(MedPage Today) — A recent study found that if the funding cuts to scientific research proposed by the Trump administration had been in place in past decades, critical medications for lung cancer, leukemia, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases might never… Powered by WPeMatico

(MedPage Today) — Someone once told me that if you order enough lab tests on a patient, you’ll find something. Not necessarily something you wanted to find, not necessarily something that matters clinically to the patient, but something. Something… Powered by WPeMatico

(MedPage Today) — Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed the “Real Food, Healthy Kids Act” into law, directing the state’s Department of Public Health to identify “ultra-processed foods” (UPFs) and ban them from schools by… Powered by WPeMatico

(MedPage Today) — “It could be cheap, but it still could be poison.” — Stuart Weinerman, MD, of Northwell Health in Great Neck, New York, on the dangers of buying compounded retatrutide, an unapproved weight-loss drug still in clinical trial… Powered by WPeMatico

(MedPage Today) — Recently, I was honored by the New York Celtic Medical Society with their “Healer” award — a recognition that prompted me to reflect on the meaning of healing. What does it mean to be a healer in a time when the pace of medicine… Powered by WPeMatico

(MedPage Today) — As I’m about to get out of my car and head into the hospital for my shift, I notice a shiny black Porsche wheel in. It is one of the only other cars in the parking lot on this lazy, early summer Saturday morning, and the driver… Powered by WPeMatico

(MedPage Today) — In the U.S., no politically driven healthcare crisis ever really ends. It just mutates. Case in point: the current debate over extending enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance tax credits, which will expire at the… Powered by WPeMatico

(MedPage Today) — During my 6 years as the director of disaster preparedness for 21 hospitals in Northern California, there were a few scenarios that kept me up at night: a patient with a highly infectious pathogen (think Ebola) in a crowded waiting… Powered by WPeMatico