In Emergency Medicine, Promotion to Chief Resident Least Likely for Women of Color Black residents also less likely to be promoted than white residents Sep 24, 2024
Brett Favre Diagnosed With Neurological Disorder NFL legend made the disclosure as part of his testimony about a welfare misspending scandal Sep 24, 2024
Medicaid Might Cut Cardiovascular Risk for This One Group Negative results overall hid a benefit for some who won the insurance lottery in Oregon Sep 24, 2024
People Detained in Switzerland in Connection With Suspected 'Suicide Capsule' Death Device allows person sitting inside to push a button that injects nitrogen into sealed chamber Sep 24, 2024
Severe Obesity on the Rise in the U.S. Nearly 10% of those surveyed reported severe obesity Sep 24, 2024
COVID Drug Recall; Update on Nurse Struck by Lightning; Surrogates' Pregnancy Risks Health news and commentary gathered by staff Sep 24, 2024
CDC Alerts on Mpox Prevention for Patients Heading to Areas With Clade I Outbreaks Clinicians should urge vaccination, provide patient education to at-risk travelers Sep 23, 2024
Prolonged Symptoms After Lyme Disease: What CDC Wants Doctors to Know Validating patients' symptoms, active listening is critical to prevent "medical wandering" Sep 23, 2024
Training on Cadavers Still Essential for Medical Students Donor dissection teaches skills not easily acquired with other methods Sep 23, 2024
Euphoric 2 Years Ago, Anti-Abortion Movement Now Divided, Worried as Election Nears "Things have not necessarily unfolded as we would hope," says one abortion opponent Sep 23, 2024
Mpox: Lessons From 2022 for Future Preparedness We must be ready for possible systemic complications Sep 23, 2024
Perfecting the On-Call System Some patients clearly need emergency care, but maybe others could be triaged to primary care Sep 23, 2024
10-Minute Intervention Boosts Health Worker Well-Being Work-life integration and emotional exhaustion, recovery, and thriving all improved within 8 days Sep 23, 2024 video
Florida's New COVID Booster Guidance Is Straight-Up Misinformation, Experts Say State's health department advising against most shots Sep 23, 2024
U.S. Deaths Tied to Extreme Temps May Double, Triple by Mid-21st Century Study finds that increase in heat deaths will far outweigh reduction in cold deaths Sep 23, 2024 video
Pope's Illness; Docs Against Trump; Another Contact of Missouri H5N1 Case Fell Ill Health news and commentary gathered by staff Sep 23, 2024
Abortion Clinics -- And Patients -- Are on the Move, as State Laws Keep Shifting Clinics struggle to meet demand as thousands travel out of state for abortion care Sep 22, 2024
The Best Prescription for Safety in Pharmacy Well-being and safety in the profession have come a long way, but the work isn't done yet Sep 22, 2024
EPA Scientists Say They Were Pressured to Downplay Health Harms From Chemicals And a watchdog found they were retaliated against Sep 22, 2024
Zachary Quinto Steps Into Giant-Sized Doctor's Shoes in NBC's 'Brilliant Minds' The actor plays a character inspired by Oliver Sacks, MD, the "poet laureate of medicine" Sep 21, 2024
FTC Sues Top Pharmacy Benefit Managers Over Insulin Prices The three companies process about 80% of prescriptions in the U.S. Sep 20, 2024
Documentary Explores Racism, Gatekeeping in Nursing "People who don't fit comfortably into an environment can't thrive," director of the film says Sep 20, 2024
FDA OKs First Flu Vaccine for At-Home Use FluMist nasal spray can now be used without the help of a healthcare provider Sep 20, 2024
A Georgia Woman's Death After Delayed Abortion Care Was Preventable. Who's to Blame? Physicians need more clear guidance and protocols from their healthcare systems Sep 20, 2024
First Drug Approved for Niemann-Pick Disease Type C Arimoclomol (Miplyffa) greenlit for ultra-rare genetic disorder Sep 20, 2024
U.S. Will Let More People Take Methadone at Home This is the first update to methadone regulations in 20 years Sep 20, 2024
Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of Parkinson's Disease Risks observed for the akinetic rigid form of the disease, as well as dyskinesia Sep 20, 2024 video
COVID Czar's 'Sex Parties'; Nationwide Drug Recall; Steward CEO Held in Contempt Health news and commentary gathered by staff Sep 20, 2024
Is Healthcare Consolidation Fueling the Physician Burnout Crisis? New report finds pandemic burnout is still lingering Sep 19, 2024
House Staff Unionization Has Come in Waves Residents' efforts to organize date back some 90 years Sep 19, 2024
FDA Rejects NK1R Antagonist for Gastroparesis Drugmaker none-too-pleased with agency's request for additional studies Sep 19, 2024
After Georgia Deaths Tied to Abortion Ban, Experts Maintain Safety of Abortion Pills Facts about mifepristone and misoprostol Sep 19, 2024
Critics Call Feds' Response to Cyberattacks on Healthcare Feeble and Fractured There were 249 attacks targeting health institutions in 2023, the most of any industry Sep 19, 2024
Docs Accused of Treating Fatal COVID With Peroxide; Cardiologists' Defamation Suit A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Sep 19, 2024
Is Wegovy Shrinking Bariatric Surgery, Too? GLP-1 drugs have the potential to reduce healthcare costs in unexpected ways Sep 19, 2024
RFK Jr. Helping Trump Pick CDC Chief; Excess COVID Death Lingers; Turmoil at 23andMe Health news and commentary gathered by staff Sep 19, 2024
California Pledges to Halve Maternal Mortality By Late 2026 But how will the state with the lowest maternal mortality rate do it? Sep 18, 2024
California Clarifies Role of CRNAs Amid Scope-of-Practice Clash Letter says CRNAs can administer anesthesia that's ordered by a physician Sep 18, 2024
