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Family Alleges Profit Motives Played Role in 3-Year-Old's Death

Parents charge care delays for child with hydrocephalus were tied to arrangements for star doctor

Breast Cancer Screening During COVID Reveals Inequities

Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, discusses new findings and his takeaway

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Op-Ed: Love Can Conquer Trauma

My wife helped me heal old mental wounds

Trust in Healthcare System Needs Rebuilding, Internal Medicine Group Says

Scientists have to stop believing that we'll change minds with more data, adds president & CEO

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Op-Ed: Diabetes Is Not an Equal Opportunity Killer

Policy change and community intervention can help fight disparities

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Evaluating Tech for Clinical Use

What factors should you consider?

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Op-Ed: Down With the Gatekeepers of Medicine

Educators should be mentors, rather than weeding out those they deem unfit

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Op-Ed: Let the Olympic Games Be Canceled

Amid continued crisis, now is not the time for celebrating athletic achievement

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Nurses Union Blasts 'Dangerous' CDC Mask Guidance

NNU charges CDC used unreliable data and disregarded variant threat, low vaccination rates

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Op-Ed: How Not to Message the Public on COVID Vaccines

A "cringe-inducing" public service announcement with doctors and nurses

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Here's Why This Doc Got a Third Vaccine Dose

A transplant surgeon, a heart recipient himself, saw robust antibody response after third dose

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Op-Ed: 'Yes, I Am the Surgeon,' She Said

Growing recognition of women as surgeons starts with changes in healthcare systems

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CHS Sues Thousands of Patients; Hospital Parking Fees Under Fire; Trump-Era Emails

This past week in healthcare investigations

'Talents' Land U.S. Researcher in Prison

Ohio MD pleaded guilty to lying on grant applications, planned to share research with China

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Op-Ed: This Doc Has 'Post-Litigation Stress Disorder'

The legal system versus the doctor-patient relationship

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Burnout in Cardiology; Restrictive Transfusion Foiled; and Other News From ACC

Highlights from the scientific program of the American College of Cardiology meeting

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The Problem With Prestige

An excerpt from "Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients"

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Op-Ed: Will the Real COVID Experts Please Stand Up?

A core set of principles separate those who make good and bad policy decisions

People lined up for covid-19 vaccination outside of Mayor鈥檚 Health Clinic in Chetla, Kolkata India in April 2021.

Indian States Turn to Ivermectin in COVID Crisis

Two states give anti-parasitic preventatively to large swaths of population despite warnings

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Can COVID-19 Genes Integrate Into Human DNA?

Debate rages over whether SARS-CoV-2 can insert bits of its RNA into the human genome

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Stubborn Gaps in Heart Failure Persist Despite Clinician Education, Feedback

Guideline-directed medical therapy underuse still a problem in CONNECT-HF trial

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The Life Cycle of Emotion in Medicine

Perspectives change throughout a career

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Review ID's Racism During Care of Black Doctor Who Died of COVID

"Lack of empathy, compassion, and awareness of implicit racial bias," external review concludes

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Most COVID Patients Landing in Hospitals Aren't Fully Vaccinated

Reports from Cleveland Clinic, other health systems starting to roll in

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Op-Ed: Make America Maskless Again?

ZDoggMD thinks we're reaching the COVID tipping point, here's why

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Bloated Notes Are a Time Suck

Why do we do it to ourselves?

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Harassment Charges Fly at LSU Medical School

Women say leadership fostered a culture of harassment, discrimination, retaliation

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Therapists Distracted by Social Media While Delivering Virtual Care

Small survey finds 39% of therapists check email, social media during sessions

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Indian Variant a Global Risk; Good News on U.S. Cases; Baylor Expert Gets Threats

A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine

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First COVID Treatment Ads Hit the Airwaves

Regeneron hoping patients ask their doctors about monoclonal antibodies

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Op-Ed: Don't Overdose on COVID Optimism

As the pandemic drags on, we can all take a cue from this Vietnam-era admiral's "paradox"

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Toxic Cardiology Culture Pervasive Worldwide, ACC Survey Finds

No group was immune to hostile work conditions, but women and young doctors got the worst of it

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Asthma Med Adherence: Do High Insurance Deductibles Make a Difference?

Study findings may surprise you

Post-Vax Adverse Events; Blood Groups and Disease: It's TTHealthWatch!

Also this week: nanoparticle vaccine for COVID and dexamethasone for surgical site infections

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Physicians: Heal Yourself First

Treat yourself like you treat your patients

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The Death of One Little Girl Helped Millions

A case more than 35 years ago has spurred discoveries ever since

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Screaming Patient, No Restraints

The empathy idea in emergency psychiatry

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Op-Ed: Death Is the New Normal in India

The COVID crisis in my country has been a long time coming

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Ohio Surgeon Pens His Own Hilarious Obit

Thomas Flanigan wrote his own "shocking and unexpected, yet fabulous, exit"

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Tracking the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2

What do scientists know about its behavior, and how does that help predict what comes next?

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