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Zero tolerance for patient bias: Too harsh? Clinicians respond
Should a patient’s request for a health care practitioner of a different race or sex always be accommodated? A recent blog called for a zero...
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Meningococcal vaccine shows benefit in STI prevention
“The duration of protective efficacy – a big thing in vaccines – is unknown. Still, this is really significant.”
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Physician group staffing down, expenses up, new reports show
New reports show that higher wages elsewhere induce ancillary staff to leave, groups hire more RNs to fill the gap, and advanced practice...
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‘Quick, affordable’ test helps predict CGRP response for migraine
Pretreatment nonictal cephalic allodynia identified galcanezumab responders with nearly 80% accuracy.
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Doctors and their families tend to ignore medical guidelines
Doctors’ medical knowledge may influence them and their families to often ignore medical advice, study finds.
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Docs with one paid malpractice claim are four times more likely to have another
A new study’s findings suggest that a single malpractice claim may not be a random stroke of bad luck.
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Oncologist stars in film and shares philosophy on death
When a New York oncologist approached the French actress and film director Emmanuelle Bercot in Manhattan, he was thinking big.
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COVID vs. flu: Which is deadlier?
People who were hospitalized with Omicron COVID-19 infections were 54% more likely to die, compared with people who were hospitalized with the flu...
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Zika virus still calls for preparedness and vaccine development
“There’s no antiviral that you can take for Zika. Until we have a vaccine, the key to controlling/preventing Zika is controlling the mosquitoes...
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Pfizer COVID vaccine effective in young children, study shows
A three-dose series of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in children aged 6 months to 4 years.
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Are ‘Momi Pods’ the future of postnatal care?
The program allows moms to book regular checkups for their baby, and then a follow-up appointment immediately after for themselves.