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Long COVID Case Study: Persistent Hormone Deficiencies
'It might be worthwhile to screen for endocrine dysfunction in patients with...persistent symptoms after their recovery from acute [COVID]...
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Children and COVID: ED Visits and New Admissions Change Course
The prolonged rise in ED visits and new admissions over the last 5 months, which continued even through late spring when cases were declining,...
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PAs React: What Fortifies or Tears Down Their Job Satisfaction?
Here's what your colleagues are saying about how COVID affected their satisfaction, whether they feel respected, and whether they have a healthy...
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What Ketamine and Psilocybin Can and Cannot Do in Depression
Psychedelic drugs seem to offer hope as therapy for chronic depression, for which there have been few recent successes. How well do these drugs...
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Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19
She tested positive while vacationing at Kiawah Island in South Carolina with her family, including President Joe Biden. WebMD Health News
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LGBTQ Groups Denounce Florida Plan to Limit Transgender Care
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration filed the new rule this month, and it is set to take effect Aug. 21, according to online records....
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Black Americans' High Gout Rate Stems From Social Causes
Primary care providers need to address disparities through more comprehensive care and referrals to rheumatologists. Medscape Medical News
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Clinics in Neighboring States Team Up on Abortion Care
This partnership between Planned Parenthood organizations could be a model as dozens of abortion clinics close across the US. Kaiser Health News
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Nafis Sadik, Women's Health and Rights Champion, Dies at 92
Nafis Sadik was the architect of a groundbreaking program which recognized for the first time that women have the right to control their...
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How Nonadherence Complicates Cardiology, in Two Trials
Nonadherence prevents patients from achieving treatment benefits, but it also complicates trial interpretation, suggests subanalyses of MASTER DAPT...
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Treating the Growing Population of Centenarians
Less can be more in caring for the post-100 set. Medscape Medical News
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Mechanistic Link Between Herpes Virus, Alzheimer's Revealed?
Varicella zoster virus infection may activate dormant herpes simplex virus causing neuroinflammation and accumulation of Alzheimer's...
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Physician Mothers and the Breastfeeding Challenge
Doctors who need to pump breast milk while working face numerous problems ― and inconsistent support ― when returning from maternity leave....
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Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks Improve Fracture Pain
The ultrasound-guided approach shows benefits in hip fracture-related pain over standard anesthesia, with some caveats. Medscape Medical News
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Ultrasound Helps Predict Gout Flares Over the Next Year
Ultrasound findings of urate deposits and inflammation may predict gout flares over the next year, researchers in Italy and the UK report....
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New Biomarker Flags VTE Risk in COVID-19 Patients
New findings point to a biomarker even more sensitive than D-dimer in detecting risk for VTE in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Medscape...
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Annual PSA Screening Important for Black Men
The findings could help inform screening discussions with Black men. Medscape Medical News
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AMA Launches Screening Effort for STIs, Other Infections
Citing fewer visits for preventive services during the pandemic, the AMA is creating a toolkit for physicians to help identify patients with HIV,...
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AML's Seasonal Peak Suggests Viral or Environmental Etiology
The finding that most diagnoses of acute myeloid leukemia are made during January raises the possibility that the cancer results from infectious or...
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Specific Risk Factors Predict Quality-of-Life Outcomes in MS
Certain risk factors can increase the odds of poor physical and mental quality of life decades after a patient receives a multiple sclerosis...
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Pediatricians at Odds Over Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Kids
A row has broken out between the American Academy of Pediatrics and some of its members over what the latter see as the organization's refusal to...
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Oncologists' Wealth and Debt: COVID Had Little Impact
Incomes rose by 2% over last year's, suggesting a recovery from COVID restrictions. Overall, the pandemic appeared to have little impact on wealth,...
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Convalescent Plasma Not Advised for Most Hospitalized With COVID
“CCP is most effective when transfused with high neutralizing titers early after symptom onset.” MDedge News
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Treating Frail Patients Requires 'Precision Gerontology'
While frailty is a common condition in older adults, its heterogeneous nature makes management more complex. Medscape Medical News
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New Blood Biomarker to Detect Early Dementia?
A unique ratio of metabolites reliably distinguished blood samples of early-stage Alzheimer's patients from controls. Medscape Medical News