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Drugmakers Limit Cancer Patient Access to Financial Lifeline Several major drugmakers have restricted commercially insured patients from their patient assistance programs, leaving patients uncertain about how they’ll be able to afford their medications.
Medscape Medical News, January 16, 2025

Alert FDA Approves New ADC for HR+, HER2- Breast Cancer The approval marks the first in the US for the novel antibody drug conjugate.
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2025
‘Alarming Disparities’ in Cancer Trends and Shift to Women, Younger Adults Annual cancer statistics report identifies persistent racial and ethnic disparities and increases in certain cancers in women and younger adults.
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2025
Are Alcohol Warning Labels Coming to Canada? Labels would inform consumers of alcohol’s link with cancer risk and potentially curb alcohol consumption, say Canadian public health experts.
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2025
Breast Cancer Screening at 40 Seems Cost-Effective in Canada As cancer treatment costs have increased, identifying and treating early-stage cancer sooner reduces expenses and improves patient outcomes.
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2025

Benefits of Playing Drums: Physical, Mental, and Social Professor David Kerr discusses the benefits of drumming.
Medscape Oncology, January 2, 2025
Progression on Systemic Therapy: Additional Considerations Dr Mark Kris continues a discussion about considerations related to the many faces of progression on systemic therapy.
Medscape Oncology, December 26, 2024
Lack of Chemoradiation Impact in Endometrial Cancer Dr Maurie Markman discusses the impact of chemoradiation in endometrial cancer, and the importance of conducting studies such as this quicker in the future.
Medscape Oncology, January 14, 2025
Colon Cancer in Young People: Not an Obesity Issue John L. Marshall, MD, discusses colon cancer in young people.
Medscape Oncology, April 14, 2023
How Anti-DEI Laws May Undermine Clinical Trial Results Dr Kathy Miller discusses anti-DEI legislation and the implications for future research.
Medscape Oncology, January 13, 2025
On the Front Line With Long COVID and POTS A pioneer in dysautonomia shares pearls on approaching patients with long COVID and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.
Medscape, June 3, 2024

What's Driving Physician Burnout in 2018?At a session on burnout at the ESC meeting in Munich, Dr Walton-Shirley heard a first-hand account of a cardiologist who had a breakdown. The panelists left her hopeful that things will improve.
theheart.org on Medscape
New PCOS Guidance: First Steps in Primary Care
Medscape Internal Medicine
Culture-Specific Psychiatric Syndromes: A Review
Medscape Psychiatry
Five Reasons I Don't Believe an Imaging Test Improves Outcomes
theheart.org on Medscape
Opioid Ingestion in Kids: The Huge Increase in ICU Admissions
Medscape Pediatrics

Drugmakers Limit Cancer Patient Access to Financial Lifeline Several major drugmakers have restricted commercially insured patients from their patient assistance programs, leaving patients uncertain about how they’ll be able to afford their medications.
Medscape Medical News, January 16, 2025
Med School Students Less Diverse Post–Supreme Court Decision
Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2025
Health Care AI Requires a Lot of Expensive Humans
KFF Health News, January 15, 2025
Trump’s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block
KFF Health News, January 15, 2025

Focus On Safeguards in Promoting Organ Donation: Ethicist Ethicist Art Caplan discusses a recent misdiagnosed organ donor candidate in Kentucky and the need to highlight safeguards when promoting organ donation.
Medscape Business of Medicine, January 15, 2025
The Real Reason Ultraprocessed Foods Are Ruining Our Health A new machine learning algorithm provides a 'food processing score' for every food on grocery store shelves, but will it lead to healthier eating?
Medscape, January 14, 2025

Eric J. Topol, MD Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Executive Vice President and Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute; Senior Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape