'We Need It Now': AMA Delegates Urge Public Health System Funding, Support COVID-era funding is drying up as Medicaid rolls are shrinking Jun 15, 2023
Doc Accused of Groping Woman on Flight; Ob/Gyn Threatened in Prison; Equal Pay Suit A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Jun 15, 2023
Texas Law Aims to Prevent Another 'Dr. Death' New law gives medical board more teeth to protect patients from potentially dangerous doctors Jun 15, 2023
Hospital Bungled Handling of Problematic Heart Surgeon; Tumult at eRNA Firm This past week in healthcare investigations Jun 14, 2023
Medical Board Files Complaint Against Mary Talley Bowden Board alleges unprofessional conduct, violations of standard of care Jun 13, 2023
Here's the Hydration Advice You Can Ignore Should you drink beyond your thirst? And does urine color really matter? Jun 13, 2023
Vaccine Candidate for Chikungunya Virus Safe and Effective Phase III trial shows seroprotective antibody levels at 6 months in adults Jun 13, 2023
States Must Stop Criminalizing Medicine, AMA Delegates Say "This is unacceptable...and it's time for us to push back" Jun 11, 2023
Hooray! A Clearer Estimate of Your Risk for Death Is Here Researchers do the legwork to incorporate smoking status into NCI's "Know Your Chances" website Jun 09, 2023
Did FDA Apply Rigorous Standards in Approving Paxlovid? Evidence for all relevant studies should be accessible Jun 09, 2023
Video of Stem Cell Injection Alarms Doctors In the video, a wrestler receives an injection in his carotid artery at a clinic in Mexico Jun 09, 2023
Daylong N95 Masking Alters Heart Rate, Respiration However, observations do not fall into territory of harm, according to exercise physiologists Jun 09, 2023
Foot Doc's Second Murder-for-Hire Accusation; Doc Accused of Drugging, Raping Women A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Jun 08, 2023
How Vax Skeptics Sow Doubt; Gun Death Every 11 Minutes; 90210 Star's Cancer Spreads Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Â鶹´«Ã½ staff Jun 08, 2023
Antibody for Infant RSV Prevention to Face FDA Panel Nirsevimab shot also a possibility for some at-risk toddlers Jun 06, 2023
How I Became a Physician on Food Stamps Expanded SNAP work requirements will do more harm than good Jun 06, 2023
Kratom Linked to Outsized Proarrhythmic Risks OTC agents are not safe alternatives to prescription opioids, study suggests Jun 05, 2023
When You Know Better, Do Better for People With Disabilities Anti-DEI laws harm care for a broad range of marginalized groups Jun 03, 2023
'If the Narcan Isn't Working, Give More' and Other Myths About Naloxone Use In non-responsive patients, think polysubstance use, says addiction treatment expert Kelly Ramsey Jun 02, 2023
Is Berberine Really 'Nature's Ozempic'? An obesity medicine specialist shares his insights on the new social media craze Jun 02, 2023
Fired COVID Whistleblower Doesn't Want to Settle His Case Ming Lin, MD, says he wants an admission of wrongdoing instead of millions Jun 01, 2023
Nurse Accused of Killing Patients With Insulin; Naturopath Settles False Claims Suit A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Jun 01, 2023
Dangerous Atherectomy Boom? Docs Pay to Avoid Punishment; Fake Part Inflated Prices This past week in healthcare investigations. May 31, 2023
Addressing Burnout in an Invisible Part of the Health Workforce PH-HERO program aims to battle stresses faced by state public health departments May 30, 2023
We Shouldn't Carry the Full Weight of Responsibility for Our Own Workplace Safety The government must do more to prevent violence against healthcare workers May 30, 2023
Overuse of Some Disinfectants Can Do More Harm Than Good Health systems must eliminate unnecessary uses of QACs May 30, 2023
Neurologic Events After COVID-19 Vaccines Assessed Study finds preexisting risk factors in all patients hospitalized for neurologic symptoms May 26, 2023
Medicaid Expansion Tied to Better Outcomes in Black Patients With GI Cancers Two-year mortality decreased for three types of GI cancer in expansion vs non-expansion states May 25, 2023
Long COVID Now Has a Framework to Define It 12 key symptoms identify the disorder, U.S. researchers say May 25, 2023
How Black Americans Lost 80 Million Years of Life Over the Past Two Decades Groundbreaking study finds 1.63 million excess deaths in U.S. Black population over 22 years May 24, 2023 video
High-Quality Foster Care Protects Tots From Psychological Harms of Deprivation Kids had better cognition, psychopathology than those who remained in institutional care May 23, 2023
More Anti-Abortion Content on YouTube Than TikTok But both platforms had similar proportions of videos that contained medical misinformation May 23, 2023
Leading Through Crisis at the WHO Soumya Swaminathan, MD, discusses COVID misinformation and being the WHO's first chief scientist May 23, 2023 podcast
New Type of Opioid Reversal Agent Approved Longer-acting nasal spray to be available by end of the year May 23, 2023
Family Gun Culture May Play a Role in Teens' Risk of Firearm Suicide Clinicians need to start conversations about gun access, researcher urges May 22, 2023
Chronic Pain Detected in the Brain for the First Time Real-world signals were seen mostly in the orbitofrontal cortex May 22, 2023
From Botched Buttocks to Botulism Insidious threats continue to plague the global cosmetic bazaar May 22, 2023
FDA 'Leans In' to Accelerated Approval for Rare Disease Drugs CBER director says "moment is tender for gene therapy," sees opportunity to "salvage" treatments May 19, 2023
After Cluster, CDC Urges Mpox Vaccination in At-Risk Groups Studies showed high level of protection with two doses of mpox vaccine May 18, 2023
