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Independent Surgeons Are Disappearing. Here's Why That Matters.

Private practices offer personalized care, expanded access, and physician autonomy

Jan 18, 2025
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MedPAC Members Vote to Recommend Pay Hikes for Physicians and Hospitals

"Safety net" providers who serve low-income Medicare beneficiaries would get an extra pay bump

Jan 17, 2025
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Massachusetts Cuts Residency Requirement for IMGs

IMGs must work 3 years in underserved areas before being fully licensed

Jan 17, 2025
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Oregon Doctors, Nurses Have Been Striking for a Week

Strike lines are "strong and getting stronger," union says

Jan 16, 2025
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Amid H5N1, CDC Wants Faster Influenza A Subtyping for Hospitalized Cases

Clinicians should also ask about animal exposure

Jan 16, 2025
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Surgical Patient's Face Catches Fire; Drug Prices Up; Slime at Boar's Head Plant

Health news and commentary gathered by app staff

Jan 15, 2025
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Prospect Is Another Casualty of Private Equity in Healthcare, Experts Say

"Wealth-extraction entities" have no business in healthcare, one doctor argues

Jan 13, 2025
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Diabetes Med for Kidney Stones? Exercise and Heart Failure

Also in TTHealthWatch: catheter material for PICC lines

Jan 11, 2025
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Future of Lab-Developed Tests Still Taking Shape

Parts of FDA rule on the tests set to take effect in May as opponents await lawsuit outcome

Jan 10, 2025
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Thousands of Providence Health Workers Strike in Oregon

Largest strike involving healthcare workers in the state, first involving physicians

Jan 10, 2025
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Growing 'Medical Freedom' Movement Poses Challenge for Public Health

The notion isn't new, but is "coalescing, now, around this phrase"

Jan 10, 2025
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These Are the Largest Academic Medical Centers in the U.S.

Institutions are ranked by the number of interns and residents

Jan 09, 2025
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Patient Care Deteriorates After Private Equity Acquisition of Hospitals

Study supports other research showing worse outcomes after private equity acquisition

Jan 09, 2025
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Operative Vaginal Delivery Riskier at Lower Volume Hospitals

Hospital experience is connected to a range of obstetric and neonatal outcomes

Jan 09, 2025
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