RFK Jr. Touts Food as Medicine. He Often Overstates the...
(MedPage Today) — In the Trump administration’s campaign to promote healthy eating, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has not stopped at his slogan urging people to “eat real food”...
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Jehovah's Witnesses Transfusion Policy Now Allows Storage, Use of One's...
(MedPage Today) — Leaders of Jehovah’s Witnesses are modifying their prohibition on receiving blood transfusions on religious grounds, now allowing members to decide whether to allow their own blood to...
'If You Wait That Long, You Will Have Waited Too...
(MedPage Today) — “If you wait that long, you will have waited too long.” — Lori Handy, MD, MSCE, of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, responding to the FDA Commissioner’s...
Online Doctor Reviews Need to Go
(MedPage Today) — I suppose I understand why online patient reviews of physicians exist. Patients have told me they provide helpful information when searching for a new physician. Physicians have...
Gene Therapy Supply Runs Out, Company Warns of Treatment Delays
(MedPage Today) — Etranacogene dezaparvovec (Hemgenix), the only commercially available gene therapy for hemophilia B, is temporarily unavailable, according to maker CSL Behring. In a letter addressed to the hemophilia...
Glaucoma Checks in Primary Care; Wastewater to Screen for Colorectal...
(MedPage Today) — TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president...
Quiz Time: Whose Son Won't Get Antibiotics Unless on 'His...
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To Limit Antibiotic Overprescribing, Take a Page From the Opioid...
(MedPage Today) — In 2012, approximately 255 million opioid prescriptions were written in the U.S. At the time, prescribers may have thought these drugs were safe and effective, but in...
It Was a Rough Match Day for Family Medicine, IMGs
(MedPage Today) — This year’s Match Day proved rough for two groups: family medicine and noncitizen international medical graduates (IMGs), according to data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP)....
HPV Self-Testing in Primary Care Boosts Cervical Cancer Screening
(MedPage Today) — Offering human papillomavirus (HPV) self-testing in primary care appears to boost cervical cancer screening rates compared with usual care, a cluster-randomized trial in New Zealand showed. A...
