Clinician Insights

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.
News, May 23, 2022
Vitamins, OTC Drugs May Interact With HIV Antiretroviral Therapy OTC medications, food supplements, and other drugs may interact with antiretroviral therapy and harm people living with HIV, researchers in Denmark report.
News, May 20, 2022
What Do Ultrasound Images Find in Superficial Lumps and Bumps? The Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound offers illustrated clinical tips in a recently published paper to help diagnose and manage commonly identified masses.
News, May 12, 2022
Clinical Chest Images Power Up Survival Prediction in Lung Cancer Radiation oncologists can use CT chest images for more than radiation treatment plans, study suggests.
News, May 02, 2022
Many Ukrainian Doctors Affected by Russian Invasion Survey showed that US physicians oppose sanctioning of Russian colleagues by medical societies.
News, April 21, 2022
Can Gram Stains Guide Antibiotics for Pneumonia in Critical Care? Use of Gram stains to select antibiotics for ventilator-associated pneumonia offers similar clinical outcomes as guideline-based broad-spectrum treatment, study reports.
News, April 08, 2022
Hidden Formaldehyde in Products Linked to Allergic Reactions Hidden formaldehyde found in many cosmetics, healthcare products, and more may trigger contact allergy and allergic contact dermatitis, according to a clinical review update from Belgium.
News, March 31, 2022
Rare and Preventable: Painful Post-vax Shoulder Problems Bursitis and other painful shoulder problems that may arise after vaccination into the deltoid muscle are rare and preventable, researchers report.
News, March 23, 2022
Low Risk of Heart Attack After Eye Procedures, Study Finds Ophthalmologists do not need to routinely delay ophthalmologic procedures in their patients whose blood pressure is not well-controlled, according to study of Scandinavian patient registry data.
News, March 22, 2022
Unaffiliated Telehealth Doctors May Prescribe More Antibiotics During telehealth visits for acute respiratory infection, third-party acute-care doctors prescribed antibiotics more than twice as often as system-employed doctors, researchers report.
News, March 21, 2022
Opioid-Free Anesthesia Shows Benefit in Retrospective Studies Anesthesiologists report shorter hospitalization in two small studies, testing ways to reduce patients' exposure to opioids during pancreatic surgery.
News, February 28, 2022
How Do AERD Patients' Self-Reports Compare With Objective Tests? Patients with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease are good at determining their own symptoms and we should believe them, a study author says. The study also supports the validity of the questionnaires in research.
News, February 09, 2022
Clinical Data Affirms Dupilumab for Chronic Nasal Polyps Provisional 'real-life' data showed dupilumab improved outcomes for challenging patients with chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps.
News, February 09, 2022
COVID Fatigue Pervasive, but Men and Women React Differently Women and younger respondents in a WebMD poll were more likely to report experiencing the fatigue weekly. Men were more likely to say they hadn't actively tried to combat the effects.
News, January 20, 2022
30% of Docs Say They Don't Want Own Kids 5-11 to Get COVID Vaccine Among nurses/APRNs with kids in that age group, 45% said they would not have their children vaccinated.
News, November 23, 2021
Healthcare Workers' Support for Boosters Varies Slightly by Their Role Most say they plan to get a COVID-19 booster shot and will keep getting a COVID vaccine even if it is eventually recommended annually.
News, November 05, 2021
ESC 2021 New ESC Guidelines on CVD Prevention The new guidelines adopt the SCORE2 and SCORE2-OP algorithms to gauge long-term cardiovascular risk and introduce a stepwise treatment-intensification approach.
News, September 01, 2021
Married Docs Remove Ethiopian Girl's Lethal Facial Tumor The surgery was possible because of the generosity of several organizations, but the two surgeons still had a limited time to remove the mass.
News, July 07, 2021
Our Readers Respond: Require Doctors Be COVID-19 Vaccinated? A WebMD poll and another from Medscape approach the same COVID-19 vaccination requirement question from different angles.
News, May 07, 2021
Who Can Call Themselves 'Doctor?' The Debate Heats Up A new Medscape poll shows that most physicians -- but not nonphysician clinicians -- think using the title 'doctor' is appropriate but primarily in certain settings.
News, May 05, 2021

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