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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
• MRI-Invisible Prostate Lesions: Are They Dangerous? MRI-invisible lesions are real. Experts debate what these lesions really mean for patient outcomes and care.
  Medscape Medical News, 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
• How Often Do Radiation Plans Need Peer Review Changes? A meta-analysis found that peer reviews in radiation oncology led to recommendations to change treatment plans in more than one in four patients.
  Medscape Medical News, 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
• 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
• 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
• Preoperative Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases Shows Promise Preoperative stereotactic radiosurgery to treat brain metastases resulted in low rates of local recurrence, radionecrosis, and nodular leptomeningeal disease.
  Medscape Medical News, January 06, 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
• Durvalumab Is Not Superior to Cetuximab in Head, Neck Cancer Durvalumab did not improve outcomes compared with cetuximab in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who are ineligible for cisplatin, new findings indicate.
  Medscape Medical News, December 31, 2024
• MRI-Guided SBRT Cuts Long-Term Toxicities in Prostate Cancer The MIRAGE trial highlighted how MRI-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy with tight margins can reduce the long-term side effects of radiotherapy in men with localized prostate cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, December 30, 2024
• Dispelling the Concussion Dogma   The Curbsiders consult a concussion expert to find out how to best promote recovery after head injury.
  The Curbsiders, December 23, 2024
• QOL With Shorter RT Equal to Standard in Endometrial Cancer Researchers compared QOL and other outcomes between patients with endometrial cancer who took short-course adjuvant VCB and those who received standard of care options.
  Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2024
• Dec 20 2024 This Week in Cardiology   Listener feedback, multiple studies in AF ablation, a DANISH trial substudy of ICDs in NICM, and more data on eye complications of GLP-1 agonists are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, December 20, 2024
• CT Timing Affects Injury Assessment in Pediatric Trauma Positive CT scans for blunt abdominal trauma in children were linked to severe injuries, whereas negative scans did not warrant trauma center transfers.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2024
• Heart Failure Drug Development Over the Eras A summary of current efforts of the Heart Failure Collaboratory that highlights important concepts in the contemporary landscape of HF drug development.
  JACC: Heart Failure, December 20, 2024
• “I Had No Words”: The Patient Gifts Doctors Never Forget   These doctors were surprised and moved by very personal gifts given to them by grateful patients. Enjoy some good vibes this holiday season.
  Medscape, December 19, 2024
• Despite Strong Data, Hypofractionated Radiation Underused Why are many radiation oncologists failing to adopt to the new standard treatment option for a range of cancers?
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2024
• The Reason Taxi Drivers Are Protected From Alzheimer’s   And for the rest of us, what can we learn from the unique skill of a cabbie that confers this benefit? Dr F Perry Wilson reveals the secret in this week’s Impact Factor.
  Medscape, December 17, 2024
• How to Assess Cancer Progression Beyond Imaging Results   Dr Mark Kris discusses the many faces of progression on systemic therapy.
  Medscape Oncology, December 17, 2024