Neurology News

The ACP has proposed a new process to streamline specialty referrals — a step that experts have called critical to fixing a massive issue in health care — but questions remain about the plan’s feasibility.

In this episode, Dr. Benjamin Claytor walks us through his approach to suspected sensory ganglionopathies. I also cover other neurologic complications of Sjogren’s syndrome and some interesting history on vitamin B6.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC, has recently voted to recommend that Congress increase 2024 Medicare payments for physicians and other health services.

Indira Gurubhagavatula, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Penn Medicine, spoke with Healio about the relationship between COVID-19 and sleep.

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced an exclusive license and distribution agreement with Neopharm for the commercialization of ALS therapeutic AMX0035 in Israel, Gaza, West Bank and the Palestinian Authority.

Health officials said a safety signal detected by a national surveillance system is “very unlikely” to represent a “true clinical risk” for stroke among older people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent COVID-19 booster.

Quantitative pupillometry may be a reliable method of assessing clinically intoxicated patients in EDs, per a study published in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open.

Cardiometabolic multimorbidity and midlife onset of cardiometabolic disease are significantly associated with an increased risk for dementia, and genetic background may underlie this association, researchers reported.

LinusBio announced it has raised over $16 million in Series A funding to deliver technology that combines genomics, the environment and biological response to help diagnose and monitor the progression of disorders such as ALS and autism.

Treatment with IV Tenecteplase was not associated with better functional outcome after 90 days in patients with wake-up stroke selected using advanced imaging, per a study published in The Lancet Neurology.