[ad_1] Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The federal government this week will begin cutting back on the anti-COVID-19 antibody treatments it ships to states, and doctors will no longer get paid for providing COVID-19 care for the uninsured, as the nation runs out of money to…
[ad_1] According to the Spanish Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (SEGO), dysmenorrhea may affect at least one third of females of reproductive age. However, coming up with an exact figure is difficult, “especially because pain has come to be considered as just part of having your period, and so many girls and women bear this pain for…
[ad_1] Discontinue use of back braces and cervical collars when possible and provide early surgical stabilization when indicated. These are a few recommendations from updated guidelines on the early treatment of spinal injuries recently released by the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS’) Trauma Quality Programs. The 87-page document covers the initial spine evaluation, classification, and…
[ad_1] Patients who have had a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) of atherothrombotic origin and have high triglyceride levels are at increased risk of having further cardiovascular events, including a recurrent stroke, even if they are taking statins, a new study shows “Hypertriglyceridemia drives the residual risk of further vascular events in patients with…
[ad_1] Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. COVID-19 infection appears to significantly raise the risk for diabetes by about 40% at 1 year, indicate new data from a very large Veterans Administration population. “If patients have a prior history of COVID-19, that’s a risk factor for diabetes…
[ad_1] Morton J, MD, a 68-year-old cardiologist based in the Midwest, saw things become dramatically worse when his nine-physician practice was taken over by a large health system. “Everything changed. My partners and I lost a lot of autonomy. We had a say — but not the final say-so in who we hired as medical…
[ad_1] Differing state regulations and a paucity of research has made it difficult to develop consensus guidelines for the use of cannabinoids in treating drug-resistant epilepsy. A recent review article draws from existing clinical trials and clinical experience in New South Wales, Australia, to fill this gap with interim guidance for both pediatric and adult…
[ad_1] Pfizer is voluntarily recalling some antihypertensive medications because of unacceptable levels of a potential carcinogen, the company announced. The affected products are quinapril HCI/hydrochlorothiazide (Accuretic) tablets that Pfizer distributes, and two authorized generics, quinapril plus hydrochlorothiazide and quinapril HCI/hydrochlorothiazide, distributed by Greenstone. The drugs have been withdrawn because of the presence of nitrosamine, N-nitroso-quinapril. “Although long-term ingestion of…
[ad_1] The use of an electronic clinical decision support tool called “ePNa” reduced severity-adjusted, 30-day, all-cause mortality by 38% across 16 community hospitals in Utah compared with predeployment levels, a 3-year, pragmatic, cluster-controlled study shows. “We designed the ePNa specifically to require minimal input from the clinician so everything it does is already in the electronic…
[ad_1] Five international cardiac surgery associations have banded together to address “substantive concerns” regarding the recently updated Valve Academic Research Consortium 3 (VARC-3) clinical endpoint definitions for aortic valve research. The VARC-3 update was a multidisciplinary effort that included more than a dozen new or modified definitions for use in transcatheter and surgical aortic valve…