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Best Vacations for Doctors Ready to Travel: Where To Go? People now want to travel, but they also want to stay safe. Medscape offers tips for safe travel and recommends some top spots.
News, July 23, 2021
Tornado Docs: Med School Built in Ruins Has First Graduates Ten years ago, a deadly tornado in Joplin, Missouri, destroyed a hospital. The med school that was built on that site just graduated its first class. Some graduates will stay nearby and help to keep rebuilding.
News, July 23, 2021
Psychiatric Genomics Has a Diversity Problem Genetic investigations are aiming for a broader understanding of what causes psychiatric disease than was possible with the Euro-centric efforts of the past.
News, July 20, 2021
ASCO 2021 Sharp Turn in Career Path: Leaving Academic Medicine Behind Dr David Schenkein had aspired to, and achieved, a career in academic medicine and envisaged staying "until they take me out in a box." So why did this physician move to industry?
News, July 20, 2021
Do Trans Women Athletes Have Advantages? The Olympics will feature the first openly trans athlete as the debate over trans-women's and -girls' participation in female sports heats up. What rules are in place and what does the science so far say?
News, July 14, 2021
'I Did Nothing Wrong:' MDs Used Own Sperm for Fertility Patients Several physicians secretly used their own sperm for their fertility patients. No one knew until years later, when the unaware offspring sent DNA samples to tracing sites. Lawsuits ensued.
News, July 14, 2021
Talking About Guns: Website Helps Docs Follow Through on Pledge A team of clinicians and analysts at UC Davis developed the BulletPoints resource to guide clinicians in how to have the conversations and what they can do if what they hear requires action.
News, July 13, 2021
More Than Just a Hill of Beans: The Health Effects of Coffee As the evidence on coffee consumption has increased in quality, so too has its positive associations in cancer, CVD, diabetes, depression, and other conditions.
News, July 12, 2021
She Wanted to Be a Doctor. Her Parents Stood in the Way Kathryn Hitchcock's parents did not want her to be a doctor for fear of her growing apart from her roots in a different social and economic class.
News, July 09, 2021
Are Oncologists Liable for Pandemic-Related Treatment Delays? For the most part, concerns about malpractice liability because of delayed cancer diagnoses are unfounded, according to medical-legal experts.
News, July 08, 2021
What an Editor Learned After a Paper Was Deemed Insensitive Dr Samir S. Shah provides a deeper insight into the decision to retract and reissue an article -- and the lessons learned about the use of language in medical journals going forward.
News, July 07, 2021
Sublingual Immunotherapy: Where Does It Stand? Published data and real-world experience are growing for this food allergy treatment.
News, July 07, 2021
Direct-Care Allergy Clinic Specializes in SLIT An allergy practice in North Carolina offers a hard-to-find treatment that appears to be versatile and safe.
News, July 07, 2021
SLIT Is Safer for Food Allergy. Why Don't More Doctors Offer It? Recent data on sublingual drops look promising, but the commercial path to approval is unclear.
News, July 07, 2021
Oncology Social Workers 'Just as Important' as Chemo Social workers are trained to help patients and their families cope with the physical, emotional, and social disruptions of cancer in ways that doctors cannot.
News, July 06, 2021
Professional vs Facility Billing: What Hospitalists Must Know Hospitalists don't often realize how much impact they have on their hospital's revenue cycle and quality.
News, June 30, 2021
We Made a Map; It's Probably Wrong Using federal data, Medscape and WebMD made a map of the percentage of healthcare workers at hospitals around the US who have not yet been vaccinated against COVID. Seems simple enough. It isn't.
News, June 28, 2021
Unmatched Doctors: How Big Is the Problem, and What Can Be Done? Determining the exact scope of the "unmatched doctor crisis" is as complicated as its causes. Experts say the problems are very real and that solutions are their own can of worms.
News, June 24, 2021
Could the Surgisphere Retractions Debacle Happen Again? One year after two major journals retracted COVID-19 studies involving a little known private database company, Medscape asked researchers and journal editors if the Surgisphere debacle could happen again.
News, June 24, 2021
How Oncology Practices Weathered the Pandemic Storm Independent cancer practices were already struggling financially even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Some predicted this would be the last straw ― but what actually happened?
News, June 23, 2021

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