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• Drug Combinations Improve Survival in Melanoma Dr Jeffrey Weber discusses oral melanoma abstracts presented at ASCO 2024.
  Medscape Oncology, July 25, 2024
• Know Your Options: Thyroidectomy for Graves Disease   Drs Kaniksha Desai, Tracy S. Tylee, and Quan-Yang Duh discuss thyroidectomy for the treatment of Graves disease.
  American Thyroid Association, July 24, 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
• ADA 2024 GLP-1 Guidance to Reduce Regurgitation and Aspiration Risk   Drs Akshay Jain and Girish Joshi discuss clinical considerations to keep in mind when someone on GLP-1 therapy is undergoing elective procedures.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, July 18, 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
• 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
• S2 Episode 4: The Evolution of Nonoperative Rectal Cancer Management   Join Drs Benjamin Schlechter and Joshua Smith as they discuss the evolution of nonoperative rectal cancer management and organ preservation, highlighting groundbreaking trials like OPRA and JANUS.
  Medscape, July 02, 2024
• ASCO 2024 ASCO 2024: 'The Oncologist Without the Pathologist Is Blind'   Dr Mark Lewis discusses new data in GI cancers at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting.
  Medscape Oncology, July 01, 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
• Episode 2: Future Therapies for GEJ and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma   Drs Samuel Klempner and Zev Wainberg discuss standard-of-care, second-line, and future therapies for GE junction, esophageal, and gastric cancers.
  Medscape, June 26, 2024
• Episode 1: Understanding, Detecting, and Treating GEJ Adenocarcinoma   Drs Samuel Klempner and Yelena Janjigian provide clinical pearls for understanding, detecting, and treating GEJ adenocarcinoma.
  Medscape, June 26, 2024
• Key Takeaways in Early Breast Cancer From ASCO 2024   Key data on chemotherapy benefit in premenopausal women and improving survival in triple-negative breast cancer are among takeaways in early breast cancer from ASCO 2024 chosen by Dr Harold Burstein.
  Medscape, June 24, 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
• Ghrelin Paradox: Unlocking New Avenues in Obesity Management Ghrelin, the "hunger hormone," plays a key role in driving appetite and weight regain. Could tackling ghrelin be the key to tackling obesity?
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 21, 2024
• Aspirin Use Enhances Immunosurveillance in Colorectal Cancer Prof David Kerr discusses recent study results related to the impact of aspirin on the tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, June 21, 2024
• Rethinking Clinical Trial Design and Cure in NSCLC Mark Kris discusses clinical trial design and the goal of cure in non–small cell lung cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, June 20, 2024