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(MedPage Today) -- Harvard University professor Robert Coles, MD, the psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who championed the cause of children grappling with poverty and segregation, died at age 97. (AP) High-intensity transcranial...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine must always be overseen by physicians, according to a policy adopted by the American Medical Association (AMA) on Tuesday. At its annual meeting on Tuesday, AMA's House of Delegates passed...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- I did not see the police officers muscle the five diabetes experts out of the convention center in New Orleans at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting because I was inside the meeting room where the opening session...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Concerned that unsupervised nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) provide patient care that is not as good or safe as that provided by physicians, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates voted...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The court officials overseeing the NFL's $1 billion settlement fund for concussion-related injuries have barred five law firms from handling any more claims from former players, after finding that they fraudulently steered clients...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Among people with diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), genetic risk has decreased over time, a cohort study from Denmark suggested. Among individuals with incident diagnoses...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, the chair of the President's Cancer Panel, is a co-author on a new paper in Anticancer Research promoting ivermectin and mebendazole as a cancer treatment. The paper is backed by anti-vaccine organizations...
Read full article →AHIP argued the survey, which was commissioned by a pro-hospital advocacy group, is a blatant attempt by hospitals to deflect the blame for ever-higher spending.
Read full article →It’s another sign of lawmakers’ concern about the pilot, which has been lambasted for delaying care to seniors.
Read full article →Dr. Willie Underwood III said he would focus on uniting physicians across specialties and advancing equity in medicine as president.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2033, unchanged from last year's estimate, while Social Security's retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, according...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Authorities in Congo said that confirmed Ebola cases now total 598, including 115 deaths. (Reuters via MSN) Police shot and killed a protester in Kenya as hundreds...
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