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• Lack of clinical academics threatens NHS research and teaching, say peers

  26-01-2023 06:00 via ft.com
  Shortage of doctors with university posts is putting health service on ‘dangerous precipice’
  
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• 'The Evil Hand Is Mother Nature': What We Heard This Week

  05-02-2023 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- "The evil hand is mother nature."--Paul Offit, MD, of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, explaining why Pfizer's mRNA vaccine work is not gain-of-function research.
  "We've been doing a lot more amputations over the last...
  
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• Higher Pay for Healthcare Staff? Ease Burnout by Using Your PTO

  05-02-2023 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to this week's edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the web to help you learn what's next.Higher pay could be coming to permanent...
  
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• Ketamine Clinics Are Jumping Ahead of the Evidence

  05-02-2023 13:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Almost a quarter of U.S. adults suffered from a mental illness in 2021, yet less than half of them received treatment. This has incredible impacts on individuals, families, the economy, and public health, and it is of utmost...
  
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• Cradle to grave: is Britain’s NHS broken?

  05-02-2023 06:00 via ft.com
  The UK’s national health system is showing signs of frailty as it nears its 75th birthday
  
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• Why Did CDC Sound the Alarm Over Eye Drops?

  04-02-2023 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz
  
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• Ethics Consult: Keep Patient Alive Due to Spiritual Beliefs? MD/JD Weighs In

  04-02-2023 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to Ethics Consult--an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case, and then we provide an expert's commentary.
  Last...
  
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• U.S. Exercise Levels; Lifestyle and Memory Decline; Cooling Kidney Donors

  04-02-2023 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...
  
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• Here's How to End the U.S. Health Disadvantage

  04-02-2023 13:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Two recently released reports on the status of U.S. health spending and healthcare quality and equity describe an all-too-familiar picture: U.S. healthcare spending has continued to increase; health disparities have persisted...
  
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• Hospitals at a Breaking Point: Lack of Staff and Resources Leave EDs in Chaos

  04-02-2023 11:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- I recently worked an evening shift in the emergency department the day before New Year's Eve. Patients arrived in waves, by car, and by ambulance. They seemed to check into the triage area every few minutes. When I left at midnight...
  
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• Medicare Advantage Plans Fielded 35 Million Prior Auth Requests in 2021

  03-02-2023 18:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Over 35 million prior authorization requests were submitted to Medicare Advantage insurers in 2021, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
  Two million of these requests, or 6%, were fully or partly...
  
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• California's Medical Misinformation Law Facing Legal Challenges

  03-02-2023 18:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Late last month, a federal judge in California granted a preliminary injunction in a pair of related lawsuits filed in opposition to the state's new medical misinformation law, which took effect January 1.
  The move temporarily...
  
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• First heart patients diagnosed using new fibre optic technology

  03-02-2023 17:48 via ft.com
  Researchers say device developed in London could help thousands suffering from vascular disease
  
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• Adding Docetaxel to RT Improves Survival in Cisplatin-Ineligible Head & Neck Cancer

  03-02-2023 17:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Adding docetaxel to radiation therapy (RT) improved survival outcomes in cisplatin-ineligible patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, a phase III randomized trial showed.
  At a median follow-up of...
  
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• Hormone Infusion Shows Promise for Low Sexual Desire

  03-02-2023 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- An infusion of the hormone kisspeptin helped improve low sexual desire in both men and women, two small trials found.
  In the 37-participant study of heterosexual men with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), IV kisspeptin...
  
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• Their Alzheimer's Disease Didn't Worsen. Why?

  03-02-2023 16:45 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Sustained vigorous exercise might have slowed disease progression in two patients with positive Alzheimer's biomarkers and mild cognitive impairment, two case reports suggested.
  At age 64, patient 1 was diagnosed with amnestic...
  
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• Peer-Reviewed Journal Publishes Paper Written Almost Entirely by ChatGPT

  03-02-2023 16:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Text-generating artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as ChatGPT, have the potential to "revolutionize the field of medical writing" by automating tasks and increasing efficiency throughout the writing process--at least...
  
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• BCG Vaccine Flops for Preventing COVID, Other Respiratory Infections

  03-02-2023 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- The bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine failed to protect against COVID-19 and other respiratory tract infections (RTIs) among older adults with comorbidities, according to a randomized trial from The Netherlands.
  In...
  
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• Heart Failure Risk Lingers Long After Chemotherapy, Regardless of Dose

  03-02-2023 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Anthracycline users with breast cancer or lymphoma had an upfront risk of congestive heart failure (CHF) that persisted during long-term follow-up in a population-based case-control study.
  The cumulative incidence of new-onset...
  
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• 2-Minute Clinic: Who Was Nicknamed 'The Lady With the Lamp?'

  03-02-2023 14:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Think fast! Use clues to get the answer and beat the clock
  
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• How Patent Thickets Keep Cheaper Drugs Off the Market

  03-02-2023 14:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- In this video, S. Sean Tu, PhD, JD, professor of law at West Virginia University in Morgantown, discusses the methods that pharmaceutical companies use to monopolize the prescription drug market. Tu's recent New England Journal...
  
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• Cambridge Cognition and Aardex collaborate to boost decentralised clinical trials

  03-02-2023 13:47 via pharmatimes.com
  
  Partnership involves the study of real-time patient data and identification of adherence issues
  
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• Green light for AbbVie’s Crohn’s disease therapy Rinvoq

  03-02-2023 13:44 via pharmatimes.com
  
  MHRA approval for Rinvoq which treats adults with moderate to severely active Crohn's Disease
  
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• Faking a Cancer Dx? Fallopian Tube Removal; Trodelvy's New Breast Cancer Indication

  03-02-2023 13:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- A 19-year-old Iowa woman has been arrested after being accused of faking diagnoses of leukemia and pancreatic cancer in order to collect more than $37,000 in online donations. (CBS News)
  The Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance...
  
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• Group A Strep's Most Sinister Sequelae

  03-02-2023 12:03 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) --Credit: NIAID
  Arriving in Montana in the 1890s, his Norwegian-American forebears claimed rural homesteads and started to farm. By the mid-20th century, two of his grandparents had died of rheumatic heart disease, which-...
  
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• Long COVID's 7 Symptoms; Most of U.S. Backs Tobacco Ban; Ugly People and Face Masks

  03-02-2023 10:44 via medpagetoday.com
  
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  Data on more than 50,000 people suggest that seven symptoms are unique to long COVID: heart palpitations, hair loss, fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath, joint pain, and obesity...
  
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• Republican Lawmakers Worry X-Waiver Elimination Could Stir Buprenorphine Diversion

  02-02-2023 20:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- Could dropping the "X-waiver" have unintended consequences? That's what some House members suggested during a hearing on ways to address the fentanyl crisis, along with other healthcare issues.
  "Sometimes ... medications are...
  
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• TikToks Only a Doctor Can Explain

  02-02-2023 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) --
  In this video, Mikhail Varshavski, DO--who goes by "Dr. Mike" on social media--reacts to medical-related TikTok videos.
  Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors are possible):
  Varshavski...
  
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• Winners & Losers of the Mass Exodus From U.S. News' Med School Rankings

  02-02-2023 19:30 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- It wasn't long ago that the U.S. News & World Report rankings were the agreed-upon arbiter of prestige and quality in medical schools. Sure, you might quibble with their results or their methodology, but at the end of the...
  
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• What Tyre Nichols' Death Reminds Us About Black Suffering

  02-02-2023 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  
  (MedPage Today) -- On January 10, Tyre Nichols died from police brutality. In bodycam footage from January 7, when Nichols was stopped by the police, Nichols is seen on the ground, crying for his mother while being beaten and assaulted with pepper...
  
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