Opinion | ‘It’s Now Health Workers Who Are Suffering’: What We Heard This Week
“It’s now health workers who are suffering.” — Deborah Houry, MD, MPH, the CDC’s chief medical officer, on the rising rates of burnout among healthcare workers. “By 3 days, the majority of children are going to be non-infectious.” — Eran Bendavid, MD, MS, of Stanford University, pinpointing the median duration of infectivity among adolescents with […]
Opinion | ‘Like Playing a Game of Whac-A-Mole’: What We Heard This Week
“It’s like playing a game of Whac-A-Mole.” — Bill Reed, the chief event strategy officer for the American Society of Hematology, on taking down scam websites for medical organizations’ annual meetings. “Just one flush can hold a lot of information.” — Kristine Du, BSc, a lab technician at the University of Calgary, on wastewater-based virus […]
My Son’s Brain Tumor Was Benign. We Thought We Were In The Clear — But We Were Wrong.
The author’s son consulting with his doctor, Eugene Hwang, associate chief of oncology at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, during treatment in 2020. Courtesy of Adina Ciment I saw the mass on my son’s brain from the small booth in the CT room. It didn’t take much to realize that the golf-ball-sized circle on one […]
Opinion | It Shouldn’t Take Another Pandemic to Invest in Digital Health
Saldanha is chief innovation officer of a health system. The public health emergency, declared in 2020 as a result of the COVID pandemic, fostered the creation of waivers and exemptions that allowed for the widespread use of digital health, including telemedicine and remote patient monitoring. With the public health emergency ending earlier this year, many […]
Fauci’s New Gig; Secret World of Penile Enlargement; Malaria Cases Emerge in U.S.
Note that some links may require subscriptions. Former White House Chief Medical Adviser and NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, will join Georgetown University next month as a distinguished professor in the School of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases, and will hold an additional appointment in the university’s McCourt School of Public Policy. E-cigarettes are still […]
WHO: COVID Still An Emergency But Nearing ‘Inflection’ Point
GENEVA (AP) — The coronavirus remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Monday, after a key advisory panel found the pandemic may be nearing an “inflexion point” where higher levels of immunity can lower virus-related deaths. Speaking at the opening of WHO’s annual executive board meeting, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus […]
Finding the solution to obesity: Culinary medicine, emerging evidence-based field, ID’d as early intervention
In the 20 years since Barbara Corkey, PhD, was named Editor in Chief of the journal Obesity, obesity among adults has risen significantly. Data from the National Center for Health Statistics show that one third of U.S. adults 20 years of age and older have obesity. Obesity continues to be a common, serious and costly […]
‘There’s Nothing to Repair’: Emergency Docs on Injuries From Assault Weapons
Last Tuesday, Christopher Colwell, MD, chief of emergency medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, was looking forward to a rare dinner that his entire family of five would be able to attend. He had left his shift at the emergency department and drove straight home, listening to music in the car […]
Eric Balmir Says Pediatric-Ready Drugs Are on the Horizon
Eric Balmir, MS, PharmD, serves as vice president and chief pharmacy officer at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. MedPage Today met with Balmir, who earned his doctorate from the University of Florida in Gainesville, in a conference room inside the D.C. hospital for an hour one afternoon in late July. Joining Balmir was a […]