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‘Nonsensical’ Limits on Support Drugs Complicate Cancer Care Oncologists are looking to discount pharmacy options like GoodRX and CostPlus for their patients as insurers place more restrictions on supportive care medications.
Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2024

ImmunoPET Tracer Can Detect Common Kidney Cancers PET imaging using a radiolabeled antibody picked up clear cell renal cell carcinoma and could help avert unnecessary biopsies and surgeries.
Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2024
NCCN Expands Cancer Genetic Risk Assessment Guidelines Updates to two genetic risk assessment guidelines now include prostate, endometrial, and gastric cancer to reflect the growing understanding of hereditary cancer risk and value of genetic testing.
Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2024
When or Whether to Give Immunotherapy in Early Breast Cancer Neoadjuvant immunotherapy offers a survival benefit in specific subtypes of patients but seems to offer no benefit in the adjuvant setting.
Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2024
FMF 2024 PSA Testing: Which Canadians Have Greater Need? A family physician encouraged the use of shared decision-making, following the discussion with patients of the pros and cons of prostate cancer screening.
Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2024

Are Targeted Drugs the Future in Colorectal Cancer? Prof David Kerr discusses the future of molecularly targeted drugs and cell targets for colorectal cancer.
Medscape Oncology, October 7, 2024
Meeting Needs in the Hospital: Who Is in Charge? Dr Mark Kris discusses the need for patients and their families to know who is in charge of care.
Medscape Oncology, November 20, 2024
Only 7% of Patients With Cancer Enroll in Clinical Trials Dr Maurie Markman discusses a recent paper providing an estimate of the proportion of patients with cancer participating in therapeutic trials.
Medscape Oncology, November 13, 2024
Colon Cancer in Young People: Not an Obesity Issue John L. Marshall, MD, discusses colon cancer in young people.
Medscape Oncology, April 14, 2023
The Clinical Utility of ctDNA Testing: Not There Yet Dr Kathy Miller discusses the clinical utility of ctDNA testing.
Medscape Oncology, March 27, 2024
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.
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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
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Opioid Ingestion in Kids: The Huge Increase in ICU Admissions
Medscape Pediatrics

Italian Health Workers Strike Over Pay, Under-investment Thousands of Italian doctors and nurses stayed at home on Wednesday to protest over their pay and conditions in the latest sign of malaise in the country's struggling health...
Reuters Health Information, November 20, 2024
IV Fluid Shortage May Change Hospital Hydration Practices
KFF Health News, November 20, 2024
Trump Taps Dr Mehmet Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid
Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2024
The Emotional Cost of Nursing School: Depression
Medscape Medical News, November 19, 2024

Recognizing Burnout: Why Physicians Often Miss the Signs in Themselves Burnout is hard to recognize, especially for doctors. Learn how to identify the signs early and what to do when you’re struggling.
Medscape, November 20, 2024
Breaking the Cycle: Self-Compassion Matters for Physicians Being hard on oneself is ingrained in medical culture. Discover how self-compassion can transform your approach to medicine and improve well-being.
Medscape, November 20, 2024

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