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• AIDS 2024 Remembering HIV Leaders Shot Down in Plane HIV researchers and activists were killed when a missile hit their passenger airplane over Ukraine 10 years ago in the deadliest shoot-down incident to this day.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 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
• Push, Fail, Push Harder: Olympic Athletes Who Became MDs These Olympian athletes chose medicine as their next challenge. The keys to their success, they said, are the same skills that brought them to the pinnacle of sports.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• Transgender Care: What Barriers Do Canadian Patients Face? Recent research indicates that improving education among clinicians would contribute to a better care experience among transgender patients.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2024
• More Illnesses Linked to Counterfeit Botulinum Toxin Each of the seven cases were linked to treatments administered in a non-medical setting.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 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
• Plastic Surgeon Fined $5 M for Restricting Negative Reviews A Seattle plastic surgeon is required to pay $1.5 million to patients and $3.5 million to the state of Washington for restricting patients from posting negative reviews.
  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
• Dermatoporosis: Holistic, Creative Management Needed Key features of dermatoporosis include atrophic skin, solar purpura, white pseudoscars, easily acquired skin lacerations and tears, bruises, and delayed healing.
  Medscape Medical News, 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
• Climate May Influence Botulinum Toxin A Dosage Researchers enrolled 523 women who received glabellar botulinum toxin treatment at two centers between 2012 and 2019.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2024
• Protecting Dermatologists From Malpractice Claims Providing proper informed consent and adequate staff training of nonphysician providers are among the recommendations from authors of studies on recent trends in dermatology lawsuits.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2024
• No HIV Infections After Twice-a-Year PrEP Patients at a high risk for HIV infection who received preexposure prophylactic injections with lenacapavir had 100% efficacy in a phase 3 clinical trial.
  Medscape Medical News, July 05, 2024
• Semaglutide Linked to Cause of Vision Loss Patients taking semaglutide appear to have an increased risk for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, July 03, 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
• 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
• Energy-Based Litigation Trends Highlighted in Study Plastic surgeons were the most litigated healthcare professionals.
  Medscape Medical News, June 25, 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