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Do or Die: Community Oncology Needs More Fellows Community oncology practices face challenges in attracting oncology fellows, highlighting the need for more fellows to ensure long-term sustainability.
Medscape Medical News, May 8, 2024

ACMS 2024 Reimbursement Rates for Mohs Surgery Lag Behind Inflation Healthcare delivery costs are rising, but there has been a lag in the increase in dermatologic procedure reimbursement rates.
Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2024
Hypofractionated RT Limits Toxic Effects in Cervical Cancer Patients undergoing post-surgery radiotherapy plus chemotherapy may benefit from a hypofractionated regimen to limit toxicities, a new study suggested.
Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2024
DDW 2024 Oral Microbiome Test Could Detect Gastric Cancer Earlier An oral rinse shows distinct differences in the microbiomes of people with pre-gastric or gastric cancer compared with controls, suggesting the possibility of a new tool for early detection.
Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2024
ACMS 2024 Immunosuppression Risk Factor for Poor cSCC Outcomes In contrast to earlier findings, immunosuppression was an independent risk factor for disease-specific death and major poor outcomes.
Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2024

'We're Just Not Doing It Right': Caring for Medical Students Prof David Kerr discusses the training of medical students and the lack of care for them.
Medscape Oncology, April 30, 2024
Call to Action: Prioritizing Cure in Lung Cancer Dr Mark Kris discusses the prioritization of cure and the impact on clinical trial design.
Medscape Oncology, April 29, 2024
Concerning Trends: Lack of HPV Vaccination in the United States Dr Maurie Markman discusses concerning trends related to HPV vaccination.
Medscape Oncology, May 9, 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
Unleashing Our Immune Response to Quash Cancer We need to ramp up our game if we are going to be able to use our immune system to quash a cancer. Fortunately, we have abundant and ever-growing capabilities for doing just that.
Medscape, February 20, 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

ACMS 2024 Reimbursement Rates for Mohs Surgery Lag Behind Inflation Healthcare delivery costs are rising, but there has been a lag in the increase in dermatologic procedure reimbursement rates.
Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2024
US Lawmakers Could Lift Restrictions on Doc-Owned Hospitals
Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2024
More Med Residents Avoiding States With Abortion Restrictions
KFF Health News, May 10, 2024
AMA: Rural Health System 'Teetering on Brink' of Collapse
Medscape Medical News, May 9, 2024

Ethics of Living Limb Donation: Is Donor Competent? Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations for living limb donation.
Medscape Business of Medicine, May 1, 2024
Opportunistic AI for Medical Scans A remarkable wealth of data are being missed.
Medscape, April 23, 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