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• Alert EMA Backs Oral Drug for Primary Biliary Cholangitis Iqirvo can delay liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in patients with primary biliary cholangitis, the European Medicines Agency decided.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Slow-Release Buprenorphine Safe in Mild OUD Withdrawal Extended-release buprenorphine medication was deemed safe for patients with mild opioid withdrawal.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• A Cash Giveaway to Improve Health   We can't just give cash to low-income folks instead of food to improve their health, can we? That's just what these researchers did.
  Medscape, July 22, 2024
• Laboratory-Developed Meat: Ethicist Says It's Worth Pursuing   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations for laboratory-developed meat.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 22, 2024
• Pawscription Pads: Docs and Their Dogs 2024 Discover the perfect prescription for doctors' ruff days: the wet kisses and warm hearts of their dogs.
  Medscape News Slideshows, July 22, 2024
• Does This 'Stem Cell' Therapy Contain Any Actual Stem Cells?   Dr F. Perry Wilson explains why — at the moment — we have reason to be skeptical about stem cell therapies marketed for commonplace aches and pains.
  Medscape, July 16, 2024
• ED Visits and Mortality in Patients With Cirrhosis In patients with cirrhosis, frequent emergency department visits were linked to early death and more hospitalizations.
  Medscape Medical News, July 15, 2024
• Medscape Doctors Evaluate Medicare and Medicaid Report 2024 Physicians reveal their Medicare and Medicaid patient counts, how crucial those programs are to business success, and how they feel about reimbursement rates.
  Medscape News Slideshows, July 12, 2024
• New Mid-Year Vaccine Recommendations From ACIP Important changes to vaccination recommendations for COVID, flu, RSV, and pneumococcal disease -- and what's behind the changes -- are summarized here.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 11, 2024
• Olympic Mindset Tips Tailor-Made for Stressed-Out Physicians No medals for second place in medicine. Use these mindset techniques from Olympic sports psychologists so you can excel under high stress like a world-class athlete.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Be Alert for Conjunctivitis: New Human Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu   Clinicians should be aware of the symptoms of bird flu seen in the first few human cases.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 09, 2024
• Infographic: PAs Feel Content With Jobs Despite Challenges A Medscape survey found that physician assistants (PAs) generally expressed high satisfaction with their careers despite various challenges.
  Medscape, July 09, 2024
• Transplants Using Animal Organs: Research, Not Lifesaving   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses transplantation using organs from animals, and the need to be clear to patients that these early-stage procedures are research rather than lifesaving efforts.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 08, 2024
• How Facial Temperature Reveals Age and Disease Find out why Dr F. Perry Wilson says that the medical tricorder perhaps wasn't as fanciful as it seemed when it was used by Dr Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek."
  Medscape, July 02, 2024
• Phone-Based Support Improves Well-being After HSCT The intervention was feasible and showed promise for improving psychological well-being among allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant survivors.
  Medscape Medical News, June 28, 2024
• Medscape Physician Assistant Career Satisfaction Report 2024 Despite overall career satisfaction among physician assistants, a minority express concerns about their relationship with doctors, patients, and administrators.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, June 28, 2024
• Savara's Rare Lung Disease Therapy Succeeds in Late-stage Study Savara said on Wednesday its experimental therapy met the main goal of a late-stage trial by improving a measure of lung function in patients with a rare disease that causes...
  Reuters Health Information, June 26, 2024
• Online Diagnosis of STIs? Ethicist Says We Are Nowhere Close Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the use of websites for diagnosing sexually transmitted diseases.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 24, 2024
• Transplant Ethics: Quality of Life & Functional Restoration   Art Caplan discusses the ethics of transplanting for quality of life, not for functional restoration.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 17, 2024
• Heart Failure in Women: Key Differences and Clinical Tips   Eileen Hsich, MD, discusses the underlying causes of heart failure and treatment responses to therapy in women.
  American College of Cardiology & Medscape , June 14, 2024