CDC Details Rabies Death After Boy Goes Untreated Following Bat Bite Tragic case highlights need for further education about bat bites and risk of rabies in the U.S. Dec 09, 2022
Medicare Must Pay Docs More, Say MedPAC Commissioners Two proposals discussed at the commission's December meeting would increase physician pay Dec 09, 2022
Want to Improve Indoor Air Quality? Open Some Windows Joseph Allen, PhD, on why we need higher air quality standards for all of our health Dec 09, 2022 video
Pharmacogenomic Results Clear to Young Cancer Patients' Families But few guardians shared these results with other care providers Dec 09, 2022
Should Doctors Warn Patients About the Downsides of Medicare Advantage Plans? Beneficiaries may not be aware of the plans' limited networks or prior authorization rules Dec 08, 2022
TAVR at 20: How Much Longer Will Medicare Mandate a Registry? Change is a-comin' but interventionalists debate just how soon that should be and what comes next Dec 08, 2022
Pharmacists Not Immune to Harassment From Patients Pharmacists are experiencing abuse too -- but they're not always sure how to respond Dec 08, 2022
What Happens When We Apologize to Our Patients? There is incredible power in admitting error Dec 08, 2022
Lawsuits Against Fugitive Doc Can Proceed; Nurse Who Gave Fake Vax Walks Free A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Dec 08, 2022
Police Attitudes on Naloxone Use for Overdose Improved With Pharmacists' Help Training for Tennessee police officers yielded small gains in overdose response outlooks Dec 07, 2022
Metastasis 'Doorway' May Lead to Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Density of cellular complex after neoadjuvant therapy tied to cancer subtypes, may be targetable Dec 07, 2022
Drug-Diversion Program Cut Controlled-Substance Discrepancies at Mount Sinai A daily audit of EHR and dispensing machines revealed documentation mistakes, other errors Dec 07, 2022
For True Cultural Change for Women in Surgery, More Work Is Needed Qualitative aspects of survey get at heart of gender disparities in practice Dec 07, 2022
'Our Culture War Is Killing People,' Says Former NIH Director Francis Collins talks Elon Musk, vaccine misinformation, and long COVID Dec 07, 2022
Not Just a Miner's Problem: Workplace Fumes, Dust Tied to RA Swedish study expands range of airborne toxics associated with rheumatic disease Dec 06, 2022
Status Epilepticus Hospitalizations Climb Black patients twice as likely to be hospitalized with prolonged seizures Dec 06, 2022
Drug Overdose Deaths in Pregnancy Rose 81% in Recent Years Sharp increase driven by deaths involving fentanyl and other synthetics Dec 06, 2022
I'm a Neurologist, Hear Me Roar If I wasn't believed when seeking care, what chance do non-physicians have? Dec 06, 2022
Decoding Cancer A conversation with Harold Varmus, MD, who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1989 Dec 06, 2022 podcast
Medicare Advantage Plans Losing Their Edge for Patient Outcomes Case in point: heart attack survival nationwide Dec 06, 2022
Shouldn't Doctors Be Paid for Responding to Health Portal Messages? Cleveland Clinic's billing plan has sparked much-needed conversation about physician compensation Dec 05, 2022
Where Did All the Monkeypox Go? Mpox questions answered by Demetre "Doctor D" Daskalakis Dec 05, 2022
Sweeten the Pot With Financial Incentives to Boost Weight Loss More people with obesity lost weight when cash incentives were added to practical resources Dec 05, 2022
Epilepsy Drug Costs Continue to Climb Third-generation, brand-name drugs fuel rising expenses Dec 05, 2022
A Dangerous Chilling Effect in Gender-Affirming Care Gender-affirming facilities must continue offering information and resources, despite threats Dec 03, 2022
A New Tool to Report Medical Trainee Mistreatment Reveals Thorny Issues Small group of Mount Sinai faculty were responsible for half of unprofessional behavior reports Dec 02, 2022
Why the Now-Dominant BQ COVID Strains Are Cause for Concern Increasing cases from BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 expected in the coming months Dec 02, 2022
Looming Physician Pay Cut 'Unprecedented' and 'Unconscionable,' AMA President Says Number of doctors who take Medicare patients could dwindle without Congressional action Dec 02, 2022
Heart Failure From Meth Use: Growing Beast Lurks in the Shadows Exact scope of problem still unknown due to low clinician awareness Dec 02, 2022
To Combat Opioid Epidemic, Step Up Safe Prescribing Practices, Expert Urges Overprescribing a continuing problem, Benjamin Davies tells urologists Dec 02, 2022
Hospitals Can Help Patients 'Get Connected' The Affordable Connectivity Program enables telehealth access for vulnerable patients Dec 02, 2022
Do We Still Need to Quarantine With COVID? While COVID still distinguishes itself from other illnesses, those days may be numbered Dec 02, 2022
New IDH1 Inhibitor Wins FDA Approval for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Olutasidenib led to a 35% response rate in a study of adults with previously treated AML Dec 02, 2022
Healthcare's Unspoken Sick-Day Rules Unchanged by the Pandemic Workplace COVID policies have changed, but attitudes toward coming into work sick have not Dec 01, 2022
Which Respiratory Virus Do I Have? There's a range of possibilities, and it's not easy to tell them apart Dec 01, 2022
Overactive Bladder Linked to Multiple Unmet Socioeconomic Needs Findings reinforce existing evidence, identify novel factors, suggest future research Dec 01, 2022
Stop Passing Off Politics as Evidenced-Based Medicine Scientific results cannot be understood through a framework of rigid political doctrine Dec 01, 2022
Still Using Medical Jargon? Prepare to Be Misunderstood Survey shows just how often individuals misinterpret common medical phrases Dec 01, 2022
