Medical Students News

• Neurosurgeon in the Making: The Amazing Journey of Kwadwo Sarpong How did a young immigrant, who began life in the US as a janitor, start several nonprofits, garner invitations to the White House, and achieve his dream of pursuing a career in neurosurgery? Read on.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• APA 2022 Can a Novel Med School Curriculum Curb the US Opioid Epidemic? A curriculum focused on opioid education improves knowledge and confidence about pain management and opioid prescribing among medical students, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• NYC Investigates Possible Case of Monkeypox NYC Health said the patient is being cared for, and if early tests come back positive, the tests will be sent to the CDC for confirmation.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Zolpidem Restrictions: How Are General Practitioners Coping? Most practitioners who participated in a French study described the restrictions as helpful for promoting discontinuation and, at the same time, problematic.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Adolescents With Food Allergies Share Common Concerns Adolescents with food allergies have allergy-related beliefs and concerns that involve five themes that may influence how they manage their condition, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• ESC-HF Moderate to High Alcohol Use May Push 'Pre-HF' Into Clinical HF Also, no protection was evident at any alcohol-intake level among STOP-HF trial participants who were initially at risk for heart failure but without echocardiographic signs of the disease.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 Mixed Interim Results for Combination Imaging in CABG Patients The GREECE study is investigating whether use of noninvasive coronary CT angiography can reduce use of invasive angiography when making treatment decisions for patients with previous bypass surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Exploding E-Cigarettes Cause Traumatic Injuries in Teens Burns and cuts caused by e-cigarette explosions have required hospitalization and surgery for teenage vapers, warn investigators.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• DDW 2022 CRC Screening: Blood Test Accuracy Compared to Colonoscopy More than 550 people had blood taken at the time of colonoscopy to judge the sensitivity and specificity of a serum assay.
  Medscape Medical News, May 21, 2022
• ESC-HF Voice-Analysis App Promising as Acute-HF Early Warning System It could potentially help guide heart failure therapy to avert acute decompensations, researchers say. 'But of course, we have to show that now in larger and randomized clinical studies.'
  Medscape Medical News, May 21, 2022
• How to Manage Drug Interactions With Paxlovid for COVID Some drugs can be held or reduced for the 5-day course. IDSA has published an online guide. Availability in pharmacies has greatly increased in recent weeks.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• SARS-CoV-2 Could Be at Root of Mysterious Hepatitis in Kids A chain of events possibly triggered by unrecognized infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could be causing the mysterious cases of severe hepatitis reported in hundreds of young children around the world, researchers suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Post-Infection Vaccination May Reduce Long COVID Symptoms on Population Level Vaccination after infection with SARS-CoV-2 may contribute to a reduction in the burden of long COVID symptoms in the population, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy During Pregnancy Appears Safe for Babies Maintaining allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) during pregnancy shows no evidence of raising the risk of congenital malformations or other adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to a nationwide study from Sweden.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Oklahoma Bill Would Ban Almost All Abortions at Fertilization That goes beyond what other states have done in shortening the time period in which women could legally obtain abortions.
  WebMD Health News, May 20, 2022
• Doxycycline Bests Azithromycin for Anorectal Chlamydia in Women A 1-week course of doxycycline was superior to a single dose of azithromycin in women with concurrent vaginal and anorectal chlamydia infection in an unblinded randomized controlled trial, mirroring previous results in men.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Roe v. Wade's Pending Fall Raises Privacy Concerns If Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion becomes illegal, can criminal prosecutors or tech companies monitor period and fertility tracking apps, smartphone location data, and social media accounts?
  WebMD Health News, May 20, 2022
• Oklahoma Lawmakers Pass Near-Total Abortion Ban Oklahoma lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to a bill that would ban nearly all abortions and would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps women terminate a pregnancy.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Famotidine Aids in COVID-19 by Helping Limit Inflammation Researchers have discovered just how the antacid famotidine, commonly sold as Pepcid by a Johnson & Johnson unit, was able to help alleviate COVID-19 symptoms in clinical trials.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• CDC Says COVID Hospitalizations to Rise in Most States The forecast, which includes 32 different models across the country, predicts that nearly every US state and territory will see increases in new COVID-19 hospitalizations in the next 2 weeks.
  WebMD Health News, May 20, 2022