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Asymptomatic Infections Drive Many Epidemics To stem epidemics, we need to better identify asymptomatic carriers.
News, September 01, 2022
Will Teaching Health Centers Reduce the PCP Shortage? Teaching health centers in underserved areas can reduce the dearth of primary care physicians, but a lack of permanent funding poses risks to continuity.
News, September 01, 2022
Are Mass Shootings Contagious? Research shows that mass shootings appear to spread in ways that mimic infectious diseases ― and that addressing them that way can help reduce the killings.
News, August 30, 2022
How Do You Live With COVID? One Doctor's Personal Experience After having COVID in early 2020, Anne Peters, MD, has battled lasting health issues, including brain fog and cardiac problems, as well as personal loss. She shares her experience of the pandemic.
News, August 29, 2022
In Denial: When Patients Don't Want to Believe They Have Cancer Although not common, some oncologists say they are increasingly experiencing patient denial following a cancer diagnosis. Experts offer advice on how to handle these challenging situations.
News, August 25, 2022
After Cancer, Abortion Experience Highlights Post-Roe Reality Pregnant women in the United States face a host of health risks, including cancer, that can put their lives and the well-being of their fetus in jeopardy in a post-Roe America.
News, August 22, 2022
Patients With Cancer Get Valuable Second Opinion for Free A group of volunteer oncologists, pathologists, and other specialists, some of whom are retired, are offering a service where they give an expert second opinion to patients with cancer -- at no charge.
News, August 22, 2022
How to Spot Older Patients With Hidden Mental Health Issues Doctors can use questionnaires for older patients to detect underlying mental health issues that are mistaken for treatment adherence problems.
News, August 19, 2022
'Flat Denial' Can Leave Breast Cancer Patients With Lasting Scars Of women who chose to undergo an aesthetic flat closure following a mastectomy, more than 1 in 5 may experience flat denial, new research suggests.
News, August 18, 2022
Treating the Growing Population of Centenarians Less can be more in caring for the post-100 set.
News, August 16, 2022
How Doctors With Addiction Heal and Return to Practice Physicians experience problems with substance abuse at the same rates as everyone else. Here's how two doctors hit rock bottom, recovered, and got back to practicing medicine full time.
News, August 12, 2022
'A Dream Come True': Resident Aims to Treat Marginalized Patients After experiencing isolation as a minority medical trainee from Chile, this primary care resident wants "to be someone who can bridge that gap" between underrepresented patients and traditional healthcare.
News, August 05, 2022
As Digital Posters Take Over, Traditionalists Push Back As more scientific meetings adopt digital posters, some attendees lament the loss of the traditional paper poster, where chance encounters and networking can occur.
News, August 01, 2022
CAR T-Cell Therapy Turns 10 and Finally Earns the Word 'Cure' Emily Whitehead is the first of many children with refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia to achieve complete remission and a "functional cure."
News, July 21, 2022
Life and Death Decisions: What Keeps Oncologists Up at Night Oncologists share their innermost thoughts about the highs and lows of practicing medicine.
News, July 19, 2022
EULAR 2022 Methotrexate's Impact on COVID Vaccination: New Insights Made New studies assess patients with various immune-mediated inflammatory diseases to determine the risks and benefits of pausing methotrexate after the COVID-19 vaccine.
News, July 18, 2022
Data Exchange Among Docs Widespread; Challenges Remain: Report The bright spot is the increase in physicians electronically querying records from outside providers; other domains of interoperability are flat.
News, July 18, 2022
Military Program Aims to Build a Pharmacy in (Not on) the Body The $61 million ADAPTER initiative starts with the military, but technological spin-offs could one day help treat patients with chronic diseases.
News, July 15, 2022
Violent Patient Throws Scalding Oil on MD; Other Patient Dangers It is rare that patients murder their doctors, but when it happens, the news tears through the whole medical community.
News, July 15, 2022
Patients Waiting Months for 'Last Chance' CAR T-Cell Therapy Supply shortages and limited manufacturing capacity are leaving myeloma patients waiting months for CAR T-cell therapy, which offers a "last chance" after all other therapies have failed.
News, July 14, 2022

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