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ELKO, Nev. — Anger, devastation, and concern for her patients washed over Dr. Bridget Martinez as she learned that her residency training program in rural northeastern Nevada would be shuttered. The doctor in training remembered telling one of her patients that, come July of this year, she would no longer be her physician. Martinez had

Infectious Disease > General Infectious Disease — Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by MedPage Today staff by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today April 12, 2023 Note that some links may require subscriptions. A fatal case of avian influenza (H3N8) in a human has been identified in China, the World Health

Skip to main content MH Illustration/Getty Images Companies that use ethylene oxide to sterilize medical products would have to significantly reduce employee and community exposure to the carcinogenic chemical under a proposed rule the Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday. Ethylene oxide, or EtO, is a colorless gas used to sterilize medical equipment such as syringes

Opinion > Second Opinions — Evidence shows it does not treat PTSD in the long-term, and may worsen symptoms by Libby Stuyt, MD April 10, 2023 A growing number of states have identified post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as an approved condition for medical marijuana. According to Colorado's Medical Marijuana Registry, there are 70,533 patients as

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Skip to main content CHICAGO — The first openly gay person to lead the American Medical Association takes the reins at a fractious time for U.S. healthcare. Transgender patients and those seeking abortion care face restrictions in many places. The medical judgment of physicians is being overridden by state laws. Disinformation is rampant. And the nation

Opinion > The Activist Psychiatrist — We can and must do better by Amanda J. Calhoun, MD, MPH April 9, 2023 My Black patient spent most of February in a locked inpatient psychiatric ward. Well, he wasn't my patient anymore, but he had been at one time. As a resident working with hospitalized children with

Thirty years ago, Blue Mountain Clinic Director Willa Craig stood in front of the sagging roof and broken windows of an abortion clinic that an arsonist had burned down early that morning in Missoula, Montana. “This morning, Missoula, Montana, learned that there is no place in America that is safe from hateful, misguided groups,” she