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Nonpaying Patients; Metaverse Medicine; and UK Approves Booster The top 3 things you should know to start your day.
3 Things to Know Today, August 16, 2022
Metaverse Medicine and the Doctor, Patient Avatars Ahead The metaverse is being pitched as a place where healthcare could bridge the digital and physical world in a computer-generated space where people interact. But will they take that leap?
WebMD Health News, August 15, 2022
Mindfulness 'Changes the Biology' of Pain Just 8 weeks of mindfulness training can improve response to pain, and alterations in brain signatures appear to strengthen with more practice.
Medscape Medical News, August 15, 2022
New COVID Guidelines; Retiring Early Rx; and Healing Addiction The top 3 things you should know to start your day.
3 Things to Know Today, August 15, 2022

How One Physician Managed to Retire at Age 43 An anesthesiologist lived modestly, invested, and managed to retire very early. Now he advises other physicians on how to do the same. Would his strategies work for you?
Medscape Medical News, August 2022
DNA From 3 Parents to Create an Embryo: A Slippery Slope? Professor Art Caplan discusses the UK and Australia process allowing mitochondrial transfer into an embryo, which allows for genetic material from three parents.
Medscape Business of Medicine, August 2022
Women Physicians 2020: The Issues They Care About More than 3000 women physicians described their key concerns, including career, parenting, and burnout.
Medscape Features Slideshows, July 2020
Payment Problems as Patients Lose Coverage due to COVID Patient visits are back, but many have lost insurance or have a lesser plan. Here's what physicians can do to increase their revenue in this situation.
Medscape Medical News, July 2020
Who Gets a Ventilator? Rationing Aid in COVID-19 Bioethicist Art Caplan talks about the key factors that can come into play when deciding who gets scarce resources for treating COVID-19.
Medscape Business of Medicine, April 2020

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Diagnosing Kids With Long COVID Can Be Tricky: Experts The transformation from regular teen life to someone with a chronic illness "sucked," says Spencer, who will turn 15 in August. "I felt like I was never going to get better."
WebMD Health News, August 15, 2022
Does PREDICT Accurately Estimate Breast Cancer Survival? A study coordinated by Italian researchers investigated the prognostic performance of PREDICT in patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer.
Medscape Medical News, August 15, 2022
Higher Cardiac COVID Risks in Pregnancy Require Team Care Pregnant women are at elevated risk for cardiac complications of COVID-19, including myocardial injury, arrhythmias, and heart failure, and require multidisciplinary team care, a new review concludes.
Medscape Medical News, August 15, 2022

Why Our Brains Wear Out at the End of the Day And why it's best not to try making important decisions at that time.
Medscape, August 15, 2022
Turn to PANTHER to Understand Diabetes Technology Cari Berget, RN, MPH, discusses the PANTHER program, a resource for healthcare professionals looking to find practical, usable information related to diabetes technology.
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, August 15, 2022