Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Yes, you should still wear a mask.webmd.ads2.defineAd({id:’ads-pos-1122′,pos: 1122});You may have heard of a new study out of Denmark that tested whether paper surgical face masks protect the people who wear them.The study comes just a week after the CDC updated its […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A “hospital at home” (HaH) program at Atrium Health, a large integrated delivery system in the Southeast, expanded its hospital capacity during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic by providing hospital-level acute care to COVID-19 patients at home, according to […]
Adjunctive use of sodium benzoate (BZ), a common food preservative that has previously shown promise in the treatment of chronic refractory psychosis, appears to be ineffective in the early stages of the disorder, new research suggests.Results of a randomized control trial show the agent was no more effective than placebo in reducing early psychosis symptoms, […]
Sotagliflozin, a novel type of sodium-glucose cotransporter inhibitor, showed the diverse benefits this drug class provides along with some new twists in a pair of international pivotal trials that together enrolled nearly 12,000 patients with type 2 diabetes.Unprecedented benefits were seen for the first time with a drug, sotagliflozin (Zynquista) that produces both sodium-glucose cotransporter […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for the first at-home COVID-19 diagnostic test, which provides results in 30 minutes or less.webmd.ads2.defineAd({id:’ads-pos-1122′,pos: 1122});The COVID-19 prescription All-In-One Test Kit (Lucira Health) is a molecular, single-use test that […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the janus kinase inhibitor baricitinib (Olumiant, Eli Lilly) in combination with remdesivir (Veklury, Gilead) for treating hospitalized adults and children at least 2 years old with suspected […]
Areas where there are high levels of fine-particle air pollution may increase Alzheimer’s-like brain shrinkage, new research suggests.Results of a large longitudinal study show that women who lived in areas in which there were microscopic particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters
Questions about the cardiovascular benefit of omega-3 fatty acids and the high-dose eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) product icosapent ethyl (Vascepa) have resurfaced with the STRENGTH trial, which was presented at the recent American Heart Association (AHA) virtual conference. The STRENGTH trial showed no benefit on cardiovascular event rates of a high-dose combination of EPA and docosahexaenoic acid […]
In the run-up to the 2020 US presidential election, clinicians participating in the VoteER initiative helped tens of thousands of patients register to vote or find voting information.Yet as many as half of practicing physicians aren’t registered to vote themselves, according to a recent study. In comparison, 66% of the general population is registered to […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Delta Air Lines will continue to block middle seats through March 30, 2021, in an attempt to give travelers some peace of mind during the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced Wednesday.webmd.ads2.defineAd({id:’ads-pos-1122′,pos: 1122});According to its news release, Delta is the only U.S. […]