Latest - Pathology & Lab Medicine

• Medicine, AI, and Bias: Will Bad Data Undermine Good Tech? Artificial Intelligence models may help predict and prevent diseases. But recent research highlights the challenges they face in providing insights that work for all.
  WebMD Health News, May 18, 2022
• Does He Have Back Pain or Rheumatism? The search for evidence of inflammatory conditions is difficult, even for experts. One expert explains how this search can be successful.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Does Suicide Risk Show Up in the Blood? Researchers have identified potential blood biomarkers that may signal heightened risk for suicide in patients with major depressive disorder.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 One-Month DAPT Enough for Complex PCI if Bleeding Risk High Latest data from the MASTER DAPT trial show similar results in the subgroup of patients who underwent complex PCI as in the main trial.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Liquid Biopsy Predicts Resistance to Neoadjuvant Therapy in Esophageal Cancer Researchers have developed and validated a liquid biopsy assay that can predict response to neoadjuvant therapy in patients with esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma, which may lead to more personalized treatment decisions.
  Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2022
• ESOC 2022 High IL-6 Levels Linked to Carotid Plaque Severity, Progression Increased circulating levels of interleukin 6 are linked to increased carotid plaque severity and progression, say researchers who also identified a way to select patients for anti-IL-6 therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Colorectal Cancer e-Tumor Boards: Case 2: Colorectal Liver Metastases   The case focuses on a 32-year-old man whose colonoscopy showed a non-bleeding mass about 2-3 cm above the anal verge with some symptoms of mild partial obstruction. His staging imaging demonstrates multiple liver lesions, a mid-rectal thickening, and some small pulmonary nodules.
  Medscape, May 18, 2022
• The Psychopathic Brain: New Insight A neuroimaging study shows that the striatum is nearly 10% larger in adults with psychopathic traits compared to those with no psychopathic traits.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Skin Testing May Help Detect Movement Disorders   Drs Andrew Wilner and Christopher Gibbons discuss recent data on alpha-synuclein in the context of synucleinopathies presented at the 2022 American Academy of Neurology meeting.
  Medscape Neurology, May 18, 2022
• AACE 2022 Biotin: Good for Hair and Nails, Bad for Thyroid Lab Tests New study supports prior finding that about 7% of the population uses products containing biotin in doses high enough to interfere with many laboratory tests, including those of thyroid function.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• How Better Ventilation Can Help ‘COVID-Proof’ Your Home Is someone at home sick with COVID-19? One simple but effective strategy for keeping the virus from spreading is to make your indoor air as much like the outdoors' as possible.
  Kaiser Health News, May 18, 2022
• Updated AHA/ASA Guideline Changes Care for Spontaneous ICH Several "standard care" therapies for ICH are not as effective as once thought and are no longer recommended in updated guidelines.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• US Tops 1M COVID Deaths: 'History Should Judge Us Harshly' Case numbers are rising again, and the United States reaches a once unimaginable and grim milestone.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Poisoned at Work: A Detective Story for Nephrologists A patient with kidney disease of unknown origin had mostly unremarkable findings. It was only when he mentioned having noticed white powder on his lunch that a diagnosis became clearer.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Imiquimod Cream Offers Alternative to Surgery for Vulvar Lesions Topical imiquimod offers an alternative to surgery for women with HPV-related precancerous lesions, concludes the first head-to-head randomized trial of the two approaches.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Our Brains Learn From Mistakes and Can Track Performance Our ability to try new things and learn from successes and failures depends a lot on cells in the brain's frontal lobe behind the forehead, report researchers who learned more from new lab tests.
  WebMD Health News, May 16, 2022
• Low Butyrylcholinesterase: A Possible Biomarker of SIDS Risk? A previously unidentified cholinergic deficit may be present at birth in babies at risk for sudden infant death syndrome, according to researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Global Return of Cardiac Testing Uneven, Staff Stress a Factor The recovery of diagnostic testing differed across the globe in a new survey that also revealed 'alarming' rates of burnout and stress among testing staff.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• ATS 2022 Race-Based Spirometry May Lead to Missed Diagnoses Adjusting for purported racial differences may lead to underdiagnosis and undertreatment of Black patients.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• The COVID Testing Company That Missed 96% of Cases Officials across Nevada signed agreements with Northshore Clinical Labs, a COVID testing laboratory run by men with local political connections. There was only one problem: Its tests didn't work.
  ProPublica, May 16, 2022