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Patient Navigators for Serious Illnesses Can Now Bill Under New Medicare Codes
New Medicare codes will enable physicians to hire navigators to help patients manage serious illnesses such as cancer and heart failure.
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The Battle Against Recurrent UTIs in Welsh Women
A high level of resistance to two recommended antibiotics was observed, suggesting that more frequent urine cultures could better guide antibiotic...
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The New Formula for Stronger, Longer-Lasting Vaccines
Stanford researchers have developed a new vaccine helper that combines two kinds of adjuvants.
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The Next Frontier of Antibiotic Discovery: Inside Your Gut
The researchers hoped to identify peptides that the trillions of microbes use against each other in the fight for limited resources — ideally,...
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Physicians Lament Over Reliance on Relative Value Units: Survey
“The current RVU system encourages unnecessary procedures, hurting patients.”
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PrEP Prescription Pickups Vary With Prescriber Specialty
Patients were less likely to ignore HIV prevention medications when prescribed by a primary care clinician than by other non–infectious disease...
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Predicting RSV’s Role in the Upcoming Winter Respiratory Season
RSV season should be blunted because of the increased use of both the remarkably effective CDC-recommended maternal RSV vaccine and nirsevimab.
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Doctors Are Seeking Professional Coaches More Often. Here’s Why
More and more doctors are using professional coaching to manage life in medicine. The coaches, also physicians, say it might be a cure for burnout...
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Whooping Cough Likely on Pace for a 5-Year High
This year in the United States, more than 10,000 whooping cough cases have been reported, compared with 2815 cases in all of 2023.
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After Rapid Weight Loss, Monitor Antiobesity Drug Dosing
Toxicities from excessive doses can have a range of detrimental effects; examine dosing following rapid weight loss.
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FTC Interim Report on Pharmacy Middlemen Is First Step of Many Needed in Addressing Drug Costs, Access
Madelaine Feldman, MD, has been a vocal PBM critic for years. She sees a recent FTC interim report as evidence of the need for congressional...