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• New Health Cybersecurity Rule: What Docs Should Know A proposed federal rule would require hospitals and physicians’ groups to beef up health cybersecurity measures to protect patient privacy and prevent ransomware attacks. Some changes could be expensive, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Key Updates in Early Breast Cancer From SABCS 2024   Key updates from SABCS 2024 in early breast cancer include the COMET study on DCIS recurrence, INSEMA trial on SLNB omission, and OlympiA updates on adjuvant olaparib, shared by Dr Harold Burstein.
  Medscape, January 09, 2025
• hMPV: Is There Cause for Concern? Reports of rising hMPV infections in China have attracted media attention, but experts say the virus poses low pandemic risk owing to widespread immunity.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• AI-Enhanced ECG Predicts Hypertension, Related Risks A new AI-ECG risk estimation model can predict the development of hypertension and flag patients who may require more monitoring.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• KRAS Mutation Types Shape Pancreatic Cancer Outcomes Researchers assessed the association of KRAS mutations in metastatic PDAC with the clinical outcomes and responses to first-line chemotherapy regimens.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Incentives Do Not Boost Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance A cohort study analyzed data from 15,273 men with prostate cancer to determine active surveillance rates at difference points in time.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• The Year’s Notable Guidelines: Highlights for Primary Care   Dr Neil Skolnik reviews key guidelines from 2024 that should not be missed by primary care clinicians.
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 08, 2025
• Study Identifies Risk Potential for Thousands Of Mutations Of a Cancer Gene Scientists have characterized the role of thousands of mutations in the BRCA2 cancer gene, findings that may help reassure worried patients about their cancer risk or guide...
  Reuters Health Information, January 08, 2025
• PSMA-PET Challenges Current Prostate Cancer Staging Researchers conducted a post hoc, retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of 182 patients with recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy, definitive radiotherapy, or salvage radiotherapy.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• History Repeats? Lead Pollution and the Roman Economy   A story hidden in the icy layers of the Arctic may have lessons for cognitive health in the modern era.
  Medscape, January 07, 2025
• Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round? Have sobering studies on alcohol caused physicians to drink less themselves or changed the way doctors counsel patients on booze? The answer is complicated.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Sjögren Subtypes Have Distinct Pathophysiologic Profiles Three distinct subtypes of Sjögren disease showed different cytokine profiles and interferon signatures.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• New Ideas on PsA Pathogenesis May Drive New Treatments Emerging evidence supports the argument that psoriatic arthritis arises from two pathways and that affected immune cells may become altered, leading to a worsening of symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Using AI to ID Osteoporosis: A Medico-Legal Minefield? Artificial intelligence technology has identified many more patients with osteoporosis than institutions can handle.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Study Reveals New Insights in Pneumonia Care for Seniors Neutrophil function was impaired, but glycolysis was unaffected in hospitalized older adults with community-acquired pneumonia and sepsis, showed a recent prospective study.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Alert Human Bird Flu Death in US: Public Health Analysis Continues Public health officials maintain that risk to general public remains low.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Meta-Analysis Finding of a Fluoride-IQ Link Controversial Review finds an inverse association and a dose-response link between fluoride and IQ; editorialists disagree on the results and conduct of the study.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• More Than Hives: Discussing Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria   Dermatologists discuss common roadblocks in communicating with patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria, who often search for a cause they can fix for a condition lacking in community resources.
  Medscape, January 03, 2025
• Medscape 2050: The Future of Medicine As Medscape marks its 30th anniversary, we are collaborating with physicians, scientists, and futurists to envision the future of medicine in the year 2050.
  Medscape, January 01, 2025
• Panel Offers Best Practice Statement for Microbiota Testing International experts who convened to regulate the “wild west” of currently available diagnostic tests found little evidence to support their use in clinical practice.
  Medscape Medical News, December 31, 2024