Business of Medicine
Hitting a Nerve
Why is a healthy diet so hard to maintain?
The question really isn’t “what’s the best diet?” That’s been answered. The real question is “how do I stick with it?”
Commentary
Five thoughts on the Damar Hamlin collapse
The cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills footballer Damar Hamlin has led to speculation about commotio cordis and more, but this electrophysiologist...
Feature
ED doctors call private equity staffing practices illegal and seek to ban them
Companies have successfully sidestepped bans on owning medical practices by buying or establishing local staffing groups that are nominally owned...
Livin' on the MDedge
Medical practice gave 8,000 patients cancer for Christmas
Plus: Genes like time-restricted eating and meditations on the U.S. national stress.
Feature
Best diets in 2023: Mediterranean diet wins again
U.S. News & World Report’s latest annual rankings of the best diet plans has been released.
FDA/CDC
FDA considers regulating CBD products
The products can have drug-like effects on the body and contain CBD (cannabidiol) and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol).
From the Journals
Nearly 1,400% rise in young children ingesting cannabis edibles
In 2021, 3,054 such cases were reported versus 207 in 2017.
Feature
Study of beliefs about what causes cancer sparks debate
The authors set out to evaluate “the patterns of beliefs about cancer among people who believed in conspiracies, rejected the COVID-19 vaccine, or...
Opinion
Time for a rest
I asked some docs when they thought this feeling of exhaustion first began. We agreed that the pandemic, doubledemic, tripledemic, backlog have...
From the Journals
Problematic alcohol use on the rise among physicians?
Investigators found the prevalence of self-reported problematic alcohol use varied widely, but could affect up to one-third of physicians.
News from the FDA/CDC
Alzheimer’s Association to CMS: Ditch restraints on amyloid drugs
The CMS coverage restrictions for anti-amyloid drugs were finalized in April on the...