Doc Who Said COVID Vax Can Magnetize People Has License Reinstated
(MedPage Today) -- Sherri Tenpenny, DO, the Ohio physician who claimed COVID vaccines can magnetize people, had her medical license reinstated last month, according to the State Medical Board of Ohio.
Tenpenny's license was suspended indefinitely... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 7, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
How the FTC Protects Patients in Healthcare
(MedPage Today) -- In Part 1 of this exclusive video interview, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, and Lina Khan, JD, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), discuss the agency's role in healthcare.
The FTC oversees consumer... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 7, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Celebrating Nurses Week: Hats Off to All the RNs
(MedPage Today) -- This week is National Nurses Week in the U.S., and Sunday is International Nurses Day.
I'll just say it right up front: without registered nurses (RNs), I couldn't be remotely effective as an emergency physician. So, to celebrate... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 7, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Planters Nuts Recalled; IV Drips for Jet Lag; Farm States Push Back on Bird Flu Plan
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Some Planters brand nuts have been voluntarily recalled for potential listeria contamination, Hormel Foods said.
Say goodbye to hangovers and jet lag: IV drips... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 7, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Medicare Hospital Trust Fund to Stay Solvent Until 2036, Trustees' Report Says
(MedPage Today) -- The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is expected to remain solvent until 2036, 5 years longer than projected last year, the Medicare trustees said Monday in their annual report to Congress, but they also expressed concern... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 7, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Fed Up With Prior Auths? What if Insurers Had to Pay You for Submitting Them?
(MedPage Today) -- Are you and your staff sick of spending hours on the phone to get prior authorization for procedures and treatments your patients need? One New York City urologist thinks he may have an answer: doctors should bill the insurers... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 6, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Having a PCP Important in Cervical Cancer Screening, Especially for LGB Women
(MedPage Today) -- Having a primary care practitioner (PCP) improved cervical cancer screening rates among cisgender women, a retrospective cohort study found.
Lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) women were both less likely to be up-to-date with cervical... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 6, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
The Plight of the Late-Boomer Physician
(MedPage Today) -- I'm wondering if there are any docs out there -- past, present and future -- who feel they've been born at the wrong time. I certainly do.
I was a child of the 1950s, a time the likes of which I don't think we'll see for... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 6, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
A Rare Chance to Really Connect
(MedPage Today) -- Every once in a while, we have the time.
Just a few weeks ago, in what had originally looked like an incredibly busy afternoon practice schedule, I suddenly had two back-to-back appointments canceled at the last minute.
As... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 6, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Network of People Who Help Others Get Abortions See Themselves as 'The Underground'
(MedPage Today) -- NAMPA, Idaho -- Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of "abortion aftercare kits," Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who'd taken abortion pills 3 weeks earlier was worried about bleeding -- and disclosing... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 6, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Lack of Clinical Trial Availability Tied to Worse Prostate Cancer Mortality
(MedPage Today) -- SAN ANTONIO -- A lack of access to prostate cancer clinical trials in socially vulnerable areas of the U.S. was associated with significantly higher prostate cancer mortality rates, according to a cross-sectional analysis... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 6, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
COVID Vax Injuries Ignored? Obamacare for All Immigrants; Where Ticks Are Found
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Thousands of Americans believe they suffered legitimate injuries from COVID vaccines but say they've been ignored and dismissed. (New York Times)
The Senate Finance... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 6, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
WHO Overturns Dogma on Airborne Disease Spread. The CDC Might Not Act on It.
(MedPage Today) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a report that transforms how the world understands respiratory infections like COVID-19, influenza, and measles.
Motivated by grave missteps in the pandemic, the WHO convened about... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 5, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Cardiologists Float Idea of Unionization Among Ways to Protect Employee Physicians
(MedPage Today) -- LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Even recognized cardiology leaders have not been immune from threats and abuse by their hospital employers, prompting an emotional discussion on worker's rights at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 5, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
What Is Going on With Catheter-Based Pulmonary Embolism Devices in the Real World?
(MedPage Today) -- LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Big Data may provide some answers to the many questions surrounding advanced catheter-based pulmonary embolism (PE) therapies, a buzzing field that otherwise has little evidence from real-world practice... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 5, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
