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Why Do So Many Doctors Embrace Superstitions and Rituals?
“Rituals and superstitions are an acknowledgment that forces external to ourselves exist.”
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Hospitals Cash In on a Private Equity-Backed Trend: Concierge Physician Care
Membership fee-based care could potentially limit access to doctors, but also allow for better recruitment, say experts.
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Clinical Characteristics of Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis Can Predict Therapy Needs Over Time
Patients with unifocal disease at diagnosis may require shorter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug monotherapy courses than those with multifocal...
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Tuberculosis Screening Gaps Persist in New DMARD Users
Substantial patient safety gaps regarding latent tuberculosis screening persist among new users of biologic or targeted synthetic DMARDs,...
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Physicians Received $12 Billion from Drug, Device Makers in Less Than 10 Years
Industry payments appeared to have been little changed by public reporting in the Open Payments database.
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Autoimmunity’s Female Bias and the Mysteries of Xist
Researchers are homing in on a long non-coding RNA, essential to X chromosome inactivation, as the culprit in sex-biased autoimmune diseases like...
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Time Is Money: Should Physicians Be Compensated for EHR Engagement?
“I think it’s reasonable to consider it being reimbursed because we’re taking our time and effort and making decisions to help the patient.”
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Early Biologic Initiation Linked to Rapid Improvement of JIA, Sustained Remission
The findings have implications for insurance rules that require patients to take a conventional DMARD for a minimum period before initiating...
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FDA OKs First-in-Class Agent for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
FDA has granted breakthrough designation for Merck’s sotatercept, an activin signaling inhibitor for treatment of PAH.
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This Could Be Key to Motivating Older Patients to Exercise
Exercising with friends can be the difference in keeping older adults moving, study finds.
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Time Is Money: Should Physicians Be Compensated for EHR Engagement?
Doctors manage EHRs and communicate with patients daily, efforts which increase efficiency and patient satisfaction, yet are often unpaid.