(MedPage Today) -- Another week, another series of mass shootings in America leaving two dozen dead in three states. Having spent my career on the frontlines as a trauma surgeon and gun violence prevention researcher, I want to highlight a ... [Continue Reading]
Extended BMI Charts Help Address the Pediatric Obesity Crisis
(MedPage Today) -- As a pediatric endocrinologist, I am acutely aware of our country's surging and highly alarming childhood obesity rates. What has been a growing epidemic for decades has catapulted into a full-blown pediatric health crisis ... [Continue Reading]
Med Schools Withdraw from U.S. News List, but Say Hospital Rankings Are Separate
(MedPage Today) -- A number of high-performing medical schools that have withdrawn from the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings also have related hospitals that also regularly top the outlet's "Best Hospitals" list. So, what might ... [Continue Reading]
Evusheld No Longer Authorized for COVID Prevention
(MedPage Today) -- Tixagevimab-cilgavimab (Evusheld) lost authorization for use in the U.S. to prevent COVID-19 until further notice, the FDA announced on Thursday. The agency revised the monoclonal antibody cocktail's emergency use ... [Continue Reading]
Leading Healthcare Through Relationships
(MedPage Today) -- "The Doctor's Art" is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on ... [Continue Reading]
Are Doctors or Professional Athletes Better Off Financially?
(MedPage Today) -- I've always loved playing and watching sports of all kinds. So, it may make sense that I'm also interested in the financial lives of professional athletes. And the more I learned, the more I realized how similar they are to ... [Continue Reading]
The Face of Today’s Doctors; Opting Out of Medicare
(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to this week's edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the web to help you learn what's next.Upgrade your private practice with ... [Continue Reading]
Death by 10,000 Clicks: The Electronic Health Record
(MedPage Today) -- Electronic health records (EHRs), once promised to revolutionize healthcare, are becoming a burden. We audited the EHR logs at our institution, University of California San Francisco, to examine the work of our neurosurgery ... [Continue Reading]
Experts Say Tracking Pathogens in Sewage Works, but Needs Sustained Investment
(MedPage Today) -- Surveillance of wastewater systems proved useful during the COVID-19 pandemic and merits further investment to respond to future threats, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and ... [Continue Reading]
Fewer Emergency Department Visits End With Opioid Prescriptions
(MedPage Today) -- Fewer emergency department (ED) visits end with a prescription for opioids, CDC survey data showed. The percentage of ED visits with an opioid prescribed at discharge fell from 12.2% in 2017-2018 to 8.1% in 2019-2020, ... [Continue Reading]
Physicians vs Patients: Providing Abortion Care Post-Roe
(MedPage Today) -- In this video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, sits down with Jamila Perritt, MD, MPH, and Kristyn Brandi, MD, to discuss providing ob/gyn care in the post-Roe landscape. Perritt and Brandi talk through ... [Continue Reading]
Using Recalled Devices to Approve New Ones; Inpatient Safety
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences ... [Continue Reading]
The Unfulfilled Promise of Cannabis for Cancer-Related Symptoms
(MedPage Today) -- There is a stark contrast between the excitement and promise surrounding the therapeutic use of cannabis -- defined here as any product derived from the plant Cannabis sativa, such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or ... [Continue Reading]
CDC, FDA Flag Early Signal of Stroke Risk With Bivalent COVID Vaccine
(MedPage Today) -- An early signal of stroke risk was detected in older adults who received Pfizer-BioNTech's bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, the FDA and CDC announced in a joint statement late on Friday, yet the agencies found no link in further ... [Continue Reading]
5 Happiest Types of Doctors
(MedPage Today) -- Over the last few years, the global pandemic has highlighted many of the long-standing issues within medicine. With all of this negativity, you might think that medicine is a dying career or that all physicians are ... [Continue Reading]
Expected Price Hikes for COVID Vaccines a Topic of Concern at White House, Congress
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- The federal government is "doing everything it can" to prevent COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers from unduly hiking the price of their products once the federal government stops providing vaccines free of ... [Continue Reading]