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When Your Malpractice Insurer Investigates You: What to Know
When a patient reports a doctor to a state medical board, they may also sue the doctor for monetary damages in civil court.
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The Rise of Sham Peer Reviews
Peer reviews initiated for invalid reasons or against competitors are causing concern.
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The Bad News Behind the Rise in Locum Tenens
The locum tenens paradox is that its successful growth indicates a deteriorating traditional healthcare model.
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Treating Obesity May Reduce Pelvic Organ Prolapse Risk
“We found that waist/height ratio combined with BMI could help differentiate individuals with varying risks of prolapse more accurately.”
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Knowledge Gaps About Obesity Medicine Seen in Primary Care
“The treatment of obesity as a disease, especially with some of the newer medical treatments, is not standard of care and practiced widely.”
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Weight Loss Interventions Improve Key Features of PCOS
“This is the first review to show a clinically significant association in improvement in menstrual frequency with weight loss interventions, an...
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Topiramate Plus Metformin Effective for Weight Loss in PCOS
Topiramate combined with metformin resulted in greater mean weight loss at 3 months and 6 months than placebo plus metformin.
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Patients With IBD More Likely to Develop, or Have Prior, T1D
Patients with IBD had a moderately increased risk for T1D and higher odds of having prior T1D than the general population.
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Coming Soon: A New Disease Definition, ‘Clinical Obesity’
“I think it’ll help explain and move medicine as a whole in a direction to a greater understanding of obesity actually being a disease, how to...
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Men Wanted: New Efforts to Attract Male Nurses
Male nurses number just 12% of the profession working in clinics and hospitals, up from less than 3% in 1970.
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Lawmakers Rush to Stave Off Doctor Pay Cuts as Medicare Finalizes 2025 Rates
“Medicare plans to pay us less while costs go up. You don’t have to be an economist to know that is an unsustainable trend, though one that has...