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Mental Health: The New 'Coming Out' in Medicine

Openness about challenges with anxiety, depression can help fight the stigma

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How Space Doctors Train on Earth

A look at analog missions

FDA WARNING Eco-Med Ultrasound Gels and Lotions over a photo of a bottle of EcoGel 200 ultrasound gel.

FDA Warns on Contamination Risk With Eco-Med Ultrasound Gels

Healthcare providers must toss all of company's gels and lotions, agency says

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Emergency Medicine Residents Report High Rates of Mistreatment

Large survey study also found that such experiences were linked to increased suicidality

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Things Bad Doctors Say

Don't be like this

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Alabama Doc Puts His Foot Down on the Unvaccinated

Jason Valentine hopes to reach those unwilling to get the COVID vaccine by turning them away

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More Teens Are Trying to Quit Vaping Than Ever Before

Over half of adolescent e-cigarette users want to quit and have tried to quit, new study shows

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

Pharmacist Charged for Vax Card Sales; Moderna Recipe Fight; Drug Waste Report COIs

This past week in healthcare investigations

FDA APPROVED over a computer rendering of a tumor.

FDA Grants Tissue-Agnostic Approval to Dostarlimab for dMMR Tumors

Overall response rate of 41.6% in various tumor types with mismatch repair deficiency

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Bullying Impedes Clinical Training for Nurse Anesthetists

"When you are walking on eggshells, you're less focused on learning"

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Stop Resisting the 'Imposter' Inside of You

Let go and take on challenges

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Seven Cognitive Distortions Poisoning COVID Debates

Our society is more and more incapable of debating real issues

Rebrand of Nurse Anesthetists Met With Criticism From Physician Group

The American Society of Anesthesiologists called the name change "medical title misappropriation"

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Pot Smokers Face Distinct Risks After Coronary Procedures

But could marijuana use be associated with fewer cases of acute kidney injury?

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Medicine Doesn't Stop at the Bedside

Medical organizations and physicians should play an active role in advancing positive change

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Health IT Needs to Play Catchup With Customer Service for Patients

"In terms of getting data to the patient ... healthcare is quite a ways behind"

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Why Are There So Few People of Color in Nursing?

Panel discusses how to diversify the workforce

FDA APPROVED calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium oxybates (Xywav) over a photo of a young woman asleep at her computer.

First Drug OK'd for Idiopathic Hypersomnia

Sleep drug Xywav gains a new indication

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Is Financial Freedom for Doctors Possible?

Making a few financially savvy decisions as an attending can get you there

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Health IT a Mixed Blessing During the Pandemic

Has helped with patient care, but pay attention to the burnout it can cause, experts urge

HCA Hit With Antitrust Suit Over High Prices

Lawsuit focusing on Mission Health eyes past merger tactics, ignored price transparency rule

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Viral Claims at Mt. Vernon School Board Meeting Debunked

ZDoggMD responds to video of Dan Stock, MD

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Notice Any Rule Changes in Washington? You Can Thank COVID

"It's opened a Pandora's box, which is not going back"

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Can a Doctor Have a Personality?

Yes, but it's a double-edged scalpel

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Medicare's Radiation Oncology Payment Model Vexes Oncology Community

Participation required for certain radiation oncology practices starting next January

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Is Delta Also More Severe in Kids?

Data are in short supply, but hard-hit children's hospitals are sounding alarms

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U.S. Kids Chowed Down on Highly Processed Foods

Majority of energy intake came from ready-to-eat, ultraprocessed foods in 1999-2018

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UNMC Mourns Surgeon Killed in Plane Crash

James Edney, former chief of the division of surgical oncology, was piloting the small aircraft

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CMS Proposes to Rescind 'Most Favored Nation' Drug Pricing Rule

Regulation from Trump administration had been barred from taking effect due to court challenges

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Roche, Abbott COVID Antigen Tests Just So-So in Real-World Data

"Unsatisfactory" for screening asymptomatic people, say German lab professionals

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Kathy Griffin's Early-Stage Lung Cancer

A closer look at diagnosis in "never-smokers"

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For So Long, I Put Up With the Abuse

The poor treatment of nurses by patients and hospitals needs to change

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Is Your Health Organization Reeling From a Bad EHR?

Here are five ways to fix it

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All Eyes on FDA: The Upcoming Regulation of Juul E-Cigarettes

Will the public health be protected?

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Lawsuit: Doc Using Old Baylor Affiliation While Dishing COVID Vax Falsehoods

Baylor Scott & White Health says Peter McCullough, MD, used former title during media interviews

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The Delta Surge May Collapse Faster Than You Think

ZDoggMD explains the reason why

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HHS's Climate Change Office: Not Open Yet, but Getting Positive Reviews

Initial steps "highly encouraging," says one expert

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Teaching Biological Sex and Gender to Med Students: What's Really Going On?

A controversial blog post has stirred intense debate among the medical community

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Here Are This Year's Top 10 Medical Schools

The latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report

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New Data on Opioids for Chronic Pain: Less Than Meets the Eye?

Unclear what, if anything, new NCHS report means

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