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AMA Delegates Tackle Protections for LGBTQIA+ Athletes

(MedPage Today) -- Participation of LGBTQIA+ athletes in sports earned a mixed response during the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates interim meeting in Orlando, Florida on Saturda

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One Escaped Monkey of 43 Is Captured in South Carolina

The monkeys escaped after a worker at a research center left an enclosure unlocked. One monkey was captured Saturday while the rest remain at large.

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'We See Death as a Failure': What We Heard This Week

(MedPage Today) -- "I think in medicine, just like in society, we see death as a failure -- and we do everything we can to avoid failure.

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AMA Delegates Dive Into Water Bead Injuries; Patients' 'Scanxiety' Over Test Results

(MedPage Today) -- Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) Saturday attacked dozens of worsening obstacles they blamed for making safe patient care increasingly dif

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Government expected to help UK hospices hit by national insurance rise

Financial lifeline could alleviate fears end-of-life services are at risk of closure from tax hike and higher wage billsThe government is likely to offer a financial lifeline to the hospice sector ami

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‘Hospice care is life affirming’: call to focus on role of palliative care in UK assisted dying bill

Those running hospices want any change in the law to go hand in hand with greater government investment Sitting at his wife’s bedside, Len was grateful she was in the care of end-of-life experts in

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Should I Get a Handheld Ultrasound?

(MedPage Today) -- Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is changing the way clinicians diagnose and manage patients by enabling real-time ultrasound exams directly at the bedside.

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Paying Docs for Prior Authorizations Among the Hot Topics at the AMA Meeting

(MedPage Today) -- Paying physicians and their staff for their time spent on dealing with prior authorization requests and denials was a lively topic of conversation at Saturday's session of the Amer

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Vulnerable Australians ‘force-fed’ gambling and alcohol ads on Facebook, report finds

Study highlights ‘predatory marketing practices’ of companies who target people at high risk of gambling or alcohol-related harm Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVulnerab

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