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• Psychiatrists Earning Less but Remain Happy at Work On average, psychiatrists earned $13,000 less this year than last, yet most are satisfied in their career, findings from Medscape's newly released physician compensation report shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Do You Talk to Your Patients About Advance Care Planning? A new report found that less than 3% of physicians are using ACP codes for Medicare beneficiaries.
  Medscape Reader Polls, April 2019
• Clinicians' Comfort Levels Low With Life Expectancy Discussions Fewer than half of physicians and nurses report in a Medscape poll that they frequently have such talks with older patients who have chronic illnesses. Patients also often put off the discussions.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Cancers, Infectious Diseases Get Large Portion of New Drugs A report also shows that nearly half of all drugs launched in 2018 were approved after trials with fewer than 500 participants, as the need grows for niche treatments. Mean development is 13.7 years.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Lawmaker Under Fire for Questioning Rural Nurses' Work Ethic Washington State Senator Maureen Walsh's comments that nurses "probably play cards for a considerable amount of the day" sparked backlash on social media. She has apologized.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Mental Health Apps Often Share Data Without Users' Knowledge Many top-ranked apps for depression and smoking cessation share data with third parties without adequately disclosing this information to users.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Alert Mislabeled Fentanyl Patches Spark Nationwide Recall Two lots of transdermal patches from the Fentanyl Transdermal System for pain management are being voluntarily recalled by the manufacturer because of product mislabeling.
  News Alerts, April 2019
• Personalize Diabetes Eating Plans, ADA Advises According to a new statement from the American Diabetes Association, there is no one-size-fits-all eating plan for patients with diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• CMS Offers New Risk-Based Payment Methods to PCPs The government hopes that a quarter of Medicare primary care providers will participate in programs with shared-savings and capitation arrangements. It also has launched program to prepay large organizations.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Metformin May Stop Weight Regain After Initial Loss 'Those who lost weight initially after 1 year had remarkable maintenance of the weight loss with metformin,' said the senior author of a 15-year observational study.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Influenza Season Now Longest in a Decade, CDC Reports Influenza activity is the highest in 10 years, and although activity is subsiding, it is still elevated, possibly because of a second wave of illness with a new predominant virus, according to the CDC.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Medically Tailored Meal Delivery Improves Outcomes, Cuts Costs Participation in a medically tailored meals program cut inpatient and skilled nursing admissions and lowered care costs for people with chronic illness and food insecurity, new data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Alert FDA Clears First Device for Treating ADHD The US Food and Drug Administration has granted marketing authorization for the Monarch external trigeminal nerve stimulation system to treat ADHD in patients between the ages of 7 and 12 years.
  FDA Approvals, April 2019
• 1-in-5 US Kids Drink No Water During a Given Day Children and young adults who drank little or no water consume almost twice as many calories from sugar-sweetened beverages as those who drank water, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• HHS Awards Funds to 4 States to Cut Opioid OD Deaths by 40% The money will fund research to test whether hyper-local integrated programs can drastically reduce overdose deaths in those areas within the next 3 years
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Moderate Intake of Red Meat Tied to Higher Colorectal Cancer Risk Consuming moderate amounts of red meat and processed meat is associated with an increased relative risk for colorectal cancer, but eating fiber from bread and cereal may reduce the risk.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Alert FDA Okays First Generic Naloxone Nasal Spray for Opioid Overdose The FDA has granted final approval for the first generic naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for reversing or stopping the effects from an opioid overdose.
  FDA Approvals, April 2019
• TMS Boosts Long-term Memory in Older Adults Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) improves function of the hippocampal-cortical brain networks and improves long-term memory in older adults.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Washington University Med School Latest to Offer Free Tuition The St. Louis school becomes the seventh in the nation to give full or partial tuition relief to medical students.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019
• Prolonged Lung Cancer Screening Boosts Mortality Benefit New data show that CT screening of individuals beyond 5 years can significantly increase survival benefits.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2019