Medical Staff Credentialing Case Heads to New Jersey Supreme Court Neurosurgery practice claims hospital skipped due process to orchestrate its ouster Nov 28, 2023
Ask Your Patients: 'Have You Gotten Your Annual COVID Shot?' Primary care providers should broach this topic with all patients Nov 28, 2023
Compensation Is Key to Fixing Primary Care Shortage Along with the punishing workload, pay is affecting the pipeline of primary care physicians Nov 24, 2023
Urgent Care Must Be Reexamined ... Urgently Can't we improve primary care and emergency department visits so more patients go there instead? Nov 20, 2023
Shooting at Psych Hospital; Rosalynn Carter Dies; Millions in Medical Debt Canceled Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 51˶ staff Nov 20, 2023
What to Know About Lead Toxicity and Kids' Applesauce Hospitalization for acute lead toxicity can start at 45 mcg/dL Nov 16, 2023
Here's Why People Think They Developed Food Allergies Survey finds that 13% thought genetics were responsible, 27% blamed eating behaviors Nov 16, 2023
Calls to Support Stark Law Reforms Blocked by AMA Delegates "My future is in literal jeopardy," one family physician resident says Nov 16, 2023
Unclear if Chronic Cough Drug Has Meaningful Benefit, FDA Reviewers Say Previously rejected gefapixant will face agency's panel of outside experts on Friday Nov 16, 2023
Statins Reach More Patients With Pharmacist's Orders Asynchronous automated order approach boosts statin prescribing Nov 14, 2023
Many Primary Care Docs Unfamiliar With Biologics for Asthma In a survey, 42% of PCPs said they were "not familiar" with biologic therapies for asthma Nov 13, 2023
Novel PCSK9 Inhibitor Recaticimab Lowers Lipids With Less Frequent Shots Monoclonal antibody promises substantial lipid lowering with just one injection every 3 months Nov 13, 2023
AMA Declines to Debate Resolution on Israel-Hamas Conflict "This issue is too vital for us to evade discussion," one delegate argued unsuccessfully Nov 12, 2023
Antihypertensives Do Not Detract From the BP Reduction of a Low-Sodium Diet Dietary change produces clinically relevant BP changes within a week Nov 12, 2023
And for Wegovy's Next Trick, Full-Blown Cardiovascular Benefit Outside Diabetes Established weight loss and diabetes drug may extend reach to millions more Nov 11, 2023
Consequences of Oral Anticoagulant Choice Magnified in the Frail Better outcomes seen for older adults with apixaban in Medicare data Nov 09, 2023
Lung Cancer Survival High at 20 Years With Screen-Detected Tumors After two decades, lung cancer-specific survival remained at 81% in I-ELCAP program Nov 07, 2023
Medical School on Cherokee Reservation Will Soon Send Doctors to Tribal, Rural Areas "It really comforts patients to know that someone like them is taking care of them" Nov 05, 2023
Pharmacist Prescribing for BP Control Makes Economic Sense Clinical benefits of pharmacist-prescribed antihypertensives known for years Nov 03, 2023
Transitioning Cancer Survivors Away From Oncologic Care It's time for a new model of care Nov 03, 2023
What Causes Conjunctivitis? A Panoply of Pathogens, Study Shows Despite common antibiotic use, most cases were viruses -- and pus wasn't usually a bacterial sign Nov 03, 2023
Vape Use May Have Turned a Corner Among High Schoolers Yet just under half of those who tried e-cigs still report using them in national survey Nov 02, 2023
ACS: Millions More Should Get Lung Cancer Screening Notably, new recommendations say it doesn't matter when a person quit smoking Nov 01, 2023
Using AI to Predict Exacerbations in Uncontrolled COPD This is the "wave of the future," says Reynold Panettieri Nov 01, 2023 video
Adding Nurse Care Managers in Primary Care Boosted OUD Treatment Support from leadership and treatment coverage are also critical, authors say Oct 31, 2023
Bone Density Mostly Catches Up After Adolescent Use of Gender-Affirming Hormones Researchers noted an exception in the lumbar spine among people assigned male at birth Oct 30, 2023
It's Never Too Soon to Start End-of-Life Conversations Patients can make their preferences known away from the pressures of acute illness Oct 30, 2023
Private Equity, For-Profit Interests Hurt Medicine, Conference Speakers Say Authorities have not done enough to crack down on the problem, physicians and academicians noted Oct 27, 2023
Excessive Weight Gain in Pregnancy Tied to Earlier Death 50 years of data offer insight into cardiovascular, diabetes, and all-cause mortality Oct 25, 2023
AI Can Be a Boon to Clinicians -- If Used Correctly, Says AMA President "We can provide things to make it easier for people to practice medicine," says Jesse Ehrenfeld Oct 25, 2023
Severe Asthma in Sexual and Gender Minoritized Adults: What Can We Do? Tugba Kaplan, MD, believes it is imperative to implement targeted interventions Oct 25, 2023 video
NPs No More Likely Than Physicians to Prescribe Inappropriately to Older Adults Mean rates of inappropriate prescribing by NPs, primary care doctors were "virtually identical" Oct 23, 2023
AAP Warns on So-Called Toddler Formulas Beverages are "not nutritionally complete" and not meant for kids with major illness, report says Oct 21, 2023
Albuterol-Budesonide Improves Lung Function in Asthma Fewer severe exacerbations over albuterol alone in post hoc assessment of MANDALA study Oct 18, 2023 video
Incoming AAFP President Optimistic About Family Medicine's Future Yes, there are challenges, but they can be overcome, says Steven Furr, MD Oct 18, 2023
Death After IV Vitamins; 4-Day Work Week Healthier; Blast at Gaza Hospital Kills 500 Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 51˶ staff Oct 18, 2023
Behavioral Health Concerns Common for Low-Income Kids Primary care findings suggest need for focus on prevention Oct 16, 2023
Mixed Signals for Paxlovid and Long COVID Risk in CDC Study Antiviral protected older at-risk patients, but appeared to increase risk in teens Oct 16, 2023
