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| Jan 21, 2026 | NIH-Backed Startup Amissa Launches AI Platform to Fix Menopause Careâs $24.8B Data Blind Spot | Amissa’s clinical dashboard transforms menopause symptom and wearable data into structured, clinician-ready insight.
Adopted nationwide, Amissa is the first clinical intelligence platform for menopauseâturning fragmented care into clear, ... |
| Jan 12, 2026 | VA hospitals recognized for reducing physician burnout | WASHINGTON — The American Medical Association has recognized seven VA health care facilities for their work to reduce physician burnout.
AMA’s Joy in Medicine Health System Recognition Program annually highlights health systems across the n... |
| Aug 9, 2025 | Heard of 'Japanese walking'? Here's why this fitness trend is worth trying | Going for a walk is one of the simplest workouts, but it can have powerful health impacts. Walking has been linked to improved mental and cardiovascular health, and it can be effective for managing back pain.
But not all walking is equally ... |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Trump’s Garden of Heroes is a $40 million tourist trap. What a waste. (Opinion) | Being freakishly good at your job is not heroism.
It doesn’t even guarantee lasting fame, since today’s “heroes” may be overshadowed by tomorrow’s stars. What then? Will Alex Trebek be replaced with Ken Jennings, costing taxpayers even more... |
| Jul 1, 2025 | New Bestseller Uses Hypnosis To Rewire the Subconscious, Helping Women 50+ Feel More Powerful In a Chaotic World | Not just a book - it's a subconscious rewiring experience for women 50+
At a time when women 50+ are facing historic stress, depression, and burnout, this book delivers something radical: actual transformation, not just talk.
This book shou... |
| Jul 11, 2024 | Cancer Patient Finds Voice Again After US' Third Successful Larynx Transplant | By John Lopez
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| Apr 9, 2024 | Health | Burden of getting medical care can exhaust older patients | Judith Graham | (TNS) KFF Health News
Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when she slipped and fell on a patch of black ice.
Pain shot through her left knee and ankle. After summoning her husband on... |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Higher Omega-3 Levels Associated with Improved Life Expectancy | Researchers suggest consuming about 1,000 milligrams of DHA+EPA per day is usually needed to achieve and maintain favorable omega-3 blood levels.
New study reveals lower risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality associated with higher ... |
| Jan 20, 2024 | Counteract Primary Care Clinician Burnout Through Psychiatric Collaborative Care | Burnout is quickly becoming a health crisis for providers and patients, according to the American Medical Association. A Mayo Clinic study highlighted alarming trends in physician burnout: 62% of physicians had at least one symptom of burno... |
| Jan 19, 2024 | Exclusive: Menopause care startup Midi is raising $60 million, just 4 months after its last funding round | Tech Exclusive: Menopause care startup Midi is raising $60 million, just 4 months after its last funding round
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| Dec 12, 2023 | It’s time to rethink the Medicare annual wellness visit | In 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services created the annual wellness visit (AWV), a new visit type with no cost to Medicare patients, better reimbursement to primary care practices, and higher assigned credit for clinicians’ ... |
| Dec 12, 2023 | Talkspace, Evernow Partner To Advance Mental Health, Menopause Care | About 61.4% of women experiencing perimenopause or menopause battle anxiety or depression. Recognizing this as an opportunity, digital mental health company Talkspace and digital menopause care company Evernow are teaming up to support wome... |
| Nov 28, 2023 | LinkedIn unveils new tools to help nurses advance their careers | Nurses can add qualifications and preferences to their profiles, and set preferences for recruiters
Healthcare staffing shortages and burnout are nothing new: even before COVID: more than half of nurses were at least 50 years old, and almos... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Health | The ‘doctor of nursing practice’ will see you now | Anna Claire Vollers | (TNS) Stateline.org
When Vernon Langford sees patients, he typically wears a white lab coat with his title — “Dr.” — and his credentials as a nurse practitioner stitched on the front.
“My credentials are on any jackets... |
| Oct 26, 2023 | Why Telehealth is Vital for Addressing the Children’s Mental Health Crisis Affecting Emergency Departments Nationwide | The mental health crisis among children and youth is on the rise, as is glaringly evident in gridlocked emergency rooms around the country. Schools, communities, and clinics have also seen an influx of youth with mental health conditions su... |
| Oct 5, 2023 | Health | A decade of data describes nationwide youth mental health crisis | Mayo Clinic Staff | (TNS) Mayo Clinic News Network
When Tanner Bommersbach, M.D., and a team of Mayo Clinic researchers analyzed national records of pediatric emergency department visits, they provided essential data to describe the growing... |
| Oct 2, 2023 | New District and Temple University Hospital partner to give students jobs in healthcare | Students get paid internships as rehabilitation aides, food service workers, and material handlers
Healthcare staffing shortages and burnout were an issue before COVID: in 2017, more than half of nurses were at least 50 years old, and almos... |
| Aug 24, 2023 | Krystal Cascetta, Lindsay Clancy, and the impossibility of being a mom in American medicine | In Igbo-Nigerian culture, new moms receive exquisite care from their own mothers, mothers-in-law, or surrogate mothers for the first few months postpartum. After each of my daughters was born, I was blessed to participate in this tradition,... |
| Aug 9, 2023 | Doctors all over the US are suffering from burnout — and AI could provide a simple solution | AI could offer the administrative support many doctors need. AleksandarNakic/Getty Images
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Doctors could soon be getting an extra hand in the office in the form of AI assistants.
One telehealth startup is using an AI chatbot to an... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | How telehealth startups are trying to fill the menopause care vacuum | At the turn of the century, nearly 18 million women in the United States were battling hot flashes, night sweats, and other symptoms of menopause with hormones. But in 2002, the therapy went into a free-fall when a landmark trial suggested ... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | Practitioners report that greater integration of lifestyle medicine into their medical practice helps manage and reduce burnout | American College of Lifestyle Medicine The results of this research are highly encouraging because clinician burnout is a growing problem that can not only impact the clinician's sense of wellbeing but also the safety and quality of care th... |
| May 19, 2023 | As Healthcare Organizations Get Bigger, Healthcare Workers Feel Smaller | As healthcare organizations consolidate and get bigger, many healthcare workers are left feeling ... [+] invisible and unseen.getty |
| May 2, 2023 | Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s Landmark Initiative On Loneliness And Social Isolation | Surgeon General Vivek Murthy today announced a ground-breaking new initiative to address social ... [+] isolation and loneliness.DNCC via Getty Images |
| Mar 8, 2023 | Healthcare Worker Burnout Is Rampant- Here’s What Should Be Done | WEST HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 12: Monique Hernandez, a nurse at Riverside Community Hospital in ... [+] Riverside, CA, Xochitl Gonzalez, a patient care tech at Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, CA, and Mary Blackman, a former nursing... |
| Feb 20, 2023 | Private Equity And The Monopolization Of Medical Care | From 2013 to 2016, private equity firms acquired 355 physician practices. In the four years that ... [+] followed, private equity acquired 578 additional physician practices. Those numbers continue to grow. getty |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Ученые из Норвегии: занятия спортом повышают качество сна и могут быть эффективнее снотворных | Физическое здоровье может улучшить качество сна, показало исследование Норвежского университета естественных и технических наук. От 10% до 20% людей в мире испытывают хронические проблемы со сном. Многие из тех, кто страдает от бессонницы, ... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | It’s time to retire ‘poor historian’ from clinicians’ vocabularies | Should we pity the “poor historian” — the individual or family member who can’t give a clear accounting of their illness or symptoms — or embrace them? They have important stories to offer their clinicians, but can’t tell them. Who is reall... |
| Jan 14, 2023 | Will California budget cuts take transit off track? | Programming note: The newsletter will take a break on Monday, Jan. 16 for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. We’ll be back in your inbox Tuesday, Jan. 17.
California’s projected $22.5 billion deficit means budget cuts are almost inevitabl... |
| Dec 28, 2022 | U.S. imposes Covid testing requirements on travelers from China | The United States will require all travelers from China to show a negative Covid-19 test before boarding flights to the U.S., federal health officials announced Wednesday, citing concerns about a surge of Covid infections in China and a lac... |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Three Ways Technology Can Help Alleviate Physician Burnout | Cofounder and Chief Medical Officer at PlushCare, a virtual medical care platform. |
| Nov 28, 2022 | New Clinical Study: AMI Meditation Reduces Physician Burnout and Stress While Elevating Compassion Levels––Even During the COVID-19 Pandemic | AMI Meditation Study Findings “The mind moves first, and the body follows. When physicians are provided effective Mind/Body tools and skills, they can transform the energy of stress and burnout into compassion, creativity and resilience.” -... |
| Nov 7, 2022 | Trying to quit my job as an ER doctor gave me reasons to stay | The morning was crisp and still dark as I sat in my car in the hospital lot, summoning the will to open the door and leave for my shift in the emergency department.
Like many frontline providers in early 2021, I felt pancaked by the two pan... |
| Nov 4, 2022 | The healthcare worker shortage worsens as over 300,000 left their jobs in 2021 | Hospitals are relying on contract workers, which costs more, and leads to worse patient outcomes
Healthcare staffing shortages and burnout are nothing new, and have been an issue among workers for while: in 2017, more than half of nurses we... |
| Oct 28, 2022 | How motivational interviewing can improve health workforce well-being | The National Academy of Medicine launched its National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being in early October. Citing years of research defining the causes and effects of burnout in health professions, internationally recognized leaders in h... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | More than 1 million Americans ration their insulin as the drug's cost skyrockets | About 1.3 million Americans rationed their prescribed doses of insulin last year to save money, a pattern one doctor said threatens the health — and even the lives — of people with diabetes.
Many people are taking less than the recommended ... |
| Sep 23, 2022 | Physician Burnout Significantly Increased During 2020 to 2021 | FRIDAY, Sept. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A dramatic increase in burnout occurred in U.S. physicians between 2020 and 2021, according to a study published online Sept. 13 in Mayo Clinical Proceedings.
Tait D. Shanafelt, M.D., from Stanford... |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Oprah-Backed Healthy Chain True Food Kitchen Rakes In $100 Million for Expansion Plans | 3 Mins Read
True Food Kitchen, the Oprah-backed healthy restaurant chain founded by Dr. Andrew Weil in 2008, says it has raised more than $100 million to fuel its growth plans.
The latest investment round was led by HumanCo and Manna Tree, ... |
| Aug 2, 2022 | Had a Kidney Stone? This Diet May Help Prevent Another | TUESDAY, Aug. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Anyone who has ever had a kidney stone never wants a repeat of the blinding pain that comes when it passes. Now, a new study maps out a diet that can help guard against that.
The cornerstones of tha... |
| Jun 28, 2022 | Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Feasible in Patients Over 80 | TUESDAY, June 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) may increase long-term survival even in elderly patients, according to a study published online June 20 in Mayo Clinical Proceedings.
Kukbin Choi, M.D., from ... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | How Oracle hopes to cash in on healthcare | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
‘’Healthcare is the largest and most important ve... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | How Oracle hopes to cash in on healthcare | Join today's leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here.
‘’Healthcare is the largest and most important vertical market in the world — $3.8 trillion last year in the United States alone,” Safra Catz, Oracle’s C... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | Model Predicts 30-Day Mortality in Alcohol-Related Hepatitis | FRIDAY, Feb. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A new scoring system can help identify individuals with alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH) who are at high risk for short-term mortality, according to a study published online Feb. 15 in the Mayo Cli... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Delta Air Lines : people look forward to welcoming over 8M holiday travelers | The Delta Difference for which our people are so well-known will be on full display this holiday season as at least 8.7 million travelers trust Delta to connect them with family, friends and loved ones from Dec. 17-Jan. 3.
Delta expects to ... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Delta Air Lines : people look forward to welcoming nearly 8M holiday travelers | The Delta Difference for which our people are so well-known will be on full display this holiday season as millions of travelers trust Delta to connect them with family, friends and loved ones from Dec. 17-Jan. 3.
Delta expects to serve at ... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | 8 research-backed benefits of acupuncture from pain relief to stress reduction | Reviews Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
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| Dec 7, 2021 | 8 research-backed benefits of acupuncture from pain relief to stress reduction | Benefits of acupuncture include relieving low back pain, headaches, and stress. Research on benefits continues to expand. Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images
Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine now widely used as a com... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | Joint : How to Celebrate the Holidays When Your Body Is Killing You | How to Celebrate the Holidays When Your Body Is Killing You
By Martha Michael
For most Americans the holidays are a mixed bag of merriment with the added stress of obligations and overspending. When you add the hardship of managing a health... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | Hemp oil is packed with healthy fatty acids – here’s why that’s great news for your skin and heart | Hemp oil is made from hemp seeds that are cold pressed. Pramote Polyamate/Getty Images
Hemp oil comes from seeds that grow on Cannabis sativa, the same plant species that yield marijuana.
Hemp oil has a healthy balance of fatty acids that m... |
| Aug 31, 2021 | Greenway Health Transforming EHR Platforms, Intergy and Prime Suite, to Meet Evolving Ambulatory Care Practice Needs | By putting client feedback into action, we are reimagining the clinical and support staff experience through user-researched designs and interfaces that will enhance the provider experience, product usability, and innovate the future of hea... |
| Jul 30, 2021 | How long it takes marijuana to leave your system and what to expect from a weed detox | Contrary to popular belief, exercising won’t help you detox from weed faster, but it can improve marijuana withdrawal symptoms. Westend61/Getty Images
A weed detox is when you stop using marijuana for a period of time to clear your body fro... |
| Jul 29, 2021 | How long it takes marijuana to leave your system and what to expect from a weed detox | Contrary to popular belief, exercising won’t help you detox from weed faster, but it can improve marijuana withdrawal symptoms. Westend61/Getty Images
A weed detox is when you stop using marijuana for a period of time to clear your body fro... |
| Jul 7, 2021 | Osso VR raises $27M to help surgeons master procedures using virtual reality | The company saw its engagement rise by 15x during COVID, as in-person training became impossible
While advances in healthcare technology are typically good for the patient, and the system as a whole, they are not always so great for the doc... |
| May 13, 2021 | Medical transcription startup DeepScribe raises $5.2M to alleviate physician burnout | The company is able to reduce time spent per appointment by 80%
Even before COVID, physicians were already feeling burned out; in January 2019, the Harvard School of Public Health and other institutions deemed physician burnout a “public he... |
| May 4, 2021 | People who lost their sense of smell because of Covid-19 are obsessively cleaning themselves | AaronAmat/Gettty Images
Loss of taste and smell is a common Covid-19 symptom.
Even though loss of smell isn't the most serious Covid-19 symptom, it can still be traumatic.
One expert says to stick to your regular showering routine if you ca... |
| Apr 21, 2021 | Even Raises $1.5 Million To Launch Solution To Replenish Nutrients And Manage Side Effects Resulting From Medication Use | Even is a medical company focused on improving the quality of life of medication usersEVEN |
| Apr 16, 2021 | A ketogenic diet brought me back to life. Will believing in its effectiveness make me a pariah in medical school? | My awareness of the limits of medical knowledge began when I was diagnosed with osteoporosis at the age of 18. It peaked with a near-death experience five years later, and was heightened even further when I discovered what’s known as a keto... |
| Mar 25, 2021 | Weed can stay in your system for a few days to a few months – here’s how to get it out faster | The more frequently you use the longer weed will stay in your system. Mayara Klingner / EyeEm/Getty Images
Weed can be detected in urine between one to 30 days after your last use.
Meanwhile, a saliva or blood test can only detect weed for ... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | For early testing of convalescent plasma, we were ‘building the plane while we were flying it’ | During the Covid-19 pandemic, clinicians have seen many remarkable things. Among them is how a 19th-century therapy called convalescent plasma came to be used in more than 500,000 hospitalized Covid-19 patients the United States and elsewhe... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Axiom Healthcare Services and Azalea Health Collaborate on Innovative EHR Platform Customized for Behavioral Health | We chose Azalea because they were willing to innovate and collaborate with our psychiatric team to tailor the EHR design to our workflows, saving our staff time in learning to navigate the system.
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Azalea Healt... |
| Dec 31, 2020 | What it’s like to live in Finland, the happiest country in the world | Helsinki is Finland’s capital. Ojimorena / iStock
Finland came in first in the World Happiness Report from Gallup for the third year running.
People in Finland enjoy universal healthcare and a successful school system, both of which contrib... |
| Dec 25, 2020 | Follow this 5-step guide to check for breast cancer at home | Regular self-breast exams can help you spot symptoms of breast cancer like lumps, scabbing, and other ireggularities.
You should check your breasts at the same time each month, around 3-5 days after your period ends.
Not all breast lumps ar... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | What Big Tech and Big Tobacco research funding have in common | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Amid declining sales and evidence that smoking ca... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | What Big Tech and Big Tobacco research funding have in common | Amid declining sales and evidence that smoking causes lung cancer, in the 1950s tobacco companies undertook PR campaigns to reinvent themselves as socially responsible and to shape public opinions. They also started funding research into th... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | How to sustain independent physician practices | But modern private practice faces increasing economic challenges often driven by non-medical issues such as increasing administrative burdens; large fixed overhead for staff, equipment, and space; and the lack of time or resources to develo... |
| Sep 4, 2020 | Telemedicine and addiction recovery: A new way forward? | Will the future of addiction recovery take place on video conference screens and emailed notes? Even a few months ago, treating addiction patients remotely might seem like a stretch at first listen — metaphorically, geographically, and medi... |
| Jul 2, 2020 | Fever checks are a flawed way to flag Covid-19 cases. Experts say smell tests might help | Workplaces do it. Newly reopened public libraries do it. LAX does it. Some restaurants, bars, and retail stores started doing it when governors let them serve customers again: Use temperature checks — almost always with “non-contact infrare... |
| Jun 12, 2020 | Fee for service is a terrible way to pay for health care. Try a subscription model instead | Amid the nightly roar of applause for health care workers courageously caring for Covid-19 patients, many of them are losing their jobs.
The crisis behind quarantine clapping — a communal show of gratitude for the workers braving the pandem... |
| Mar 5, 2020 | Suki raises $20M to alleviate physician burnout with a virtual assistant | Bill Geary, general partner at Flare Capital Partners, has joined Suki's Board of Directors
[Editor's note: Future of Behavioral and Mental Health with BetterHelp, Headspace, Ginger.io, Providence Hospitals, UnitedHealthcare Optum, Khosla V... |
| Mar 4, 2020 | This AI Software Company Just Raised $20 Million To Help Prevent Physician Burnout | The Suki AI team in 2019Suki AI |
| Feb 12, 2020 | A daughter’s plea: Doctors must stop shirking palliative care | The first time I lost my dad was in 2010, just a few weeks after his 62nd birthday. On a Sunday morning in December, he called me from his local emergency room in Pennsylvania. His speech was slurred and, as my heart pounded with dread, I k... |
| Jan 13, 2020 | The Boldest Healthcare Prediction For 2020: Business As Usual | Getty |
| Jan 8, 2020 | TeleVet $2M for its telehealth platform aimed at veterinarians | The platform is aimed at alleviating burnout among vets, who have a high suicide rate
Physician burnout is coming down, but it's still extremely prevalent, with over 40 percent of doctors in the United States still saying they were exhibiti... |
| Dec 15, 2019 | How New Tech Is Recycling The Old | LISBON, PORTUGAL - NOVEMBER 21: A young man rides a Jump-Uber e-scooter between police officers in ... [+] Praça Marques de Pombal on November 21, 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. Uber has now joined the electric scooter sharing companies in the c... |
| Oct 31, 2019 | The EMR has changed the doctor-patient duet into a ménage-à-trois | You would have thought that my hospital was preparing for the imminent coming of the messiah. Digital countdown clocks posted around the hospital ticked down the weeks, days, minutes, and seconds till the vaunted day. For months, every medi... |
| Oct 29, 2019 | Twistle raises $16M to automate doctor/patient conversations | The company answers patient questions using AI, and only brings in doctors when they're needed
The relationship between doctors and their patients is changing thanks to technology that allows an ongoing conversation between the two sides to... |
| Oct 7, 2019 | TMCx medical software company taps Houston for first U.S. market | Long hours, high-stress situations and overwhelming college debt contribute to burnout among physicians. But so does something you might not have pondered: record keeping.
The clerical burden triggered by electronic medical records, or EHRs... |
| Sep 1, 2019 | Грязная борьба за чистые руки: конкуренция между бумажными полотенцами и электрическими сушилками Статьи редакции | На протяжении последнего столетия в общественных туалетах господствовали бумажные полотенца. Однако новое поколение электрических сушилок развязало войну за главенство в уборной. Перевод материала Саманта Субраманьяна для The Guardian.
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| Jun 25, 2019 | Can virtual assistants make healthcare more human? Startups create voice tech for doctors and patients | Ryan Plasch, vice president of growth and strategy at Saykara, and CEO Harjinder Sandhu. (GeekWire Photo)
Peek into a random hospital room in the U.S. today, and you might see something that makes you cynical about technology. The classic s... |
| Mar 7, 2019 | Judy Faulkner asked the press to dig into physician burnout and EHR satisfaction. So we did | “Here’s something I wish the press would do. And that is, the latest studies I’ve seen are showing that there’s not a high correlation between happiness with the EHR and happiness with their job and the problem of burnout. I think it would ... |
| Feb 6, 2019 | New voices at patients’ bedsides: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple | At first it was a novelty: Hospitals began using voice assistants to allow patients to order lunch, check medication regimens, and get on-demand medical advice at home.
But these devices, manufactured by Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and... |
| Jul 10, 2018 | Stanford researchers develop AI that can predict pharmaceutical drug interactions | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
For many Americans, taking prescription pills is a part of a never-ending routine. About seven out of ten people take at least one drug... |
| Jun 28, 2018 | Patients who have had suicidal thoughts are often excluded from antidepressant trials. The FDA says they don’t need to be | The Food and Drug Administration is overhauling its guidance for developing treatments for major depressive disorder for the first time since 1977 — and this time around, it’s making clear that patients with a history of suicidal thoughts o... |
| May 8, 2018 | Giving doctors the ‘capability’ they need to care for patients can fight burnout | When I was 21, I drove an ambulance in New Orleans. The city had the highest rate of gun violence in the country at the time, which kept me busy. But I spent way too many hours picking up non-emergency patients who treated my ambulance as a... |
| Mar 14, 2017 | To prevent physician burnout and depression, tackle debt and financial stress | Burnout, depression, and even thoughts of suicide can start early in physicians’ careers. The seeds are often planted in medical school. A big contributor is the financial burden that many medical students take on, which gets compounded as ... |
| Jan 5, 2017 | More people without celiac disease going gluten-free | Long-term health consequences of a gluten-free diet warrant further investigation.
ROCHESTER, MINN. — The number of Americans who avoid gluten even though they do not have celiac disease more than tripled from 2009-2014, increasing to an es... |
| Dec 15, 2016 | Why are doctors burned out? Our health care system is a complicated mess | Why did the idea of dismantling Obamacare resonate with voters in the election? The answer may lie in “Your New Health Care System,” the utterly incomprehensible flow chart (above) created by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee in 20... |
| Nov 29, 2016 | I was burning out as a doctor. A Tesla road trip helped me stop it | Burnout is eating away at health care providers across the United States. I was recently feeling like a case study. But I found my way back by thinking deeply about why my energy had faded and by taking time to care for my own health.
When ... |
| Sep 28, 2016 | Many ex-FDA drug reviewers take ‘revolving door’ to pharma industry | “We all know about these anecdotal cases” of a person who was “often a major player at the FDA, someone in an important role — and then they leave the FDA and go and work for industry,” Prasad said, but he couldn’t find anyone who knew whet... |
| Sep 2, 2016 | 5 ways hospitals are improving the workplace on Labor Day and beyond | Long hours. High stress. Not enough time to stop and regroup.
These are the causes of burnout, and more than half of responding doctors reported feeling its effects in a 2014 survey by Mayo Clinic and the American Medical Association.
With ... |
| Jul 22, 2016 | Sticks and stones and snake oil: What will inform next chapter of healthcare IT development? | But that’s the way it is in healthcare. Physicians routinely spend more time doing things on a computer than they used to when all patient records and clinical processes were paper-based. That’s a huge drain on an already over-taxed healthc... |
| Aug 21, 2015 | Is Sitting Really as Bad as Smoking? | Sometime in the past few months, you've probably seen this headline:
Sitting is the New Smoking!
Really? Is this just well-written click bait? How could sitting – something nearly everyone does for hours a day – be as dangerous as smoking c... |
| Jun 8, 2015 | Memory based dietary assessment methods such as NHANES are “fundamentally and fatally flawed”, argues researcher | In a critical review* led by Edward Archer PhD, MS (a research fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham), and published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the authors argue that memory based dietary assessment methods (such ... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Changing the culture of American Medicine — Start by removing hubris | That’s not been the case for me. In fact, it’s closer to the opposite. In the exam room, as I look up to the patient from my stool, and before I stand at the white board to explain, I often find myself pausing for a moment to think: Is this... |
| High AI-ECG-AF Risk Score Tied to Worse Cognition, Cognitive Decline | WEDNESDAY, May 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiogram (AI-ECG) for atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with cognition and may predict cognitive decline, according to a study published in the May... |
| Hospital CEOs’ workforce concerns can be alleviated with the right tech | The news: Workforce challenges came in as hospital CEOs’ No.1 concern for the second consecutive year, according to the American College of Healthcare Executives’ annual survey.
281 hospital CEOs ranked 11 issues from most pressing to least... |
| Many ex-FDA drug reviewers take ‘revolving door’ to pharma industry | More than a quarter of the Food and Drug Administration employees who approved cancer and hematology drugs from 2001 through 2010 left the agency and now work or consult for pharmaceutical companies, according to research published by a pro... |
| In ‘Drop Out Club,’ desperate doctors counsel each other on quitting the field | “Burned out cardiac surgeon seeks opportunities or empathy,” one message reads. “I feel stuck,” another confides. A third says simply, “I don’t want to be a doctor anymore!”
The posts come in from across the globe, each generating its own t... |
| How to sustain independent physician practices | Even before the pandemic, independent physician practices were facing challenges.
Beyond safeguarding the health and welfare of their patients, independent physician practices play a critical role in the fabric of our health system. They’re... |
| Telemedicine and addiction recovery: A new way forward? | Will the future of addiction recovery take place on video conference screens and emailed notes? Even a few months ago, treating addiction patients remotely might seem like a stretch at first listen — metaphorically, geographically, and medi... |
