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Demand for COVID vaccines expected to get heated – and fast
Experts in ethics and immunization behavior say they expect attitudes to shift quickly from widespread hesitancy to urgent, even heated demand.
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New residency matching sets record, says NRMP
The MSMP offered 5,734 positions this year, and 5,208 (90.8%) were successfully filled.
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COVID-19 vaccine distribution could start in 2 weeks, Pence says
The FDA is scheduled to make a decision about Pfizer’s emergency-use authorization after an advisory panel meets on Dec. 10.
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Are more female physicians leaving medicine as pandemic surges?
“I have done the academically unfathomable: I am resigning my faculty position without another job lined up.”
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Patient health suffers amid pandemic health care shortages
More than half of clinician respondents to a survey said they saw a decline in patient health because of delayed or inaccessible care.
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Approval of COVID-19 vaccines will change nature of clinical trials
Medical ethicists point out there may be ethical dilemmas involved in continuing clinical trials once a vaccine has been approved.
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COVID-19 cases in children continue to set records
More than 1.18 million U.S. children have been infected by the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Telepsychiatry poised to thrive after the pandemic
“I think the silver lining of COVID is it led telemedicine past the tipping point,” said Dr. Peter Yellowlees.
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A call to make four telehealth provisions permanent
Dr. Peter Yellowlees said he’d like to see permanent changes in licensing, reimbursement, telephony, and prescribing.
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2020 and the telehealth boom
The APA found that 31% of more than 1,000 U.S. adults had used telehealth services.
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AMA takes on vaccine misinformation, physician vaccines, racism
The AMA House of Delegates recently issued multiple new policies on controversial topics that many clinicians face on a regular basis.