Medical School Affiliated With HCA Healthcare Welcomes Its First Class 50 students at the Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine received their white coats last week Aug 05, 2024
Prescription-Free Online Semaglutide Is Risky Business Over 40% of pharmacy sites offering GLP-1 drug without a script are known to operate illegally Aug 05, 2024
PA Group Asks AMA for Policy Truce An open letter to the AMA calls for an end to its "divisive campaign against PAs" Aug 05, 2024
Lupus Organ Damage Most Often Comes Early Spanish cohort study tracked patients for up to 20 years after diagnosis Aug 05, 2024
Medicine Made LGBTQ+ Health the Problem. Medical Schools Can Help Course Correct. Medical training has let discrimination go unchecked for far too long Aug 05, 2024
Millions of Americans Use Potentially Hepatotoxic Botanical Products And liver injuries tied to herbal and dietary supplements are on the rise, data show Aug 05, 2024
The Next Big Shiny Thing These new devices never live up to their promises, but I keep hoping anyway Aug 05, 2024
Harris' California Healthcare Battles Signal Fights Ahead for Hospitals If She Wins But if elected as president, she could face a less hospitable political environment Aug 05, 2024
Younger Adults Are Going Public With Their Digestive Problems Experts say it's mostly a good thing Aug 05, 2024
Coffee-Dementia Link Continues to Unfurl Two studies hint at protective relationships for some coffee and tea drinkers Aug 05, 2024
Aerosmith Retires After Injury; All Zepbound Doses Now Available; Guacamole Recalled Health news and commentary gathered by Bվ staff Aug 05, 2024
Intermittent Fasting May Improve Memory, Executive Function, Early Trial Suggests Exploratory study lays groundwork for larger trials to evaluate brain health Aug 04, 2024
'Living Through My Worst Nightmare': What We Heard This Week Quotable quotes heard by Bվ's reporters Aug 04, 2024
GOP Charge That Harris Backed Tax-Funded Care for All Immigrants Overlooks Details PolitiFact has found the claim to be "Mostly False" Aug 04, 2024
Ten Years Later, the Ice Bucket Challenge Is Again Fundraising for ALS The campaign has raised $250 million so far and led to an added $1 billion in research funding Aug 04, 2024
Did America's Trust in Physicians Slide After COVID? You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz Aug 03, 2024
New Firearm Injury Numbers; Another Indication for Semaglutide? Also in TTHealthWatch: bilateral mastectomy for breast cancer Aug 03, 2024 podcast
FDA Advisors Mostly Convinced Arimoclomol Works for Rare Genetic Disorder If approved, this would be the first drug for Niemann-Pick disease type C Aug 03, 2024
The Promise of 'Magic Mushrooms' for Mental Health Is Real But more research and careful regulation is necessary Aug 03, 2024
POCUS and Malpractice: Separating Fact From Fear The benefit to patients from point-of-care ultrasound should outweigh litigation concerns Aug 03, 2024
Healthcare Groups Want Congress to Make Assaulting a Health Worker a Federal Crime Legislation introduced in House and Senate calls for prison sentence of up to 20 years Aug 02, 2024
AI-Powered Device Estimated Gestational Age as Accurately as Sonographers Tool could be useful in resource-limited settings without expensive ultrasound equipment Aug 02, 2024
Midlife Blood Biomarkers Predict Late-Life Dementia Study provides clues that one day, we could detect who's at risk decades in advance Aug 02, 2024
Approval in Endometrial Cancer Expanded; Masks at Cancer Centers; NPR Reporter Dies News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues Aug 02, 2024
Industry Clinic • Ad Insights Our Understanding of IBD Has Come a Long Way—So Have the Options to Treat It Aug 02, 2024
Physician Fights Insurer to Cover Her Baby's Brain Cancer Treatment Blue Cross of Idaho denied coverage for costly drug multiple times Aug 02, 2024
FDA Greenlights First Engineered Cell Therapy for a Solid Tumor Afamitresgene autoleucel (Tecelra) approved for metastatic synovial sarcoma Aug 02, 2024
After the End of Roe v. Wade, a New Beginning for Maternity Homes Every resident learns about parenting and adoption and has the freedom to choose, said one home Aug 02, 2024
Statin Use Linked to Higher Risk of Glaucoma In contrast, a larger but less diverse study found cholesterol-lowering drugs protective Aug 02, 2024
Medicare Lags, Medicaid Leads for Biosimilar Uptake Infliximab copycat usage varies widely with payer type Aug 02, 2024
NIH Loses in Court; NSYNC Member's New Diagnosis; Chief Resident Dies at 32 Health news and commentary gathered by Bվ staff Aug 02, 2024
MedPod Today: Latest AIDS 'Cure'; Seine Swimming Risks; Slushie Dangers for Kids? Bվ reporters offer further insights into these recently covered topics Aug 02, 2024 podcast
Where Harris' VP Options Stand on Healthcare A look at the healthcare track records of Shapiro, Kelly, Walz, and Buttigieg Aug 01, 2024
More E-Cig Use Linked to Greater Chances of Quitting Smoking National study also weighs in on the impact of vape liquid flavors Aug 01, 2024
PBMs Overpay Their Own Pharmacies to the Detriment of Insurers, Taxpayers, FTC Says But the interim report was criticized by business owners and the PBM trade group Aug 01, 2024
From Gaza to Kyiv, a Palestinian Doctor Lives Between Two Wars "I was in a war there, and now I am in a war here," he says Aug 01, 2024
Senate Probe of Births in Prisons Exposes 'Pervasive Abuse and Mistreatment' Women shared stories of shackled bellies, giving birth on dirty floors or in the toilet Aug 01, 2024