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• Medscape RN/LPN Compensation Report 2023 RNs and LPNs reveal their annual compensation and work satisfaction, and give perspectives on peers, career paths, and unions, plus other crucial insights.
  Medscape News Slideshows, September 28, 2023
• How Baseball Led Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to His AFib Diagnosis It wasn’t like one of basketball’s greatest to feel lightheaded, tired, and short of breath. But did he brush off these serious cardiovascular symptoms?
  WebMD, September 28, 2023
• Contribution of Alcohol Use in HIV/HCV Co-infection to Mortality Does the association between alcohol use and all-cause mortality in persons with HIV differ by HCV status?
  Journal of Viral Hepatitis, September 27, 2023
• Medscape Young Physician Compensation Report 2023 Doctors younger than 40 years enjoyed healthy pay increases on average in 2022. They reveal how salary gains affected their job satisfaction as well as the gender pay gap.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, September 26, 2023
• Healthcare Workers More Likely to Die by Suicide   Who has the highest suicide rate among all healthcare provider types? A new study answers this question.
  Medscape, September 26, 2023
• Perception of PrEP-Related Stigma in PrEP Users This paper provides insight into how PrEP users perceive PrEP-related stigma and identifies the factors associated with this perception.
  HIV Medicine, September 22, 2023
• COVID, Flu, RSV: How the Tripledemic Impacts Your Practice   This fall's ‘tripledemic’ is already filling offices with COVID-19, flu and RSV patients. Renowned expert Dr. Eric Topol discusses the vaccine landscape to help you tackle your patients' questions.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 21, 2023
• Love and Sex in the Nursing Home? Ethicist Says, 'Why Not?'   Art Caplan, PhD, discusses when to intervene and when to stay out of it regarding sexual relationships in a nursing home.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, September 21, 2023
• Infographic: Residents' Bank Accounts Fatten After Lean Years Medical residents report on their average compensation, what they earn at different stages of residency, how much pay they think they deserve, and how much student loan debt they carry.
  Medscape, September 21, 2023
• Italy's Resilience Plan for Healthcare Is Falling Apart A plan intended to bolster Italy's healthcare system immediately attracted critics and is now the target of funding cuts.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 21, 2023
• Atorvastatin vs Aspirin in People With HIV Which of these two drugs are better at reducing HIV-associated inflammation, and in turn, the risk for cardiovascular disease?
  AIDS, September 21, 2023
• Reignite Professional Passion Through Lifestyle Medicine In this age of ubiquitous burnout in the health professions, lifestyle medicine fosters clinician healing.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 20, 2023
• Alert European Commission Authorizes GSK's HIV Prevention Drug The European Commission has authorized cabotegravir long-acting injectable and tablets, the British drugmaker said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, September 19, 2023
• Primary Care Can Lead Way to HIV Prevention Primary care clinicians can provide optimal preventive care for patients at risk of contracting HIV.
  Medscape Medical News, September 19, 2023
• Laboratory Testing: No Doctor Required?   This week, Dr F. Perry Wilson reveals some of the downstream consequences of the recent explosion in direct-to-consumer lab testing.
  Medscape, September 19, 2023
• Do Docs Have a Right to Work From Home Due to Health Issues? A radiologist with a health condition sued his hospital to be able to work remotely. Find out what happened and what to do if you're in this situation and your accommodation request is denied.
  Medscape Medical News, September 19, 2023
• The Top Tax Breaks That Physicians Use Physicians told us which tax deductions they most often use when preparing their annual tax return.
  Medscape Medical News, September 19, 2023
• Medscape Resident Salary & Debt Report 2023 Medical residents weigh in on their compensation and its fairness, work benefits, school debt load, work weeks, and other aspects of their training lives.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, September 13, 2023
• 25 Once-in-a-Lifetime Bucket List Vacations Many are deciding that now's the time to visit some far-off amazing places for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We offer some options to help you choose your dream vacation.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, September 13, 2023
• Cost-effectiveness of Treating All HBV+ Individuals in the U.S. This analysis suggests that expanding efforts to diagnose and treat individuals chronically infected with HBV would be cost-effective and provide a positive return on investment.
  Journal of Viral Hepatitis, September 13, 2023
• As MOC Debate Heats Up, Cardiology Societies Weigh In The MOC process is once again under attack by cardiologists and other specialty physicians. A petition aiming to end the requirements has garnered more than 17,000 and counting signatures.
  Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2023
• Patient Identified Who Battled COVID for 505 Days An immunocompromised patient was identified with persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection lasting 505 days, the longest known to date.
  Medscape News UK, April 22, 2022
• HIV Glasgow 2020
  August 15, 2021