KevinMD

JULY 11, 2025

The FDA is failing rare disease patients. I’m one of them. I’ve been on elamipretide for three years now. It is the only treatment that has made a meaningful difference in my life with primary mitochondrial myopathy—a degenerative genetic condition that impairs how my cells convert food and oxygen into energy. Mitochondria provide over 90 Read more… FDA delays could end vital treatment for rare disease patients originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

JULY 11, 2025

Family medicine leads the way once again—UCSF has launched the Reproductive Health Hotline (ReproHH), a free and confidential phone line for clinicians with questions about sexual and reproductive health. Staffed by expert UCSF physicians, ReproHH offers on-demand, evidence-based clinical guidance Monday through Friday, 8 AM–4 PM PT / 11 AM–7 PM ET.

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KevinMD

JULY 11, 2025

Brick-and-mortar stores must deal with online competition. Even health clinics face disruption from telemedicine. Yet optometrists have special protection in South Carolina. When a telehealth company invented a safe and effective way for doctors to renew vision prescriptions remotely, political insiders rallied in Columbia to ban the service in South Carolina.

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Family Medicine Austin

JULY 11, 2025

Many people are familiar with the typical allergy culprits like pollen, pet dander, and dust mites. However, there’s a whole world of less obvious allergens that could be affecting your daily life without you even realizing it. These hidden triggers can cause symptoms ranging from mild irritation to severe reactions, making them particularly frustrating to […] The post Hidden Allergens: Identifying and Managing Less Common Allergy Triggers appeared first on Family Medicine Austin.

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Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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KevinMD

JULY 11, 2025

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Physician coach Nicole Perrotte and physician advocate and physical therapist Kim Downey discuss their article, “Love, empathy, and the triangle of exhaustion: Why humanity must come first.” Nicole introduces her powerful framework, the Triangle of Exhaustion, which describes the profound fatigue Read more… Beyond burnout: Understanding the triangle of exhaustion [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.

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PEMBlog

JULY 11, 2025

Introduction Evaluating children with blunt trauma for cervical spine injury (CSI) is a high-stakes and high-variability process. While CSI is rare, the consequences of missed injuries are serious, and so is the harm from overuse of imaging, especially CT. The PECARN CSI prediction rule is a promising tool to standardize care and reduce unnecessary imaging.

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Today's Hospitalist

JULY 11, 2025

Key takeaways: • A pediatric hospitalist helped develop software that tells families and nurses where their patient is in that day’s rounding queue. • With the app, family members can have the hospitalist call them when the team arrives for rounds. • The use of the rounding app has tripled the number of nurses who attend rounds. THE “A-HA” MOMENT for Michael Pitt, MD, came almost 10 years ago when, waiting to get a haircut at Great Clips, he realized that the shop kept sending

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KevinMD

JULY 11, 2025

More than 78 million Americans rely on Medicaid or CHIP for their health care. Yet many still cannot access FDA-approved digital therapeutics because their state does not include them in covered benefits. Prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) are software-based treatments authorized by the FDA. They are delivered through smartphones or tablets and are used to manage Read more… Pharmacists are key to expanding Medicaid access to digital therapeutics originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 11, 2025

Same-day discharge after complex gynecologic oncology surgery is safe and feasible, with success tied to age, BMI, surgery duration, and patients’ location. “[Same-day discharge (SDD)] is well established as safe and cost-effective for benign gynecology indications,” researchers wrote in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. “It has also been associated with high patient satisfaction and acceptance.

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NPR Health

JULY 11, 2025

Large scavengers like vultures and hyenas do an important job in protecting human health. But studies show these creatures are on the decline, allowing for the emergence of disease.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 11, 2025

Optical coherence tomography is beneficial for measuring visual changes and the impact of comorbidities in MS, NMOSD, and other demyelinating disorders. Compared with peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer, ganglion cell layer and inner plexiform layer measurements are more reliable biomarkers for assessing visual prognosis in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to results published in Beyoglu Eye Journal (BEJ).

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Physician's Practice

JULY 11, 2025

Delivering exceptional patient experiences requires fresh enthusiasm, regardless of repetition. Transform ordinary interactions into extraordinary ones with every encounter.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 11, 2025

A mong people with HIV, experiences of interpersonal and community-level violence occur at an “extremely high” rate, according to findings published in AIDS Care. “The 2020 HIV primary care guidelines call for providers to assess for violence experience (including physical and sexual violence, intimate partner violence [IPV]), PTSD, and depression at initial visit and ‘periodic intervals’ thereafter through direct questions or validated screening tools,” Ameeta S.

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Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

JULY 11, 2025

In turbulent times, withdrawing to a quiet place with a good book seems more tempting than ever. Escaping to another story, another place, or another time can seem the best refuge from chaos and uncertainty. Yet escaping in reading can also feel like a guilty pleasure when it seems that something should be done.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 11, 2025

Findings from a recent phase 3b/4 study of upadacitinib support a treat-to-target strategy for dose escalation or reduction based on clinical response. Recent data from a randomized, treat-to-target study show that upadacitinib, a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, offers flexibility in dosing to help patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis safely achieve or maintain disease control.

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NPR Health

JULY 11, 2025

Gen Z is having less sex than previous generations. But why? Well, let's be real. There are a lot of very legitimate reasons why young people are afraid of sex right now, many having to do with recent massive political and cultural changes. Brittany gets into why Gen Z-ers are having less sex with Tobias Hess, contributing writer at Paper magazine and writer of the Gen Zero Substack, and Carter Sherman , reproductive health and justice reporter at The Guardian and author of The Second Coming: Se

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 11, 2025

A recent study shows that cancer survivors’ out-of-pocket costs for necessary medical equipment are sometimes so high that patients don’t purchase them. Out-of-pocket costs for medical equipment can overburden cancer survivors, and some patients do without those necessities, researchers report. “This survey study found that the number of cancer survivors relying on medical equipment has more than doubled in the past 2 decades, and this category now carries the highest proportion of OOP expendit

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 11, 2025

SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists lower cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes, but a recent review suggests that age modifies their benefit. Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists were associated with a reduced risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in patients with type 2 diabetes, but their benefit differed with patient age, according to findings published in JAMA.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 11, 2025

Kelli Reardon undergoes an MRI twice a year to screen for breast cancer, a measure she said she must take to protect her health. Her mother died of the disease at age 48, putting Reardon at higher risk, and Reardon has dense breast tissue, which makes it harder to detect a growth through a mammogram. When Reardon moved from Alabama to North Carolina, she had little choice but to switch from having the screening done at an imaging center to having it done at a hospital.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 11, 2025

As a postpartum doula, Dawn Oliver does her best work in the middle of the night. During a typical shift, she shows up at her clients’ home at 10 p.m. She answers questions they may have about basic infant care and keeps an eye out for signs of postpartum depression. After bedtime, she may feed the baby a bottle or wake the mother to breastfeed.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 11, 2025

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition.

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