Dental and Oral Health Perspective

• COVID Boosters Effective, but Not for Long   Dr F. Perry Wilson explains a unique study design that helps answer questions about the effectiveness of COVID booster vaccines.
  Medscape, May 30, 2023
• Ketamine, Pain, and Depression: A Special Connection   Ketamine may be a potent analgesic, but its effects on chronic pain may have more to do with its antidepressant effects, according to a recent study. F. Perry Wilson comments.
  Medscape, May 24, 2023
• Prior-Authorization Woes? These Tools May Change the Game   Alok S. Patel, MD, discusses prior authorizations and the potential use of artificial intelligence.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, May 22, 2023
• Is Parkinson's a Military Base's Toxic Legacy?   Exposure to groundwater contaminated with TCE could explain higher rates of Parkinson's disease in those who spent time at Camp Lejeune.
  Medscape, May 16, 2023
• Let's Value Health Instead of Wealth Dr Lundberg invites readers to work with him on ways to improve health and thus build a happier, wiser society.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 15, 2023
• Rounding in Country Music Helped This Doctor Find Balance A busy medical practice causes many to drop their hobbies, but this cardiologist kept playing music -- and he and his patients were all the better for it.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 10, 2023
• The 30th-Birthday Gift That Could Save a Life   Could a ticking time bomb be lurking in your DNA?
  Medscape, May 09, 2023
• Surprising Brain Activity Moments Before Death   F. Perry Wilson comments on a fascinating study that shines a light on the electrochemistry of the dying brain.
  Medscape, May 02, 2023
• There's No Place Like Home for Hospital Care   Dr Helen Ouyang on why she writes so much about the hospital-at-home movement: It's the future, one way or another.
  Medscape, May 01, 2023
• Do Pets Really Cure Loneliness?   The truth about cats and dogs is that they really don't seem to help us overcome stress and loneliness as much as we might think, according to a new study.
  Medscape, April 26, 2023
• Infographic: Is Your Pay Rising as Fast as Your Peers'?   Physicians report on what happened with their total compensation in 2022, which specialties pay the best, and whether the gender salary gap is closing in medicine.
  Medscape, April 20, 2023
• Healthcare in America: Let That Tapeworm Grow Our sickness care system is one helluva jobs program.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, April 11, 2023
• Prior Authorizations: Time to Rebel? A practicing psychiatrist says it's time for healthcare professionals to organize a collective rebellion against prior authorizations, which at best delay patient care and at worst hasten death.
  Medscape Psychiatry, April 06, 2023
• Change Makers: Dr Anne Klibanski on Transforming Academic Medicine WebMD Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, MPH, speaks with Anne Klibanski, MD, on the future of academic medicine.
  Medscape, March 28, 2023
• Celebrity Death Finally Solved -- With Locks of Hair   New techniques and old locks of hair allow researchers to get a little closer to solving an enduring medical mystery: What killed Ludwig van Beethoven?
  Medscape, March 22, 2023
• 'They All Laughed When I Spoke of Greedy Doctors' Dr George Lundberg comments on unchecked greed and salve lucrum (the glorification of profit) in health and medicine.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, March 20, 2023
• Rogue Faculty and Academic Freedom in the Age of Misinformation   Should our nation's academic institutions rein in faculty who amplify conspiracy theories and spread potentially harmful falsehoods?
  Medscape, March 15, 2023
• Doctors' Burden: Medscape Physician Suicide Report 2023 For some physicians, the stress of practicing medicine has become so unbearable that they contemplate or attempt suicide. Others have found ways to support their mental health.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, March 03, 2023
• Sweet on Erythritol? Sugar Substitute Linked to Heart Disease   A common sweetener has been implicated in heart attack and stroke, but is that worse than the health effects of sugar?
  Medscape, February 28, 2023
• How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again   ChatGPT and large language models offer physicians the chance to do what they went to medical school for: connect with patients and help them regain their health.
  Medscape, February 21, 2023