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A male nurse gives a teen male a COVID-19 vaccination, both are wearing protective masks.

CDC's All-or-Nothing Approach to Teen COVID Vaccination Is All Wrong

The agency should revisit its latest guidance to maximize benefits and minimize risks

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Emergency Departments Are a Dangerous Workplace

Recollections "poignant and often chilling"

Do 'Robots' Offer Any Clear Surgical Advantage?

Review says no, and Vinay Prasad believes it's a sobering reflection on medical technology

A young male doctor in scrubs sits in a hospital hallway.

Dear New Residents, You Will Make Mistakes

And other reflections from a chief resident

A portrait of a fuming young female physician surrounded by many BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! words.

Mansplaining in Medicine

And how to solve it

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Ethics Consult: Help Family Have 'Savior Child' for Marrow Donation? MD/JD Weighs In

You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion

INVESTIGATIVE ROUNDUP over an image of two people looking at computer screens.

Subsys Doc Gets 5 Years; Docs Take Billions From Device Makers; Child Abuse Law

This past week in healthcare investigations

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Do We Still Need Office Visits?

It's time to look beyond our traditional modes of care delivery

Hospital Slapped With Lawsuit Over Horrifying Attack on Resident

"Dr. A" was repeatedly stabbed with a lunch tray metal knife and pen as nurses hid in fear

Several packets of Suboxone sublingual film

As Overdoses Rise, Opioid Treatment Providers Struggle to Get Paid

Providers of medication assisted treatment say they're bleeding cash, and unable to keep staff

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The Long Overdue Rise of Gender-Affirming Care

Medicine is finally starting to catch up with the times, but there's a long way to go

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Can a Personality Test Make You a Better Doctor?

You might be surprised what you can uncover to enrich your career

AMA over a grid of doctors faces of various genders and ethnicities.

AMA Punts on Vaccine Strategy for Immigrants

Also asks for more in-depth report on short-term medical trips, so-called 'voluntourism'

AMA over a grid of doctors faces of various genders and ethnicities.

AMA Debates Value of Natural Immunity to COVID

Should those who have had a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection receive vaccination credentials?

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First Close Look at Presumed Myocarditis Cases After COVID Vaccination

Case reports suggest a favorable clinical course after hospitalization

Is Old Vaccine Technology the Key to Hesitancy?

Experts weigh whether Novavax's protein subunit strategy can convince some COVID vaccine holdouts

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Face-to-Face With Fauci

YouTube star "Dr. Mike" sits down with Anthony Fauci, MD

A computer rendering of the male reproductive system with a cross section of the prostate which has a tumor.

What's Guiding Prostate Cancer Care for Gay Men?

Research specific to this group has only scratched the surface

AMA over a grid of doctors faces of various genders and ethnicities.

AMA Supports Docs Receiving MAT for Substance Use

Organization also embraces physicians with disabilities or illness

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The FDA Is Failing the American People

The agency's recent decision to approve aducanumab offers more evidence of a broken system

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It's Time to End the USMLE Step 3 Exam

It's a redundant and harmful entity on the path of medical education

A blister pack of four Viagra pills laying on a stack of $100 bills.

Why Branded Viagra Is Vastly More Expensive Than Its Generics

For some brand-name drugs, prices don't go down when generics crop up; Viagra still an outlier

AMA over a grid of doctors faces of various genders and ethnicities.

Effort to Strengthen AMA Anti-Discrimination Policy Encounters Resistance

Critics of the draft resolution wonder if it's a "bridge too far"

AMA over a grid of doctors faces of various genders and ethnicities.

A National Task Force for Obesity? AMA Delegates Debate the Idea

Policy eyes reducing maternal mortality, COVID-19 deaths among minorities

AMA over a grid of doctors faces of various genders and ethnicities.

AMA Delegates Pan Physician Assistants' Name Change Announcement

"We call this 'Scope-A-Dope'"

AMA over a grid of doctors faces of various genders and ethnicities.

AMA Delegates Debate Making Sex on Birth Certificate Private

Also discuss improving doc access to tools to identify youth at "imminent risk" for suicide

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The Case of the Yellow Sticky Note

This simple office supply was a clue to doctor's problems at work

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Want Healthcare for All? Ditch Fee-for-Service, Says Former CMS Chief

"We should move to global budgets as soon as possible," says Donald Berwick

A business woman stands outside of a glass structure looking at the man standing within.

Breaking Through Healthcare's Glass Ceiling

Let's close the gender gap at the leadership level

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Don't Wait for the Government to Fix Healthcare

Healthcare 3.0 is in your hands

Investigation of Patient Death Finds Deficient Care at VA Hospital

Emergency department triage may have resulted in delay in care

Congress Wrestles Over How to Hold Sackler Family Accountable

Without a legal fix, OxyContin makers would evade responsibility for untold deaths, say Dems

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How Photography Made Me a Better Doctor

Where art and medicine overlap to create a more complete picture

A man lifts up his sleeve to reveal a NO VAX tattoo on his shoulder.

Op-Ed: Needling Friends to Get the COVID Jab? Stop

Here's a hot take on vaccine holdouts: leave them alone

A photo of a man writing on a chalkboard: EQ KNOW YOU, IQ KNOW HOW

How Emotionally Intelligent Are You About Your EQ?

Hint: It's not just about empathy for patients

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Ethics Consult: Is Reporting Mom's Drug Use Protecting Child or Invading Privacy?

You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion

Is This Medical Board Headed for a Shake-Up?

Could be the first in the nation to have public member majority

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Op-Ed: Why Is Prescribing Information Still on Paper?

Making electronic info the default is a small change with a big environmental impact

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Doctor Versus Fighter Jet

Here's what happens to your body in an F-16

COVID-19 UPDATE and Other News over a background of illustrated coronaviruses

Guns for Vaccinations; IU Health Joins the Mandate Club; NFL Ends 'Race-Norming'

A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine

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