Damian McNamara

Damian McNamara is a journalist for Medscape Medical News and MDedge. He worked full-time for MDedge as the Miami Bureau covering a dozen medical specialties during 2001-2012, then as a freelancer for Medscape and MDedge, before being hired on staff by Medscape in 2018. Now the two companies are one. He uses what he learned in school – Damian has a BS in chemistry and an MS in science, health and environmental reporting/journalism. He works out of a home office in Miami, with a 100-pound chocolate lab known to snore under his desk during work hours.

News

COVID-19 linked to large vessel stroke in young adults

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: April 27, 2020

The virus appears to cause disease through a process of blood clotting, according to an expert.

News

COVID-19: Are acute stroke patients avoiding emergency care?

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: April 8, 2020

Stroke specialists in New Orleans, Chicago, Seattle, and elsewhere are seeing a precipitous drop in the number of acute strokes at their institutio...

News

Neurologic symptoms and COVID-19: What’s known, what isn’t

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: April 6, 2020

COVID-19 symptoms may include encephalopathy, ataxia, and other neurologic signs.

News

More evidence backs LDL below 70 to reduce recurrent stroke

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: February 26, 2020

LOS ANGELES – Targeting LDL below 70 mg/dL for more than 5 years avoided more than one in four subsequent major cardiovascular events among adults ...

News

BASILAR: Endovascular treatment improves outcomes in BAO stroke

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: February 26, 2020

LOS ANGELES – Patients with a posterior basilar artery occlusion who received both endovascular therapy and thrombolysis were almost five times mor...

News

ARCADIA: Predicting risk of atrial cardiopathy poststroke

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: February 20, 2020

LOS ANGELES – First analysis of risk factors for atrial cardiopathy in patients with an embolic stroke of undetermined source may help to identify ...

News

Shingles vaccine linked to lower stroke risk

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: February 20, 2020

Data from a large Medicare database showed a 20% decrease in stroke risk among adults who received the shingles vaccine.

News

Stroke risk tied to diabetic retinopathy may not be modifiable

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: February 20, 2020

LOS ANGELES – Findings from a subanalysis of the ACCORD Eye Study showed that glucose, lipid, and hypertension interventions did not mitigate the i...

News

Treating LDL to below 70 reduces recurrent stroke

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: November 21, 2019

PHILADELPHIA – Results of TST, a rare cholesterol study in patients with a history of ischemic stroke, explore the benefits of treating to a lower ...

News

PASI responses with biologics similar among white, nonwhite individuals, study finds

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: March 12, 2018

MIAMI– Investigators used data from psoriasis studies to determine whether treatment responses differed in skin of color patients.

News

Study highlights need to investigate psoriasis treatment outcomes in skin of color patients

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: March 9, 2018

MIAMI – Researchers used phase 2 and 3 psoriasis clinical trial data to explore potential differences in treatment response in various ethnic group...

News

Alemtuzumab-induced autoimmunity: getting closer to answers

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: March 6, 2018

Researchers are getting closer to identifying MS patients more susceptible to secondary autoimmunity after alemtuzumab treatment.

News

Researchers find predictors of worse MS outcomes in post hoc study of three trials

Author:: Damian McNamara

Publish date: February 28, 2018

Predicting which people with MS might experience relapse or progression of disability could help clinicians more closely follow those at higher ris...