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• Most Memorable Gifts Received From Patients It's the holidays, and that means 'thank you' gifts from patients for your care. Here are some notable presents received by physicians.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, December 2018
• A Doctor's Rules for Other Doctors--Part 1   A new book, written by an experienced physicians to all physicians, especially younger colleagues, makes a great holiday gift suggestion.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, December 2018
• Opioids, ACA, and 'My Lane' Stoked Physicians' Interest in 2018 A Medscape survey indicates what excited, surprised, and frustrated physicians the most this year.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• Does PIONEER-HF Warrant Acute HF Indication for ARNI?   Drs Pina and Butler discuss the new findings of PIONEER-HF, a trial evaluating angiotensin-neprilysin inhibition in acute heart failure.
  theheart.org on Medscape, December 2018
• Implications of a More Timely Living Kidney Donor Evaluation What are the impacts of an earlier living kidney donor evaluation?
  American Journal of Transplantation, December 2018
• Among Physicians, Surgeons Are the Best Golfers An analysis of golfing patterns of physicians shows that men log more golfing hours than women and that some specialties are more likely to play than others.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• Parental Leave Policies Fall Short for Med School Residents Despite resident physicians being in their prime childbearing years and pushed to endure inflexible work shifts, medical schools often don't have adequate parental leave policies.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• What Do You Think About Retirement?   Is it healthier to retire or keep working? The answer may surprise you.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, December 2018
• Cannabis Use Not Harmful for Living Kidney Donors, Recipients Allowing marijuana users to be living kidney donors could safely expand the pool of available organs, according to the first-ever study comparing outcomes with marijuana-using and non-using donors.
  Reuters Health Information, December 2018
• Survival With Second Cancer After Stem Cell Transplant Tied to Cancer Type The outcome of second solid cancers following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is strongly related to cancer type, with pancreatic and lung cancer being among those with the poorest outcome, according to European researchers.
  Reuters Health Information, December 2018
• First Live Birth After Uterus Transplant From Deceased Donor With a severe shortage of live uterus donors, the potential ability to use uteri from deceased donors is seen as a 'breakthrough' development.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2018
• The Year in Medicine 2018: News That Made a Difference Read the news that got the most attention this year in medicine, including the severe flu season, record high STD incidence, gun violence, and more.
  Medscape News Slideshows, December 2018
• HSV-1 qPCR for Diagnosis of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection This study indicates that HSV qPCR is more rapid and accurate for identification of HSV-1 in lower respiratory tract specimens than viral culture and more sensitive than cytologic evaluation.
  American Journal of Clinical Pathology, December 2018
• Violence, Attacks on Doctors Plague Venezuela Hospitals -Doctors Survey After a woman died while connected to a respirator at a hospital in central Venezuela last month, one of her relatives punched the attending doctor in the chest, blaming her for the woman's death.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• The 10 Graphic Novels That Made Graphic Medicine Here are 10 can't-miss titles from the growing canon of graphic medicine.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 2018
• Viral Hepatitis: Five Highlights From the Liver Meeting Dr William Balistreri reports on the most important viral hepatitis news from this year's Liver Meeting.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 2018
• Roche Buys U.S. Biotech Jecure in Race for Liver Disease Drugs Swiss drugmaker Roche is buying U.S.-based Jecure Therapeutics, joining Pfizer, Gilead Sciences and Novartis in pursuit of new drugs to treat fatty liver disease.
  Reuters Health Information, November 2018
• Liver Transplants for Noncitizens/Nonresidents Should liver transplants be provided to non-resident patients? This editorial explores the issues.
  American Journal of Transplantation, November 2018
• Medicare Proposes Changes to Drug Pricing, Causing Some Discord CMS will allow step therapy, prior authorization for all Part D drugs. The proposal would also remove formulary prohibitions for previously protected drug classes.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018
• AHA 2018Closing Dialysis Fistula After Transplant Halts Cardiac Remodeling Arteriovenous fistula ligation in stable renal transplant recipients led to reduced LV mass and cardiac chamber size vs controls, with no harmful effects on graft function, in an early study.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2018