County-level stroke mortality occurring outside a stroke unit correlated primarily with demographics and health care and environmental factors, according to results from a retrospective, cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

The addition of androgen deprivation therapy to radiation therapy did not appear associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular mortality among men with prostate cancer, according to a study published in Cancer.

Olanzapine/samidorphan combination treatment reduced weight gain across several subgroups of individuals at increased risk for weight gain with olanzapine, according to results of a subgroup analysis.

The American Academy of Neurology released an update to their 2014 position statement on telehealth in which they reiterate their call for expanding its use.

Messenger RNA vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna were 94% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 among health care workers after two doses and more than 80% effective after one, researchers reported in MMWR.

Researchers said a blood test that assesses multiple biomarkers can rule out a pregnant person’s risk for developing preeclampsia in the next 14 days.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recently issued a report on how to make “high-quality primary care” available to all patients in the United States.

In a cohort of Chinese patients with normal kidney function at baseline, NSAIDs had varying impacts on eGFR decline, with ibuprofen posing the lowest risk and etoricoxib posing the highest risk.

Tympanostomy tubes were not superior to medical management in reducing the rate of episodes of acute otitis media over a 2-year period in infants and toddlers, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Patients with actively treated diabetic macular edema who undergo cataract surgery may experience worsening DME that does not immediately affect best corrected visual acuity.