Neurology

Declines in opioid prescribing outpacing increases in receipt of nonopioid therapies

Discovery of poliovirus in sewage samples suggests there is already community transmission of the virus

Under the law, Medicare will now be allowed to negotiate the cost of some drugs; vaccines will be free for Part D recipients

Clinicians can use early risk factors to identify patients who are more likely to have the worst physical and mental HRQoL trajectories

Compared with those with little to no impairment, adults with serious disability less likely to initiate COVID-19 vaccination

Risk for adverse health outcomes higher for patients with Medicare Part D plans limiting access to non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants

Physical activities inversely associated with incidence of all-cause dementia, vascular dementia, Alzheimer disease

Plasma concentrations of glial fibrillary acidic protein and ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 may predict death, unfavorable outcomes

Increases seen in isolated intracranial abscess and sinusitis complicated by intracranial abscess during early COVID-19 pandemic

Only 4 and 9 percent of this effect was mediated by atrial fibrillation or stroke