Latest Residents News

• Eco-Anxiety and Patients' Need for Mental Health Support The effects of climate change are evident, but their consequences for mental health are not the same for everyone.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• 'Doesn't Fit Anything I Trained for': Treating Chronic Lyme Researchers, clinicians, and patient advocates at a national meeting weighed in on efforts needed to accelerate research on treatments for chronic illness associated with Lyme disease.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Can DASH Diet Reduce Liver Fat in Type 2 Diabetes? Shifting to a DASH diet was tied to healthier body fat distribution in patients with diabetes, especially in type 2 diabetes, a German study found.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Taper, Dose Down, Discontinue: Striving for Less Steroid Use Now in the 75th year since the first presentation on the clinical use of glucocorticoids, what consensus has been reached in sparing their use to avoid their many potential adverse effects?
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Mental Health and Diabetic Complications: A Two-Way Link An analysis of a national claims database found that mental health disorders and chronic diabetic complications were linked over the lifespan of those with type 1 or 2 diabetes.
  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
• Louisiana: Abortion Now Controlled Dangerous Substances Louisiana lawmakers have added mifepristone and misoprostol to the state's list of controlled dangerous substances.
  KFF Health News, July 25, 2024
• How the Gut Microbiome Might Influence Diabetes Risk The composition of gut microbes differed starkly between individuals with diabetes and those without, with 19 distinct species being linked to type 2 diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Why Millions Are Trying FDA-Authorized Alternatives Pharmacist Mark Mikhael has lost 50 lb over the past 12 months. He no longer has diabetes and finds himself at his ideal body weight with his cholesterol below 200.
  KFF Health 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
• 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
• ASRS 2024 Here's How to Have 'Greener' Intravitreal Injections Simple adjustments can significantly reduce environmental impact without compromising patient care.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• Germany Confronts the Looming Threat of Synthetic Opioids Germany's drug-related deaths have nearly doubled in 10 years, underscoring the need for a comprehensive national strategy to combat this threat.
  Medscape Medical News, July 19, 2024
• GRAPPA 2024 Psoriasis: Tissue Resident Memory T Cells Play Complex Role The mixed role of tissue resident memory T cells in psoriasis treatment has prompted a call for changing functionality rather than eliminating these cells.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• ADA 2024 As GLP-1 Demand Goes Up, Access and Coverage Go Down Experts debate the increasingly common conundrum of patients losing GLP-1 coverage — placing them at a risk of a reversal of the weight loss benefits.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• ASCO 2024 DLBCL: Tucidinostat Plus R-CHOP Improves Outcomes? In previously untreated "double-expresser" patients, combining tucidinostat with standard R-CHOP chemotherapy resulted in better complete response and event-free survival rates than R-CHOP alone.
  MDedge News, July 18, 2024
• The Nation's 911 System Is on the Brink of Its Own Emergency About 7 million people went roughly two hours with no 911 service. Such crashes have become more of a feature than a bug in the nation’s fragmented emergency response system.
  KFF Health News, July 18, 2024
• Push, Fail, Push Harder: Olympic Athletes Who Became MDs These Olympian athletes chose medicine as their next challenge. The keys to their success, they said, are the same skills that brought them to the pinnacle of sports.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• Beauty Bloggers Dominate TikTok's Sun Protection Content Beauty bloggers and consumers contributed to most of the content discussing sun protection and skin cancer on TikTok.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• SPD 2024 Consider Emergency Contraception for Teens With Acne There appears to be practice gaps in the prescribing of emergency contraception as well as combined oral contraceptives.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2024