Emergency Medicine News

• Alert Compounded Semaglutide Overdoses Tied to Hospitalizations The US Food and Drug Administration alerted clinicians, compounders, and patients about adverse events related to compounded semaglutide dosing errors.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Heat Waves: A Silent Threat to Older Adults' Kidneys Extreme exposure to dry and hot weather conditions increased the plasma creatinine and cystatin C levels in older adults, while young adults showed minor changes.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Inappropriate NSAID Prescribing Causing Avoidable Harm Prescribing NSAIDs to people at high risk of harm from them has cost more than 6000 years of good health and £31 million for the NHS over the past decade, a study found.
  Medscape News UK, July 26, 2024
• State Gun Laws Linked to Lower Youth Suicide Rates States with mandatory waiting periods for gun purchases or laws designed to prevent children from accessing firearms have lower suicide rates than states without such regulations.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• A Woman, a Tuna Steak, and Allergy-like Symptoms Scombroid poisoning resembles an allergic reaction and occurs after eating fish contaminated with histamine.
  Medscape News UK, July 26, 2024
• Slow-Release Buprenorphine Safe in Mild OUD Withdrawal Extended-release buprenorphine medication was deemed safe for patients with mild opioid withdrawal.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• A Less Invasive, Often Overlooked Option in Cardiac Surgery Though not widely used, sutureless valves have unique strengths that can be a popular option for people who want a less invasive surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Physicians Cite Barriers in Addiction Care: Study Reveals An international research review identifies multiple reasons why doctors say they aren't able to treat substance abuse, including lack of faith that interventions will work.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Introducing: A New Way to Get Teens Mental Health Care Pediatric mental health urgent care centers offer alternatives to costly and lengthy emergency department visits.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Treat Heart Failure More Like Cancer Heart failure should be handled more like cancer — with aggressive early treatment — targeting the cause of the disease, not just the symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• New PCSK9s Nearing Market Will Help Meet Cholesterol Targets Different formulations and dosing schedules are expected to help many more patients reach LDL goals.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• US Drug Industry Middlemen Defend Business Model Amid Accusations Of Raising Patient Costs U.S. pharmaceutical industry middlemen defended their role in the healthcare system during a Congressional hearing on Tuesday after committee members accused them of pushing...
  Reuters Health Information, July 23, 2024
• The Case of the Drunken Teetotaler Episodes of somnolence and lethargy with recurring alcohol intoxication tormented a 50-year-old woman until the diagnosis of the rare auto-brewery syndrome was considered.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• How Drones May Narrow Emergency Response Times Starting in September, if someone in Clemmons, North Carolina, calls 911 to report a cardiac arrest, the first responder on the scene may be a drone.
  KFF Health News, July 23, 2024
• Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Doctor at the Olympics? Team USA relies on a group of physician volunteers to care for athletes. For them, getting to the Games takes flexibility, an ego-ectomy, and maybe even mad vegetable-chopping skills.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• AIDS 2024 Remembering HIV Leaders Shot Down in Plane HIV researchers and activists were killed when a missile hit their passenger airplane over Ukraine 10 years ago in the deadliest shoot-down incident to this day.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• 'Alarming' Rise in Mental Health Admissions Involving Meth Mental health hospitalizations in people with concurrent methamphetamine use increased 10-fold over 12 years, a trend researchers characterized as "alarming."
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• SPD 2024 Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: Be Aware of Cutaneous Signs The cutaneous manifestations of Munchausen syndrome by proxy are complex, but pediatric dermatologists can play an important role in their identification.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• Ask Teenage Boys If They Use Muscle-Building Supplements Boys and young men are especially likely to use muscle-building supplements, which may be harmful or provide no benefit.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• Adjusting Opioid Prescriptions After ED Can Reduce Misuse Half of patients take five or fewer tablets in the 2 weeks after leaving the emergency department for a new pain condition, data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024