Neurology Perspective

• Best & Worst Places to Practice 2022 Some states offer lots of perks and temptations for physician practices, although each doctor has their own priorities that make some places more desirable.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 20, 2022
• How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain   Pain is central to every specialty, and we all played a part in the opioid crisis, says Dr Haider Warraich, author of The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain.
  Medscape, May 20, 2022
• The Latest in Movement Disorder Research   This year's AAN meeting highlighted differences in outcomes based on patients' backgrounds.
  Medscape Neurology, May 19, 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
• Tragic End to a Fairytale: The Case I Wish I Could Rewrite A patient of mine who had Parkinson's disease and depression called me at home. She needed a next-day appointment. I made her one. But I wish that I'd done more.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 17, 2022
• Medscape Neurologist Compensation Report 2022 Medscape's Neurologist Compensation Report 2022 explores income sources, pay gaps, and attitudes about work as COVID's impact on medical practices declines.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 13, 2022
• The Case for Post-COVID Steroids   Dr F. Perry Wilson cautions against changing practice on the basis of a single study.
  Medscape, May 12, 2022
• Medicare Is Right Not to Pay for Costly Alzheimer's Drug: Ethicist   Prof Art Caplan discusses Medicare's decision on paying for the use of the Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 11, 2022
• Episode 2: The Role of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Major Depressive Disorder   Madhukar Trivedi, MD, and Jonathan Downar, MD, review the evidence on the efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for major depressive disorder.
  Medscape, May 11, 2022
• Five New Neurology Studies: Possible Breakthroughs, Some Failures   Dr Christoph Diener on promising early results in muscular dystrophy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and discouraging ones for aducanumab.
  Medscape Neurology, May 09, 2022
• HRS 2022 Taking Cardiac Pacing From Boring to Super-Cool Ablation has hogged the electrophysiology spotlight recently, but three presentations at the 2022 Heart Rhythm Society meeting put cardiac pacing on the comeback trail.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 09, 2022
• What I Wish I Knew Before Starting My First Job Search You do have a say in what your job looks like and you absolutely deserve that.
  Medscape Blogs, May 09, 2022
• Hope, Hype, and the Problem With New Drug Development Desperation for neurologic disorders is leading us away from evidence-based practices.
  Medscape Neurology, May 06, 2022
• A Doctor, a Poem, and a License to Reflect   The arts offer powerful ways to reconnect with the sentiments and motivations that brought us to medicine in the first place.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 05, 2022
• Aspirin in Primary Prevention of CVD: Rational Use   The aspirin question returns as the balance of benefits vs harms for some patient groups is reassessed.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, May 04, 2022
• Key Studies in Migraine From AAN 2022   Dr Jessica Ailani reports key studies in migraine from AAN 2022, including a potential biomarker for migraine progression, analyses of the CaMEO study, and pregnancy outcomes in migraine patients.
  Medscape, May 03, 2022
• Cure, Prevent, or Manage All Disease: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Bold Plan Is Already Working   Dr Eric Topol sits down with Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to talk about the next phase of their ambitious Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
  Medscape, April 28, 2022
• Smartphone Diagnosis in Infant Seizures: Highly Effective?   Drs Andrew Wilner and Chethan Rao discuss the potential use for smartphone video as an important adjunct in the diagnosis and treatment of infantile spasms.
  Medscape Neurology, April 27, 2022
• How Do We Distinguish Between Viral and Bacterial Meningitis? Early diagnosis is crucial for providing the appropriate treatment for meningitis. High-sensitivity and specificity molecular techniques can help distinguish between bacterial and viral etiologies.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, April 25, 2022
• Managing Migraine in Primary Care: 5 Things to Know Key aspects and practical tips about migraine diagnosis and treatment for primary care physicians.
  American Headache Society and Medscape, April 25, 2022