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Senate Committee Shines Spotlight on VA's Troubled EHR Program

Concerns raised about patient safety, cost overruns

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Phone Calls Spot Early Alzheimer's

Predictive model identified vocal features of dementia patients from everyday speech

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COVID-19 Lockdown in Uganda Increased Gender-Based Violence

Sexual attacks, HIV exposure, and teen pregnancies all showed upticks, study found

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A Patient Care App Diagnosed Me With Cancer

No one should receive a serious diagnosis this way -- not even a doctor like myself

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Safety Concerns Turn FDA Panel Thumbs Down for Novel CKD-Anemia Drug

Advisory committee rejected oral anemia drug for dialysis and non-dialysis patient populations

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'Acceptable' Lead in Drinking Water May Still Be Harmful to Patients With CKD

No safe amount of lead in water for those with kidney disease, researchers warn

The U.S. Fumbled the Early COVID Response in Two Major Ways

Marty Makary, MD, and Andy Slavitt review those initial strategies and public health messages

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PURE Study Points Finger at Processed, Fatty Foods in IBD

But expert serves up a heaping helping of caveats to the findings

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Brain Implant Translates Neural Signals Into Sentences

Neuroprosthesis decodes input from brain to vocal tract in stroke patient who cannot speak

A shirtless homeless man in Vancouver鈥檚 Downtown Eastside with a syringe in his mouth readies to inject himself with drugs.

Clearing the Hurdles to Safe Injection Facilities

Rhode Island the first state to authorize a pilot program, but how likely is it others will follow

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Anti-Vax Pediatrician Is Back in Business, Kind Of

Restrictions will require previously suspended doctor to stay mum on vaccine protocols

INVESTIGATIVE ROUNDUP over an image of two people looking at computer screens.

Company Shut Down Robot Mid-Surgery; Infected in Quarantine; Investigating Aduhelm

This past week in healthcare investigations

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Medicine Through Abuelita鈥檚 Eyes

Patients are better off when treated with empathy and care

A young male physician in blue scrubs sits on a bed in the dark looking for his pager.

Physicians: Stop Dreading Call

How to banish those negative thoughts and make them positive

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Ivermectin and Aducanumab: Do They Work?

ZDoggMD and Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, analyze the evidence

A close up of an endoscope held in a doctor鈥檚 blue-gloved hands.

Did Getting a Colonoscopy Lead to Cleaner Living?

Results varied by severity of screening findings, researchers found

A woman in a hospital bed experiencing labor pains during childbirth.

Low-Weight Babies Delivered Early Do Worse in School

Results highlight a need to assess long-term outcomes of obstetric interventions, experts say

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Slow Steroid Tapering Succeeds in SLE

Flare rates were significantly lower with gradual withdrawal than with low-dose maintenance

Doctors Went Unpaid for a Month of Work

Emergency physicians' $140K invoice languished after bankruptcy, buyout

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Vascular Function: Another Benefit of Bariatric Surgery

Macrovascular, microvascular gains accrue for nearly all patient groups

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Which Came First: Low Testosterone Levels or Severe COVID-19?

Italian data suggest a dose-response association

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Beta Variant May Be Deadlier, South African Hospital Data Suggests

Increases in hospitalizations, deaths in country's second COVID-19 wave

A diverse group of young female campers make heart shapes with their hands under a hand painted WELCOME TO CAMP FELIX sign.

Dear Parents, Kids Need Camp

Providers should talk to parents about summer camp precautions that can keep kids safe and healthy

A young boy with a bandaged head lies in bed next to his sleeping mother.

ADHD Linked to Kids' Traumatic Brain Injury Severity

But overall, children with ADHD were more likely to experience TBI

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Walmart's Low-Price Insulin Is a Band-Aid on a Broken System

Exorbitant drug pricing and inaccessible care require government intervention

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Some Liver Transplant Patients Got Hepatitis B From Donors

Injection drug use may be mostly to blame, researcher says

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The Rise of Non-Traditional Nursing

Is it time to shift your professional focus?

EAU over a computer rendering of a transparent body with the urinary tract highlighted in yellow.

Support for MRI-Targeted Biopsy in Prostate Cancer Screening

Large Swedish study showed the approach cut overdiagnosis, unnecessary biopsies

FDA APPROVED finerenone (Kerendia) over a computer rendering of a diseased kidney and a healthy kidney.

Finerenone OK'd for Slowing Kidney Disease in T2D

Drug also indicated for cardiovascular event risk reduction

The vial and packaging of Aduhelm (aducanumab) for injection with blurred prescribing information in the background.

Alzheimer's Aducanumab Prescribing Information Changes

"We as neurologists need a strategy to advise our patients," experts say

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Tulane's Graduate Medical Education Programs Put on Probation

Decision follows public outrage over alleged racism and gender discrimination at the university

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How Many People Skipped Their Second COVID Shot?

New CDC data say 15 million people in the U.S. have not completed their vaccination series

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Empathy: The Most Critical Skill in Medicine

Caring for a patient means putting yourself in their shoes

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'Can You Explain Why You鈥檙e Sending Me to the ICU?'

Doctor-turned-patient reflects on empathy in medicine after harrowing birth of her child

A chart showing estrogen levels in a female silhouette from age 25-80

Alzheimer's Biomarkers Tied to Endogenous Estrogen Exposure in Women

Longer reproductive period linked to amyloid, p-tau in cognitively normal older women

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Awaited Ivermectin Review Is Out

Findings are positive, but critics still want a large randomized controlled trial

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Doctor Reacts to Bizarre 'Health Hacks' Videos

Diving into the world of YouTube clickbait

ESMO GI over a computer rendering of an endoscope illuminating a tumor in a stomach

Response Soars With Anti-PD-1 Drug for HER2-Positive Stomach Cancer

Almost 50% relative increase in ORR with pembrolizumab plus trastuzumab and chemotherapy

A tired male healthcare worker in scrubs and PPE sits in a folding chair and rubs his eyes in a dark room.

You're Not Alone in Your Darkest Hours

Ending the silence on mental health can save the lives of our peers, our patients, and ourselves

A senior man grimaces with fear as he is about to get vaccinated.

Patients Want COVID Shot From Their Primary Care Docs

But both patients and physicians must still overcome several barriers to care delivery

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