Nurses News

• Fla. Docs Can Soon Deny Patient Care Over Personal Beliefs A new Florida law allows clinicians to opt out of providing services that go against their religious, moral, or ethical beliefs. Civil rights groups say the legislation contradicts the duty to care.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• New Guidance on Neurological Complications of Long-COVID The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has issued new consensus guidance on the assessment and treatment of neurologic sequelae in patients with long COVID.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• Alert FDA Approves Upadacitinib (Rinvoq) for Crohn's Disease The oral JAK inhibitor is for adults with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease whose condition failed to respond adequately or who can't tolerate one or more TNF inhibitors.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• 'Robust Evidence' That Exercise Cuts Parkinson Risk in Women Regular physical activity has been linked to up to a 25% decreased risk for Parkinson's disease in women, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• Former Immunomedics CFO Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading The former chief financial officer of a New Jersey biotechnology company pleaded guilty on Wednesday to insider trading, after prosecutors said he had given nonpublic information about a new breast cancer drug to his girlfriend at the time.
  Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2023
• Tagrisso, Chemo Combo Shows Promise in Lung Cancer Trial The combination of AstraZeneca's cancer drug, Tagrisso, with chemotherapy to treat patients with a type of lung cancer showed positive results in a late-stage trial, the company said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2023
• EU, United States Launch Joint Health Task Force The European Union and the United States have launched a new joint health task force to cooperate on cancer, global health threats and related supply chains and infrastructure, officials told a press conference on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2023
• Age-Specific Cut-Offs Needed for Cardiac Troponin Tests? Using age-specific thresholds for troponin measurement would more accurately diagnose myocardial injury when assessing patients for suspected MI, a new study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• Overdose Deaths Mark Another Record Year, but Experts Hopeful "But these numbers are still extraordinarily high. We shouldn't suggest the crisis is in any way over."
  WebMD Health News, May 18, 2023
• Patritumab Deruxtecan Shows Promise for Breast Cancer A single dose of patritumab deruxtecan provoked a response in nearly one third of patients with HR-positive/HER2-negative or triple-negative breast cancer.
  MDedge News, May 18, 2023
• ECO 2023 Half of Teens Drop Below Obesity Cutoff With Semaglutide Semaglutide represents an efficacious treatment option for adolescents with obesity, with the potential to reduce BMI below the obesity threshold.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• Genomic Assay Changes Minds on HER2+ Breast Cancer Treatment Results from a prognostic genomic assay convinced a group of Spanish oncologists to change treatment plans for 56% of 89 patients with HER2-positive (HER2+) early breast cancer.
  MDedge News, May 18, 2023
• 7 Things to Know About Bats and Pandemic Risk For millennia, bat viruses lurked in forests across West Africa, India, South America and other parts of the world. But, undisturbed, they posed little threat to humanity.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2023
• The Antimicrobial Peptide That Even Pharma Can Love Those antibiotics may kill 99.9% of germs, but what about the 0.1% that gets left behind?
  MDedge News, May 18, 2023
• DLBCL: Major New Treatment Breakthroughs Recent significant breakthroughs for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) have come through the use of CAR T-cell and immunotherapies and the FDA approval of polatuzumab for frontline DLBCL.
  MDedge News, May 18, 2023
• Teach Basic Lifesaving Skills Starting Age 4, AHA Advises Teaching young children basic life support training has the potential to educate whole generations to respond to cardiac arrest and increase survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• SGIM 2023 Pop This Question to Improve Medication Adherence If you're not talking with your patients about how they can save money on their healthcare, you're missing an opportunity to improve outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• Drug Shortages in US at 10-Year High Drug shortages hit a 10-year high in early 2023. Among the current shortage are 15 cancer drugs, some of which lack an effective alternative.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023
• DDW 2023 Misdiagnosis Still Common in Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms A new study suggests that with better diagnosis a significant proportion of patients with pancreatic cystic neoplasms could be spared from surgery.
  MDedge News, May 18, 2023
• ECO 2023 Obesity Drug With Swallowable Balloon Boosts Weight Loss A combination of a swallowable Allurion gastric balloon and liraglutide delivers higher weight loss (around 19% after mean 4 months) than use of separate treatments.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2023