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(MedPage Today) -- I have always been a "trial by fire" learner. As a resident, my attendings were harsh, relentless taskmasters who demanded perfection. The early days were grueling, but made me who I am as a surgeon and instilled in me a deep...

Some older Americans have come to depend on virtual consultations with doctors, covered by Medicare. To keep that option in the future, Congress will have to act quickly.

(MedPage Today) -- In this video, healthcare marketing consultant Ron Harman King, JD, MS, examines the shocking assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and its ripple effects through an already volatile American healthcare system...

Early intervention tries to rein in psychotic disorders before they can ruin young lives. For Kevin Lopez, everything is on the line.

(MedPage Today) -- Early in 2024, we reported on the FDA's call for new boxed warnings on the labeling of all approved chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies for the potential risk for secondary T-cell malignancies. In this report, we...

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(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 of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...

(MedPage Today) -- The patient's check-up begins, as most now do, by sitting down and typing my username and password into a computer. After a kind greeting, I launch into the growing checklist of tasks called quality measures, which now define...

(MedPage Today) -- In February, we reported on a cheating scandal that resulted in U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores being invalidated for hundreds of Nepali test takers, some of whom later filed a class action lawsuit. In this...

“As a chronic pain patient, I have experienced the anguish and degradation of being denied pain medication firsthand,” a STAT reader writes.