A Literal Token of Thanks for Pandemic Work: That's All? Anger after Banner Health rewards employees with unbankable coin for enduring the pandemic Jul 16, 2021
A Patient Care App Diagnosed Me With Cancer No one should receive a serious diagnosis this way -- not even a doctor like myself Jul 16, 2021
Safety Concerns Turn FDA Panel Thumbs Down for Novel CKD-Anemia Drug Advisory committee rejected oral anemia drug for dialysis and non-dialysis patient populations Jul 16, 2021
'Acceptable' Lead in Drinking Water May Still Be Harmful to Patients With CKD No safe amount of lead in water for those with kidney disease, researchers warn Jul 15, 2021
PURE Study Points Finger at Processed, Fatty Foods in IBD But expert serves up a heaping helping of caveats to the findings Jul 14, 2021
Brain Implant Translates Neural Signals Into Sentences Neuroprosthesis decodes input from brain to vocal tract in stroke patient who cannot speak Jul 14, 2021
Anti-Vax Pediatrician Is Back in Business, Kind Of Restrictions will require previously suspended doctor to stay mum on vaccine protocols Jul 14, 2021
Medicine Through Abuelita’s Eyes Patients are better off when treated with empathy and care Jul 14, 2021
Physicians: Stop Dreading Call How to banish those negative thoughts and make them positive Jul 13, 2021
Did Getting a Colonoscopy Lead to Cleaner Living? Results varied by severity of screening findings, researchers found Jul 13, 2021
Low-Weight Babies Delivered Early Do Worse in School Results highlight a need to assess long-term outcomes of obstetric interventions, experts say Jul 13, 2021
Slow Steroid Tapering Succeeds in SLE Flare rates were significantly lower with gradual withdrawal than with low-dose maintenance Jul 13, 2021
Vascular Function: Another Benefit of Bariatric Surgery Macrovascular, microvascular gains accrue for nearly all patient groups Jul 12, 2021
Beta Variant May Be Deadlier, South African Hospital Data Suggests Increases in hospitalizations, deaths in country's second COVID-19 wave Jul 12, 2021
Dear Parents, Kids Need Camp Providers should talk to parents about summer camp precautions that can keep kids safe and healthy Jul 12, 2021
ADHD Linked to Kids' Traumatic Brain Injury Severity But overall, children with ADHD were more likely to experience TBI Jul 12, 2021
Walmart's Low-Price Insulin Is a Band-Aid on a Broken System Exorbitant drug pricing and inaccessible care require government intervention Jul 11, 2021
Some Liver Transplant Patients Got Hepatitis B From Donors Injection drug use may be mostly to blame, researcher says Jul 10, 2021
Support for MRI-Targeted Biopsy in Prostate Cancer Screening Large Swedish study showed the approach cut overdiagnosis, unnecessary biopsies Jul 09, 2021
Finerenone OK'd for Slowing Kidney Disease in T2D Drug also indicated for cardiovascular event risk reduction Jul 09, 2021
FDA Piles on New Warnings for Blood Volume Expanders Hydroxyethyl starch products shouldn't be used for low blood volume unless no other options exist Jul 09, 2021
Tulane's Graduate Medical Education Programs Put on Probation Decision follows public outrage over alleged racism and gender discrimination at the university Jul 09, 2021
Empathy: The Most Critical Skill in Medicine Caring for a patient means putting yourself in their shoes Jul 09, 2021 podcast
'Can You Explain Why You’re Sending Me to the ICU?' Doctor-turned-patient reflects on empathy in medicine after harrowing birth of her child Jul 09, 2021 podcast
Doctor Reacts to Bizarre 'Health Hacks' Videos Diving into the world of YouTube clickbait Jul 08, 2021
Response Soars With Anti-PD-1 Drug for HER2-Positive Stomach Cancer Almost 50% relative increase in ORR with pembrolizumab plus trastuzumab and chemotherapy Jul 08, 2021
You're Not Alone in Your Darkest Hours Ending the silence on mental health can save the lives of our peers, our patients, and ourselves Jul 08, 2021
Effective Treatments for Hand Osteoarthritis: The Search Goes On Hydroxychloroquine not effective as disease-modifying drug for erosive hand OA, trial confirmed Jul 08, 2021
Adults With Obesity See Increased Risk for Crohn's Disease Growing obesity burden may contribute to rise in Crohn's incidence, researcher suggests Jul 08, 2021
Surfside Collapse: Beyond the Immediate Aftermath A forensic pathologist's perspective on "the last responders" Jul 08, 2021
Nurse Suspended Over TikTok Videos About Patients Only thing hurt in her posts were "people's feelings," nurse said Jul 07, 2021
Did Fecal Transplant Stop COVID in Its Tracks? Two Polish patients co-infected with C difficile saw improvements Jul 06, 2021
PD-1 Inhibitor Boosts Survival in Treated Esophageal Cancer Benefit with China-developed tislelizumab in all patients and EU-North American subgroup Jul 06, 2021
APOE Gene Influences Alzheimer's Symptoms, Biomarkers in Down Syndrome Earlier Alzheimer's changes seen in APOE4 carriers Jul 06, 2021
Is Confirmation Bias Guiding COVID Vaccine Recommendations? Policy must be based on indisputable evidence Jul 06, 2021
COVID Surges Emerge; FDA Warns About Chantix; Lions, Tigers, Bears Get Vaxxed A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine Jul 06, 2021
Woman Loses 6-Year Battle With Mouth Tumor Rare ameloblastoma rapidly recurs and metastasizes despite numerous radical excisions Jul 04, 2021
The Elephant in the Doctors' Lounge It's time to get healthcare workers talking about their own mental health Jul 04, 2021
What's Driving Eating Disorders in Trans Patients? Proper care begins with understanding Jul 03, 2021