June 2, 2023
The costs of providing evidence-based interventions in primary care to address social needs far exceed current federal funding streams, say the authors of a new analysis. […]
June 2, 2023
Linda Bluestein remembers all the doctors who missed, ignored, or incompletely diagnosed her chronic illness. There was the orthopedic surgeon who noted her hyperextended elbows but […]
June 2, 2023
Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) could enhance care of hospitalized people with diabetes, supplementing or possibly even replacing the use of finger sticks to draw blood to […]
June 1, 2023
Even the plague wanted to visit Stonehenge We’re about to blow your mind: The history you learned in school was often inaccurate. Shocking, we know, so […]
May 31, 2023
Treatment of chronic back pain remains a challenge for primary care physicians, and a new Cochrane Review confirms previous studies suggesting that analgesics and antidepressants fall […]
May 31, 2023
Fewer than half of internists consider themselves “fairly paid,” according to the Medscape Internist Compensation Report 2023, which puts internal medicine physicians in the bottom three […]
May 30, 2023
Internists experienced many of the usual ups and downs regarding nonclinical matters in 2022: Compensation was up, but satisfaction with compensation was down; the percentage of […]
May 30, 2023
Doctors or AI? Lukewarm vote of confidence goes to… Well, we’ve got some good news for the physicians out there, and we’ve got some bad news. […]
May 24, 2023
New hydrogels can flow easily through a needle yet maintain their gel form, releasing medicine slowly inside the body. Imagine a day when a simple injection […]