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- Inadequate payment is just one of many factors that negatively affect daily practice and contribute to burnout among primary care physicians. Also problematic are growing piles of nonclinical tasks.
- When a dying patient’s parents refuse to give up hope, her physician opts to hope with them, going to unusual lengths to provide a last treatment he knows will be futile.
- A pediatric oncologist’s outlook and practice are transformed when a 10-year-old cricket fanatic with acute lymphoblastic leukemia touches her heart.
- Research generally suggests that routine surveillance after cancer treatment finds more recurrences — leading to more surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation — without affecting the risk of death.
- Despite greater recognition of the harms of alcohol use, U.S. alcohol taxes are at all-time lows. A reexamination may help inform national debates about revenue generation, spending cuts, and public health.
- The current crisis in the United States is bigger than politics, and it deeply affects the health and lives of our patients and communities. Now is the time for physicians to harness their power and act.
- New federal policies permit immigration officials to enter health care facilities to conduct enforcement activities. How can health care professionals protect their patients, themselves, and their institutions?
- The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment benefit supports access to various services for Medicaid-covered children. But few clinicians are aware of the extent of its coverage guarantees.
- The discovery of a highly efficacious option for preexposure prophylaxis that requires only twice-yearly administration has led to the question of whether a vaccine is still needed to end the HIV epidemic.
- As the fossil-fuel industry continues to obstruct efforts to curtail pollution from its products, the health community should use strategies that have been effective in fighting other health-harming industries.
- During the American Revolution, more than in any subsequent U.S. war, doctors played critical roles beyond their medical functions. A key leader at the outset of the war was Dr. Joseph Warren.
- Severing the long-standing ties and scientific collaborations between the United States and the WHO and slashing U.S. financial support will have catastrophic effects on both domestic and global health.
- In January, the FDA proposed substantially limiting the level of nicotine permitted in cigarettes. The proposal is expected to face strong industry opposition during a time of political uncertainty.
- Over the past two decades, the health care spending growth rate in the United States has declined. But reducing the emphasis on value-based care could lead to a resurgence in spending growth.
- The dismantling of foreign-assistance efforts has already had, and will continue to have, severe effects on vulnerable populations globally. But it also has implications for people in the United States.
- The U.S. shortage of primary care physicians disproportionately affects underserved communities, and the inequities are compounded by the racial and linguistic diversity gaps between patients and doctors.
- Affirm: The Rush Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Health aims to improve access to culturally competent, relevant health care for the LGBTQ+ community throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
- Recognizing that financially strapped students find their residency choices constrained by cost-of-living considerations, Mass General Brigham began supplementing the salaries of residents in need.
- When an insurer repeatedly denies coverage of cochlear implant surgery for an infant with profound sensorineural hearing loss, his physician struggles with the ramifications of breaking a sacred promise.
- As climate change exacerbates existing health disparities, a new curriculum arms residents to provide climate-informed patient care, advance climate advocacy, and improve health system sustainability.
