Business of Medicine
Commentary
Five thoughts on the Damar Hamlin collapse
The cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills footballer Damar Hamlin has led to speculation about commotio cordis and more, but this electrophysiologist...
Feature
ED doctors call private equity staffing practices illegal and seek to ban them
Companies have successfully sidestepped bans on owning medical practices by buying or establishing local staffing groups that are nominally owned...
Livin' on the MDedge
Medical practice gave 8,000 patients cancer for Christmas
Plus: Genes like time-restricted eating and meditations on the U.S. national stress.
News
FDA considers regulating CBD products
The products can have drug-like effects on the body and contain CBD (cannabidiol) and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol).
Feature
Study of beliefs about what causes cancer sparks debate
The authors set out to evaluate “the patterns of beliefs about cancer among people who believed in conspiracies, rejected the COVID-19 vaccine, or...
Opinion
Time for a rest
I asked some docs when they thought this feeling of exhaustion first began. We agreed that the pandemic, doubledemic, tripledemic, backlog have...
Feature
Medicare pay cuts partly averted in massive budget bill
The bill also authorizes new policies regarding accelerated drug approvals.
From the Journals
Problematic alcohol use on the rise among physicians?
Investigators found the prevalence of self-reported problematic alcohol use varied widely, but could affect up to one-third of physicians.
Commentary
A doctor saves a drowning family in a dangerous river
The doctor performed CPR on a boy he found floating, face down, and motionless.
Livin' on the MDedge
All the National Health Service wants for Christmas is tea and biscuits
Plus: Sugar can be healthier and humans can still evolve.
Feature
COVID booster shot poll: People ‘don’t think they need one’
A new poll shows why so few people are willing to get the latest COVID booster.