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Docs Mobilize Help For Indian Colleagues Affected by COVID Surge Clinicians and healthcare workers from across the world are banding together to man hotlines, disseminate public health information, crowdfund equipment, and train young doctors.
News, May 05, 2021
'Malicious Peer Review' Destroyed Doc's Career, He Says A longtime cardiothoracic surgeon is suing a Texas hospital after he says a sham peer review forced him out of practice.
News, May 05, 2021
Who Can Call Themselves 'Doctor?' The Debate Heats Up A new Medscape poll shows that most physicians -- but not nonphysician clinicians -- think using the title 'doctor' is appropriate but primarily in certain settings.
News, May 05, 2021
Nurses: How Far We Have Come In honor of National Nurses' Week, Medscape interviewed four trailblazing nurses who tell about the challenges and satisfactions in the profession.
News, May 03, 2021
The Cloudy Role of Cannabis as a Neuropsychiatric Treatment Medical cannabis researchers say there is real promise for several conditions, but continued obstacles are hindering the drive for high-quality evidence.
News, April 29, 2021
Doctors Lose Jobs After Speaking Out About Unsafe Conditions A number of physicians have taken to the media to publicize the fact that conditions in their facility may be unsafe. Many then suffered repercussions. Is this a denial of freedom of speech?
News, April 28, 2021
Biggest Resident 'Orphaning Event': Ex-Hahnemann Docs Reflect The closure of Philadelphia's Hahnemann University Hospital in 2019 sent trainees and attendings scrambling. Where are they now, and what lessons can their experiences offer?
News, April 27, 2021
Feds Investigating Telehealth Charges in Upsurge With telehealth restrictions eased during the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care has become more common, but it can also be misused, and one pattern is already under investigation.
News, April 26, 2021
Transgender Teens: Is the Tide Starting to Turn? Who is 'Keira Bell'? This brave young woman took on the medical establishment in the UK over her treatment for gender dysphoria and won. The ruling could have global ramifications.
News, April 26, 2021
Vaccinating Homebound Patients Is an Uphill Battle In the US, about 2 to 4 million patients are homebound, according to a webinar from the Trust for America's Health, held in March. Many have not been vaccinated because of logistical challenges.
News, April 23, 2021
GENUINE Improvements: Ublituximab Plus Ibrutinib for CLL Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) expert Jennifer R. Brown, MD, discusses the recently published GENUINE trial and its implications for treating high-risk patients.
News, April 20, 2021
COVID Vaccine Makers Have More Than Boosters in the Works Vaccine developers are already coming up with new options to protect against COVID-19 no matter what happens next with the pandemic.
News, April 20, 2021
Transgender Resident Speaks Up on Coming Out in Medicine The demands of residency are challenging enough without having to contend with coming out. With the support of her colleagues, Evelyn Carroll is now living life as her authentic self.
News, April 19, 2021
Next-Generation COVID Vaccines Have Many Different Targets As the world awaits evidence on the durability of the immune response of COVID vaccines, developers are already coming up with new approaches and delivery routes to offer more roads to protection.
News, April 19, 2021
Medscape Physician Compensation Report: What COVID Did to MD Income COVID caused an immediate decline in most physicians' income in 2020, but surprisingly, many rebounded and finished the year in better shape than expected. Others are still struggling.
News, April 19, 2021
A 'Mess' of a Diagnosis: Is it Type 2 MI or a Nonischemic Imposter? Often tough to tell apart and with surprisingly poor prognoses, type 2 MI and nonischemic myocardial injury lack trials to guide therapy. Whether they require routine angiography is now being explored.
News, April 16, 2021
Black Med Students' Photos at Plantation Spark New Group The 15 White Coats started with a photo taken at the slave quarters of a planation. Over the past year, the organization has become a driver for challenging systemic racism in medicine.
News, April 15, 2021
Milk Is Overtaking Nuts as Top Food Allergy Threat Cow's milk is in so many foods that it can be difficult to avoid yet it is the most common food allergy in young children.
News, April 15, 2021
Seaweed and Other Marine-Derived Products in Skin Care Marine ingredients have been steadily flowing into the market for skin care, and research has proliferated.
News, April 15, 2021
Cadaver Donations Fall During COVID: Will Future MDs Suffer? Even as medical schools have moved to more virtual and model-based learning, human bodies are still considered crucial to learning.
News, April 14, 2021

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