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Is the Canadian Syncope Risk Score Valid?

Researchers found the Canadian Syncope Risk Score accurately predicts which patients are low risk for discharge. However, since it is driven largely by the physician’s final risk classification at ED discharge, the score’s clinical utility is uncertain.

Smoking Cessation After Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis Could Lower Dementia Risk

A cohort study of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) in South Korea revealed patients who stopped smoking after AF diagnosis were at lower risk for developing dementia than those who continued smoking.

Researchers Suggest Checking Blood Pressure in Both Arms

After taking two readings, use the higher measurement for diagnosis. Guidelines recommend this practice, but data were lacking.

Monkeypox Spread to 29 Non-Endemic Nations Unprecedented

The near-simultaneous emergence of monkeypox in the United States, Europe, and other regions where it rarely is seen has raised questions whether the virus could become endemic beyond West and Central Africa, where it is common.

Pain Researchers Are Engaging Patients as Partners

Pain researchers would benefit by enacting a comprehensive approach to patient engagement, perhaps engaging people with lived experience of chronic pain in developing study recruitment materials.

Wearable Tech in Clinical Research Trials

Researchers are partnering with companies to facilitate clinical research trials that call for patients to use wearable tech, which raises multiple ethical concerns.

Ethics Plays Important Role in Response to Abortion Ruling

As healthcare professionals process the clinical, legal, and even personal implications of the recent Supreme Court decision to allow states to restrict abortion access or ban it entirely, ethicists play an important role.

Cardiac Xenotransplantation Could Fill the Organ Donor Gap, But Is It Ethical?

There are not enough organs for heart failure patients who need them, and cardiac xenotransplantation is one potential, albeit controversial, solution.

WHO Updates Guidance on Long-Acting HIV Prophylaxis

International group suggests adding injectable cabotegravir to list of prevention tools.

Tapinarof Cream 1% (Vtama)

Tapinarof can be prescribed to treat plaque psoriasis in adults.