Hospital Medicine News

• 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
• 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
• Leaving ED Without Being Seen Entails Increasing Risks Researchers call for long-term, consistent funding for primary, emergency, hospital, and long-term care.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Remimazolam-Flumazenil Combo Cuts Extubation Time in TAVI Compared with sevoflurane, a combination of remimazolam and flumazenil reduced the time to extubation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation by approximately 7 minutes, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Personalized Care Can Ease Preoperative Anesthesia Anxiety A brief, tailored psychoeducational intervention reduced anesthesia-related anxiety in patients seeking support prior to surgery, offering a safe and effective alternative to anxiolytic premedication, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Jumping Jacks and Cold Water: Mental Health Tools for Kids Emotional lashing out, chronic worry, depression, and self-harm are some of the mental health issues pediatricians are presented with, and patients deserve more than a referral to a mental health specialist, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 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
• New Trial Seeks to Pin Down Pediatric PAH Treatment Phase 3 open-label study will compare two protocols for children with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
  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
• 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
• RSV Vaccines and Treatments Face Global Access Hurdles Vaccines and monoclonal antibodies are reducing RSV hospitalizations, but high costs and limited access in low-income countries hinder global epidemiology changes.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Cardiac Risks With Newer Psoriasis Meds Match TNF Inhibitors A study of biologic-naive patients with psoriasis or PsA found that IL-17, IL-12/23, and IL-23 inhibitors have cardiovascular and thrombotic risk profiles comparable with those of TNF inhibitors.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• GLP-1s: The Key to Meet BMI Cutoff for Orthopedic Surgery? Surgeons are collaborating with obesity medicine physicians, turning to GLP-1s to help high BMI patients qualify for surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Student-Run Clinics Seen Expanding With Promise and Pitfalls Medical students appear to be participating and managing more free clinics. A recent JAMA Internal Medicine article explored the benefits and potential risks of these programs.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Cost Barriers Influence Adherence to Asthma Care According to a recent study, financial constraint was a major contributor to nonadherence to medications in adults with asthma in the United States.
  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
• Med Students: Ready for Residency, but Not Career New survey results showed that some med students feel confident heading into the next phase of learning but not so much in their eventual jobs.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• France Identifies First Case Of New Mpox Variant, AFP Reports France has identified its first case of the new mpox variant, news agency AFP reported on Monday, citing a statement from the country's health ministry.
  Reuters Health Information, January 06, 2025
• Combined Psoriasis/PsA Clinics: Potential and Pitfalls Experts propose potential workarounds for obstacles to wider use of combined clinics and personalized medicine for dermatology and rheumatology patients.
  Medscape Medical News, January 02, 2025