KevinMD

JULY 1, 2025

I entered medicine like many young physicians do—eager, determined, and drawn to its promise of excellence. The white coat, the respect, the thrill of diagnosing a rare disease or saving a critical life—all of it called to me with undeniable force. I studied relentlessly, passed my boards, published research, and spoke on conference stages. Those Read more… Why compassion—not credentials—defines great doctors originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JULY 1, 2025

I wrote this when I was working for a fairly traditional primary care office, a Federally Qualified Health Center, which did have a somewhat preferential pay rate from Medicare and Medicaid, in part because we offered sliding feee to uninsured patients, in part because we offered a few “enabling services” as the bureaucrats call it. But we weren’t staffed to do public health work for entire populations.

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KevinMD

JULY 1, 2025

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Hospitalist Jasminka Vukanovic-Criley discusses her article, “When grief hits all at once: a morning of heartbreak and love.” Jasminka shares a deeply personal account of a Saturday morning where unexpected news of the passing of two friends, Natasa’s mother Mirjana and Read more… A physician’s reflection on love, loss, and finding meaning in grief [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com

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Boulder Medical Center

JULY 1, 2025

Learn how to prevent altitude sickness while visiting Boulder County. Tips for safe travel at elevation from Boulder Medical Center, your local health partner. The post Stay Healthy at Altitude: Preventing Altitude Sickness in Boulder County and Beyond appeared first on Boulder Medical Center.

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KevinMD

JULY 1, 2025

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) defines mental health, including depression, in terms of pathology or a deviation from normal that is reliably exhibited in observable behaviors. It describes genetics and risk factors, differences in gender, and considers cultural perspectives. Limitations of the DSM diagnostic criteria are acknowledged and recognize that human Read more… Understanding depression beyond biology: the power of therapy and meaning originally appeared

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

Research led by the Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany has found that bile acid diversion in Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) reduces colorectal tumor growth and metastasis independent of weight loss, potentially reshaping future cancer treatment approaches.

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KevinMD

JULY 1, 2025

Across America, physicians worry about malpractice litigation—but what happens when state policies unintentionally create a malpractice litigation magnet? New Mexico offers a troubling case study every health care provider should know about. Between 2019 and 2024, New Mexico lost 248 practicing physicians; for a large state with a small population, this is significant.

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KevinMD

JULY 1, 2025

Is artificial intelligence going to replace physicians? I think the most accurate answer that can be given at this point is “maybe.” Either way, vehemently denying the mere possibility serves no one. If the takeover does happen, being proactive (rather than reactive) and carving a meaningful space for the physician workforce in light of AI Read more… How I learned to stop worrying and love AI originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Today's Hospitalist

JULY 1, 2025

WHEN IT COMES to hospitalist pay by geographic region, who is making the most money—and why? According to data from last year’s Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey, hospitalists in the Midwest reported the highest average income at $383,995. That’s about $38,000—or 10%—higher than average pay for all hospitalists who treat adults.

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

Migraines are a common ailment worldwide, affecting nearly 15% of the global population. At times, they can be debilitating enough to interfere with daily activities. Despite a multitude of treatment options, some migraine sufferers cannot find relief in available drugs. Others experience side effects that prevent the use of certain available migraine medications.

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NPR Health

JULY 1, 2025

When RFK Jr. announced he would cut funds from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, he cited "vaccine safety," referring to a 2017 study from Guinea-Bissau. We asked vaccine researchers to assess the study.

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

New cutting-edge software developed in Melbourne can help uncover how the most common heart tumor in children forms and changes. And the technology has the potential to further our understanding of other childhood diseases, according to a new study.

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NPR Health

JULY 1, 2025

The California legislature wants doctors to get more educated about menopause symptoms and treatment. It's one of a number of states passing menopause-related legislation.

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

A team of researchers led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Weiqiang Chen has developed a miniature device that could transform how blood cancer treatments are tested and tailored for patients.

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KevinMD

JULY 1, 2025

Medicine today is single-encounter oriented with documentation largely tailored for legal purposes rather than medical care. When an encounter ends, the physician must sign off the documentation and no further changes can be made; any corrections require another document that must also be signed off, but this is seldom done. A further problem with current Read more… How fragmented records and poor tracking degrade patient outcomes originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 1, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) legislative representative Megan Verdeja reports on the end of the 2025 legislative session and reflects on recent tragedies: “First, we must acknowledge that it has been over a week since violence took Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, from us and gravely injured Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yevette.

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GSK's autoinjector of Benlysta (belimumab) for subcutaneous injection in patients ≥5 years of age with active lupus nephritis who are receiving standard therapy.

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Dr Chatterjee

JULY 1, 2025

Our posture, our breath, the way our feet strike the ground – all tell the story of how we move through life. But how often do we pay attention to this story - or even rewrite it?

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

University of Tennessee assistant professor Dr. Fei Wang's latest research, published in Research on Aging, uncovers how resilience plays a key role in shaping mental health outcomes among U.S. caregivers—especially distinguishing between those caring for individuals with dementia vs. non-dementia. The study also highlights how perceived gains from caregiving can enhance caregiver well-being.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

Research shows that small extracellular vesicles shed by donor heart cells and circulating T cells provide a precise readout of heart transplant rejection. Although routine endomyocardial biopsy remains the gold standard for grading acute cellular rejection (ACR) after heart transplantation , new research published in Transplantation has shown that small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) shed by donor heart cells and circulating T cells provide a precise, minimally invasive readout of rejection.

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle—specifically, a diet rich in fiber but light on red/processed meat, regular exercise, not smoking, and sticking to a normal weight—is linked to a significantly lower risk of diverticulitis, finds a large long-term study, published online in the journal Gut.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

Dr. Bianca Allison discusses the benefits of person-centered contraceptive care for teens and young adults, as well as barriers that limit its adoption. “Person-centered contraceptive care (PCCC), defined as respectful contraceptive counseling and care that gives a central focus to a patient’s values and goals, is important for reproductive autonomy,” researchers wrote in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

A diet high in foods with the potential to promote low-grade inflammation during pregnancy may raise that child's risk of developing type 1 diabetes, suggests Danish research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

A team of physicians recently reported the successful treatment of refractory autoimmune neuropathies through the infusion of autologous anti-CD19 CAR T-cells. In a first-in-human effort reported in The Lancet Neurology , physicians at Ruhr-University Bochum infused autologous anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells into two patients with treatment-resistant autoimmune neuropathies—a motor variant of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and an anti-neurofila

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

Predicting how molecular changes affect the brain's overall activity is a major challenge in neuroscience. Many deep questions about the brain can only be understood by looking at several layers of brain activity at the same time—with a so-called "multi-scale" approach. For a long time, this had been considered out of reach.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

TUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Breast cancer incidence trends differ by age, even among older women, particularly by race and ethnicity and stage at diagnosis, according to a study published online June 24 in JAMA Network Open. Erica J. Lee Argov, M.P.H., from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York City, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study in which they disaggregated U.S. breast cancer incidence trends among older women (aged 65 to 74,

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

Suriname has become the first Amazonian country to eliminate malaria after 70 years of fighting the mosquito-borne disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Monday.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

TUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The higher a person’s body mass index (BMI), the higher their risk for complications after bariatric surgery, such as higher rates of emergency department visits and readmissions, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), held from June 15 to 19 in Washington, D.C.

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

New research, presented at the ESOT Congress 2025, reveals persistent inequalities in children's access to life-saving kidney transplants across the UK. The study highlights how ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and gender significantly influence a child's likelihood of receiving a transplant.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

TUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — For adults with obesity or overweight, tirzepatide-linked improvements in cardiometabolic risk factors are associated with the degree of weight reduction, according to a study published online June 24 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Bruno Linetzky, M.D., Ph.D., from Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, and colleagues examined changes in cardiometabolic risk factors by degree of weight reduction in a post-hoc analysis of a phase 3 trial involvi

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Jackson Physician Search

JULY 1, 2025

There is perhaps no better testament to the quality and effectiveness of a service or product than repeat customers. With […] The post Repeat Success in Texas: 29-Day Psychiatry Placement appeared first on Jackson Physician Search.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

Research highlights improved lung cancer biomarker testing in North America, though delays, costs, and limited satisfaction persist despite clinician awareness. North American respondents to the 2024 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) global survey said they understood the value of biomarker testing for lung cancer as well as who should be tested, according to a poster presentation at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago.

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

A new study challenges the belief in a universal "pet effect" on human well-being. Using data collected during COVID-19 lockdowns, researchers found no significant change in respondents' well-being when they acquired or lost a pet in their household.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

Nine states—and a dozen more soon—now allow internationally trained physicians to bypass full US residencies, seeking to mitigate rural physician shortages. To address persistent physician shortages in rural America, at least nine states have relaxed rules since 2023 that previously required internationally educated physicians to complete full US residency training before obtaining an unrestricted license.

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Physician's Practice

JULY 1, 2025

Healthcare practitioners face challenges combating health misinformation as patients increasingly rely on the internet for medical advice. Trust and communication are key.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

TUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Digital inhalers may help predict the occurrence of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for patients in an ambulatory setting, according to a study published online in the May issue of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases. M. Bradley Drummond, M.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues examined variation in digital inhaler (ProAir Digihaler; Teva)-measured physiologic and inhaler use

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Medical Xpress

JULY 1, 2025

A UCSF analysis has found that the newer generation of much more effective diabetes medications are reaching only a fraction of the patients who are recommended to take them based on new guidelines.

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