'Modest' Erectile Dysfunction Benefit With GLP-1 Agonist Dulaglutide didn't improve pre-existing symptoms, but did prevent some new cases Jun 23, 2021
Subsys Doc Gets 5 Years; Docs Take Billions From Device Makers; Child Abuse Law This past week in healthcare investigations Jun 23, 2021
Healthcare Part of White House Plan for Preventing Gun Violence Intervention programs aim to help likely perpetrators "get their lives on a different track" Jun 23, 2021
Do We Still Need Office Visits? It's time to look beyond our traditional modes of care delivery Jun 22, 2021
Can Cannabis Use Lead to Suicidal Thoughts? Survey data showed increasing suicidal behaviors among young adults over prior decade Jun 22, 2021
Unusual Variant of Guillain-Barré Syndrome Linked to COVID Vaccines Experts call for relationship between adenovirus vector vaccines and GBS to be studied Jun 22, 2021
Q&A: How Patients Can Get Wise to Bad Billing Practices Marshall Allen discusses how patients and providers can fight back against medical overbilling Jun 22, 2021
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 Jun 22, 2021
Pain Persists in RA, Even Without Inflammation At 5 years, one-third of patients with rheumatoid arthritis still had "unacceptable" pain Jun 22, 2021
Can't Get Schoolkids to Eat a Decent Lunch? Keep Them at the Table Small trial confirms suggestions from observational studies Jun 22, 2021
Levothyroxine Overused for Less Severe Hypothyroidism Few new prescriptions were for patients with overt hypothryoidism, researchers found Jun 21, 2021
Gender-Affirming Surgical Fellowships Gaining Steam in the U.S. Since 2017, number of programs offering multidisciplinary training has grown from one to eight Jun 21, 2021
Birthdays: Cake, Ice Cream ... and Increased COVID Risk? Study makes a link, but public health implications hard to see Jun 21, 2021
Best Pediatric Endocrinology Hospitals; Standards of Diabetes Care Updated News and commentary from the endocrinology world Jun 20, 2021
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 Jun 19, 2021
Can a Personality Test Make You a Better Doctor? You might be surprised what you can uncover to enrich your career Jun 19, 2021
No Survival Benefit With All-Oral Regimen for Relapsed/Refractory Myeloma Prolonging PFS a positive, as advances make OS improvement harder to achieve Jun 18, 2021
Does Grandma Need Surgery for That Broken Wrist? Randomized trial findings should help in decision-making Jun 18, 2021
AMA Debates Value of Natural Immunity to COVID Should those who have had a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection receive vaccination credentials? Jun 17, 2021
Hopeful Dads Can Relax About COVID Vax: No Link to Infertility The real threat to male sexual health is COVID-19 itself, says study author Jun 17, 2021
First Close Look at Presumed Myocarditis Cases After COVID Vaccination Case reports suggest a favorable clinical course after hospitalization Jun 17, 2021
Is Old Vaccine Technology the Key to Hesitancy? Experts weigh whether Novavax's protein subunit strategy can convince some COVID vaccine holdouts Jun 17, 2021
SCOTUS Dismisses Threat to Obamacare Once More "If anybody's going to change the [ACA], it's going to have to be Congress," says legal expert Jun 17, 2021
Obesity Ups Risk of Erosive Esophagitis in Middle-Age Adults Japanese study researchers note it may also increase risk for GERD Jun 16, 2021
Start Thinking 'Cure'; One More Hug; Mortgages and Breast Cancer Survival News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Jun 16, 2021
Fixed-Duration, All-Oral Regimen Slows CLL Progression Near-80% reduction in PFS hazard with ibrutinib-venetoclax versus obinutuzumab-chlorambucil Jun 16, 2021
The FDA Is Failing the American People The agency's recent decision to approve aducanumab offers more evidence of a broken system Jun 16, 2021
Remember Your 'Why,' New AMA President Tells Delegates Gerald Harmon, MD, sworn in as AMA's 176th president Jun 16, 2021
Howie Mandel 'Living in a Nightmare' With OCD Comedian wants to remove the stigma of his illness Jun 15, 2021
It's Time to End the USMLE Step 3 Exam It's a redundant and harmful entity on the path of medical education Jun 15, 2021
One in Five Inpatients Needing Endoscopy Experienced Delays Single-center study identified predictors for delay, readmission Jun 15, 2021
Rapid Genetic Testing May Have Spared This Baby From Death Whole-genome sequencing delivered diagnosis in record 13 hours; treated with thiamine Jun 15, 2021
Stop Exploiting Suicide For Political Gain False claims have driven moral panic during the COVID pandemic Jun 15, 2021
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 Jun 15, 2021
ACP: Pump the Brakes on New Organ Procurement Method Organization says NRP-cDCD may violate dead-donor rule Jun 15, 2021
Child Mental Health Crisis Needs Attention, AMA Delegates Say "The pandemic exacerbated a problem we already had and made it a catastrophe" Jun 15, 2021
Effort to Strengthen AMA Anti-Discrimination Policy Encounters Resistance Critics of the draft resolution wonder if it's a "bridge too far" Jun 15, 2021
Several Factors Contribute to GI Bleeding Mortality Risk Patients hospitalized due to GI bleeding less likely to die from it, French researchers found Jun 14, 2021
