide Racial Gap for Diabetes Tech Use Among Medicare Patients Insulin pump and CGM use significantly lower among black patients Dec 15, 2021
Gentler Regimen Leads to High Response Rate in Older Patients With B-Cell ALL One-year OS rate of 78% with fractionated inotuzumab ozogamicin exceeds 60% historical rate Dec 13, 2021
Post-Stroke Epilepsy Treatment May Influence Mortality All-cause death lowest in people taking lamotrigine Dec 13, 2021
Who Will Take Care of Our Aging Population? Compassion fatigue is hollowing out the elder care workforce Dec 10, 2021
Digital HTN, Diabetes Monitoring Program a Boon for Patients Program reports growth and better outcomes Dec 09, 2021
The U.S. Can Learn From the World's Salt Problem Most countries struggle to reduce sodium intake, but interventions abroad have helped Dec 06, 2021
Dementia Tied to Resting Heart Rate Findings persist even after accounting for cardiovascular disease Dec 03, 2021
Year in Review: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine development for older adults continued apace, virus roared back in kids Dec 03, 2021
Chemo-Free Regimen Highly Active in Older Mantle Cell Lymphoma Patients Overall response rate of 96% with ibrutinib-rituximab, but cardiotoxicity a possible issue Nov 29, 2021
The Right Ventricle Still Matters in LVAD Patients Right heart failure signaled trouble ahead in the Intermacs registry Nov 29, 2021
Should Doctors Be Embarrassed by TV's 'Dopesick'? No, but the Hulu series holds lessons for physicians about trusting pharma messaging Nov 26, 2021
Is Psychedelic Research Funding Starting to Shift? Once the province of philanthropy, industry and government sources show interest Nov 24, 2021
Was This Really Our Best Attempt at Step 1 Exam Reform? Shifting to a pass/fail system has unintended consequences Nov 23, 2021
Another Trial, Another PRP Flop in Osteoarthritis Fails to outperform saline in randomized trial Nov 23, 2021
Bisphosphonate Therapy and Fracture Prevention: How Long Does It Take? Meta-analysis determined minimum treatment time needed to see gains Nov 22, 2021
Another Study Confirms Gout Benefit With SGLT2 Inhibitors Gout risk reduction was significantly better than with DPP-4 inhibitors Nov 19, 2021
Let Ethics Guide Aducanumab Prescribing, AAN Says Don't rely on FDA approval alone to make best choices for Alzheimer's patients Nov 18, 2021
Mom's High BP Not a Driver of Offspring's Cardiometabolic Woes in Adulthood Mendelian randomization analysis supports greater role of environmental factors Nov 17, 2021
Jury Still Out on Lithium's Antisuicidal Effects Adjunct lithium offered no additional suicide protection for bipolar, depressed vets Nov 17, 2021
Microstent for Cataract Surgery Reduced Need for Glaucoma Meds Device lowers eye pressure by promoting fluid flow through Schlemm's canal Nov 17, 2021
Need for Liver Transplants Rising Sharply in Seniors Post-transplant mortality still higher versus younger patients, but improving over time Nov 17, 2021
