The Perils of Heat Waves for Vulnerable Older Adults
TOPLINE:Heat waves are associated with an increase in heat-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths among dually eligible individuals older ...
NHS urges vulnerable to get Covid and Flu vaccines
People in clinically at-risk groups are being urged to get their free Covid-19 and flu vaccinations this winter.NHS Cambridgeshire and ...
Executive resigns after damning report
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health BoardSue Hill will officially resign as Betsi Cadwaladr's executive director of finance in DecemberA health board ...
Diabetes, Kidney Disease May Raise Cardiovascular Risk Years Sooner
Share on PinterestNew research indicates that people with CKM syndrome may have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease up ...
AMA Delegates Tackle Protections for LGBTQIA+ Athletes
Participation of LGBTQIA+ athletes in sports earned a mixed response during the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates interim ...
‘We See Death as a Failure’: What We Heard This Week
"I think in medicine, just like in society, we see death as a failure -- and we do everything we ...
AMA Delegates Dive Into Water Bead Injuries; Patients’ ‘Scanxiety’ Over Test Results
Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) Saturday attacked dozens of worsening obstacles they blamed for ...
Higher Risk of Kidney Cancer Recurrence After Ablative Therapy
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Minimally invasive ablative therapy for early kidney cancer had an increased risk of local and metastatic recurrence, ...
Should I Get a Handheld Ultrasound?
Guttman is an associate professor of emergency medicine. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is changing the way clinicians diagnose and manage patients ...
Paying Docs for Prior Authorizations Among the Hot Topics at the AMA Meeting
Paying physicians and their staff for their time spent on dealing with prior authorization requests and denials was a lively ...
Canada Detects Its First Presumptive Human H5 Bird Flu Case
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada has detected its first presumptive case of H5 bird flu in a person, a teenager in the ...
CAR T-Cell Therapy for Kidney Cancer Builds on Efficacy Record
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A CD70-targeted CAR T-cell therapy for advanced kidney cancer continued to show durable activity in treatment-refractory patients, ...
What Cold Medicine Ingredient May Soon Be Pulled From Shelves?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage ...
Who Needs a Defibrillator After MI? FDA Recs on Inferior Vena Cava Filters
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine ...
What the Astronomical Rise in Incarceration Means for Women’s Health
Shuford is a medical student. Spencer is an assistant professor of medicine. As a physician and medical student, we have ...
Fixing Medicare Cuts, Reforming Prior Auth Among AMA’s Top Priorities, Says AMA Prez
Declining Medicare reimbursement and continuing prior authorization hassles for physicians were among the familiar themes sounded by American Medical Association ...
Does the AMA Need to Right-Size Its House of Delegates?
Is the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates too large for its own good? That's one of the questions ...
New CAR T-Cell Therapy Approved for Leukemia
The FDA approved obecabtagene autoleucel (obe-cel; Aucatzyl) for treating relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in adults, ...
FDA Approves Obe-cel for ALL
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved obecabtagene autoleucel, or obe-cel (AUTO1, Autolus Therapeutics) for the treatment of ...
MedPAC Tackles Accuracy of Medicare Advantage Network Directories
Inaccuracies in Medicare Advantage (MA) directories listing in-network providers -- often criticized as being too "narrow" -- and flaws in ...
