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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
• What’s the Best Approach for Sustained Weight Loss? With nutritional, pharmaceutical, and surgical options available for obesity, clinicians are being called upon to make decisions about how to best help their patients lose weight and keep it off.
  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
• Simple Text Reminders Help Increase Vaccine Uptake   Dr Maurie Markman discusses the importance of implementation research to address pragmatic questions.
  Medscape Oncology, 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
• China Discovers Cluster of New Mpox Strain Chinese health authorities said on Thursday they had detected the new mutated mpox strain clade Ib as the viral infection spreads to more countries after the World Health...
  Reuters Health Information, January 09, 2025
• Skills Lab: Assessing the Introduction and Methods Sections   Dr Bishal Gyawali discusses tips for reading a phase 3 clinical trial publication, focusing on the introduction and methods sections.
  Medscape Oncology, January 08, 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
• US to Build New Stockpile of Bird Flu Vaccine for Poultry The U.S. will rebuild a stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry that match the strain of the virus circulating in commercial flocks and wild birds, the Department of...
  Reuters Health Information, January 08, 2025
• Dietary Calcium Cuts Colorectal Cancer Risk by 17% The largest ever study on the link between diet and bowel cancer has confirmed a protective effect of dietary calcium.
  Medscape News UK, January 08, 2025
• World Animal Health Body Urges Tighter Bird Flu Controls After US Death More should be done to control the spread of bird flu among animals to avoid more cases in humans, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday,...
  Reuters Health Information, January 08, 2025
• Can GLP-1s Reduce Alzheimer’s Disease Risk? Caroline Messer, MD, shares how she prescribed a GLP-1 receptor agonist to a patient as possible low-risk prophylaxis against Alzheimer’s disease.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, 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
• Sports Injuries of the Hip in Primary Care   Bursitis or tendinopathy? FABER or FADIR? The Curbsiders share tips from an expert on how to assess and manage sport-related hip pain.
  The Curbsiders, January 07, 2025
• Making Sense of Mixed Messages on Drinking   Medscape’s Neha Pathak, MD, and George Koob, PhD, Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, break down the latest guidance on alcohol intake.
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 07, 2025
• The Year’s Hottest Topics in Pediatric Medicine As we head into 2025, Dr William Basco comments on 2024’s most important news for pediatric clinicians.
  Medscape Pediatrics, January 07, 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
• Drug Shortages: Does Canada Manage Them Better? Oncology drugs tend to “percolate to the top” of shortage lists that prioritize drugs of concern, said expert.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Hypermucoviscous K pneumoniae Shows Reduced Drug Resistance Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase production and carbapenem resistance were less prevalent in hypermucoviscous K pneumoniae strains than in non-hypermucoviscous ones.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025