Nurses in Oregon Take to the Picket Lines to Demand Better Staffing, Higher Pay Thousands spent second day striking Jun 20, 2024
Antibiotics May Not Be Necessary to Prevent Endophthalmitis After Cataract Surgery Infections were extremely rare when surgeons relied only on low-strength povidone iodine Jun 20, 2024
Trump's Memory Issues? Surgeon Charged in Wife's Death; Consent for Sterilization Health news and commentary gathered by ֱ staff Jun 20, 2024
Multidrug Regimen Could Change Treatment Landscape for Relapsed/Refractory DLBCL High-rate of durable responses with ViPOR sparks talk of supplanting CAR-T in second line Jun 19, 2024
Alzheimer's Onset Delayed by Rare Mutation Just one copy of the Christchurch variant conferred protection Jun 19, 2024
Novel Anti-CD38 Drug Shows Promise for Immune Thrombocytopenia "Rapid and sustained" efficacy in 95% of pretreated patients in small trial Jun 19, 2024
Americans With HIV Are Living Longer. Federal Spending Isn't Keeping Up. Funding constraints could undermine the decades-long battle Jun 19, 2024
CMS Is Making It Easier to Report EMTALA Complaints. Here's What Might Change. The new webpage has the potential to make EDs safer Jun 19, 2024
Use This Common Cardiac Test in RA Patients, Study Suggests Identifies heart risks not captured by conventional risk factors Jun 19, 2024
Depression Trial Wins, Losses; Americans' Chronic Insomnia; Kids' Sleep Anxiety News and commentary from the psychiatry world Jun 19, 2024
Texas Doc Accused of Illegally Accessing Child Health Records Eithan Haim, MD, reportedly outed hospital for continuing gender-affirming care program Jun 19, 2024
What Caused Patient's Heart Palpitations and Periodic Weakness? ECG findings clarify those of a thorough physical and patient history Jun 19, 2024
Drug Shortages Keep Growing. Older, Injectable Agents Are Among the Most Vulnerable. A Q&A with Erin Fox, PharmD, MHA, on the record-breaking shortages Jun 19, 2024
'Striking' Disparities in Specialty Care for Kids With Asthma on Public Insurance Those on Medicaid had a 55% lower odds of specialist care versus the privately insured Jun 19, 2024
Perinatal Depression Tied to Increased Risk of Midlife Cardiovascular Disease Relationships most pronounced for hypertensive disease, ischemic heart disease, heart failure Jun 18, 2024
Quantifying Alcohol's Death Risk; NDAs Hide Docs' Mistakes; H5N1 Pandemic Prep This past week in healthcare investigations Jun 18, 2024
CMS Star Ratings Unreliable for Surgical Quality? Higher ratings tied to better surgical outcomes, but variability was high even within star groups Jun 18, 2024
Lawmakers Sharply Question Experts About COVID's Origin "Lab leak" versus natural origin in the spotlight at hearing Jun 18, 2024
Large-Scale Intensive BP Intervention Proves Sustainable for CVD Prevention Community-based program reduced events regardless of age, diabetes Jun 18, 2024
Certain Clinical Factors Tied to Poor Response to Biologics for Psoriasis Previous exposure to biologics, higher BMI, smoking all negatively linked to response Jun 18, 2024
IG Live June 21: Healing With Pride, Supporting LGBTQ Youth Mental Health Despite higher rates of mental health issues, LGBTQ youth have less access to care Jun 18, 2024
Cardiology's Private Equity Hot Spots; Statin Overuse; Type B Blood & Heart Injury Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine Jun 18, 2024
Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's; Alzheimer's Blood Test Standards; ARBs and Epilepsy News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience Jun 18, 2024
FDA Approves Pneumococcal Vax Designed Specifically for Adults Covers serotypes responsible for over 80% of invasive pneumococcal disease in those 50 and up Jun 18, 2024
The Artificially Intelligent Physician Envisioning the role of an AI doctor from sci-fi accounts is intriguing, if not alarming Jun 18, 2024
Treating the Trauma of Bullet-Related Injuries "Retained bullets are one of the most malignant forms," of bullet-related injury, says LJ Punch Jun 18, 2024 video
Farxiga OK'd for Kids; Semaglutide Price Hearing; Maintaining GLP-1 Weight Loss News and commentary from the endocrinology world Jun 18, 2024
Nurse Charged With Stealing Fentanyl, Replacing IV Drips With Tap Water Many of the patients developed serious infections, and 16 died Jun 18, 2024
Breast Cancer Highlights From ASCO 2024 Adriana Kahn, MD, highlights some of the exciting research in the metastatic setting Jun 18, 2024 video
Regorafenib-Pembrolizumab Has 'Modest' Activity in HCC Post-Immunotherapy Study tests second-line option for patients who progressed on immune checkpoint inhibitors Jun 18, 2024 video
Lost Chances to Treat Overdose Survivors Documented in New Medicare Study Findings also highlight the difficulty of managing chronic pain Jun 18, 2024
USPSTF Recommends Behavioral Interventions for Kids With High BMI Final recommendations did not include weight-loss drugs Jun 18, 2024
Are T-DXd Results in HER2-Low/Ultralow Breast Cancer Practice-Changing? Hope Rugo, MD, leads a discussion with Joyce O'Shaughnessy, MD, and Sara Tolaney, MD, MPH Jun 18, 2024 video
Trump Cussed Out Fauci; Midwife Destroyed Vaccines; Ian McKellen Hospitalized Health news and commentary gathered by ֱ staff Jun 18, 2024
Durvalumab Consolidation a 'Breakthrough' in Limited-Stage SCLC Roy Herbst, MD, PhD, leads a roundtable talk that also reviews the recent tarlatamab approval Jun 18, 2024 video
Retract Now: Negating Flawed Research Must Be Quicker Incentives and streamlined processes can prevent the spread of incorrect science Jun 18, 2024
Does Immunotherapy Lower Risk of Secondary Cancers? Retrospective analysis of Cleveland Clinic data looks to answer the question Jun 18, 2024 video
Vaping, Chantix Show Similar Benefit for Quitting Cigarettes, in the Short Term Confirmed abstinence rates with either doubled versus placebo at 26 weeks Jun 17, 2024
Fix What's Broken in Healthcare Is New AMA President's Priority That includes raising Medicare reimbursement and lessening prior authorization, says Bruce Scott Jun 17, 2024
Three-Drug Regimens Make Case for a Role in Untreated and Relapsed/Refractory CLL Undetectable MRD rates of 90% or higher, PFS of 7 years or more Jun 17, 2024