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Adults with limited English skills receive far less health care than do those proficient in English, according to a new study in Health Affairs. Jessica Himmelstein, MD, a Harvard research fellow and primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Mass., led a study of more than 120,000 adults published July 6, 2021. The

Welcome to this week’s edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the web to help you learn what’s next. Lisa Grabl is president of the locum tenens division of CompHealth, the nation’s largest locum tenens physician staffing company and a leader in permanent and temporary allied healthcare

Pandemic or no pandemic, it is always important to take great care of your health. Aside from protecting yourself from COVID-19, this is to also ward off other illnesses, especially during flu season this 2021. One way to do this is by taking the best immune system boosters available. Do note that supplements do not cure

A standard medical face mask is more effective at preventing the wearer from inhaling aerosols without causing substantial breathing resistance than various cloth, medical, or respirator masks, new research shows. “Medical face masks with good filtration efficacies can provide even better protective effects than KN95 respirators,” write Christian Sterr, MD, from Philipps University of Marburg

The increasing prevalence of new coronavirus variants is raising questions about how well protected those who’ve already had their COVID-19 shots are against evolving forms of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Here, microbiology and infectious disease specialist William Petri of the University of Virginia answers some common questions about COVID-19 booster shots. 1. What is a booster

Dupilumab (Dupixent, Sanofi and Regeneron) significantly reduced exacerbations compared with placebo in children ages 6-11 years who had moderate-to-severe asthma in a phase 3 trial. A fully human monoclonal antibody, dupilumab also improved lung function vs placebo by week 12, an improvement that lasted the length of the 52-week trial. Dupilumab previously had been shown

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in Chile,

By early July 2021, nearly two-thirds of all U.S. residents 12 years and older had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine; 55% were fully vaccinated. But uptake varies drastically by region – and it is lower on average among non-white people. Many blame the relatively lower vaccination rates in communities of color

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. School may be out for summer, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is still in session. The agency released updated guidance July 9 that promotes in-person learning when K-12 students return in the fall, and relaxed mask recommendations

Different kinds of neuropsychiatric (NP) events in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have substantial variability in their occurrence, resolution, and recurrence over time, as well as in their predictors, according to new research from a large, prospective, international, inception cohort study. Because “multiple NP events due to different causes may present concurrently in individual

Amid allegations of racial and gender discrimination at Tulane University’s School of Medicine, the school saw its accreditation status for graduate medical education programs put on probation last week, according to a letter from the university. Lee Hamm, MD, dean of the university’s School of Medicine, announced on July 3 that the institution was put

More good tidings to gladden the hearts of men who have reached the half century mark: Swapping traditional prostate biopsies for MRI-targeted biopsies with a new prostate cancer risk score can cut the number of unnecessary biopsies in half while still detecting clinically significant cancers. The findings from the STHLM3MRI study, a large randomized trial,

We all know this, eating less and exercising more is the best way to lose weight and keep it off. Exercise combined with healthy living and diet helps you achieve a slimmer body and prevents you from acquiring any health risks. Developing healthy habits can even help you get better sleep, boost your energy and so much more. Still, anyone who

Intravenous iron therapy was predicted to be highly cost-effective or even cost-saving when used in high-risk, iron-deficient patients with heart failure (HF) in each of four different countries with different healthcare payment systems, in an analysis based on outcomes in the randomized AFFIRM-AHF trial. Gains in quality-adjusted life-years (QALY) associated with IV iron therapy were

When I wrote the essay “We Burn Out, We Break, We Die,” it was in the wake of the death by suicide of my friend and fellow medical student. While his death seemed to permeate every corner of my medical school, I took the news especially hard because I understood what it felt like to

MANCHESTER—Leading oncologist Professor Justin Stebbing has told a medical tribunal he provided “exceptional standards of care” to a cancer patient he’s accused of giving chemotherapy when there was no evidence it would bring any benefit. Prof Stebbing, a cancer medicine and oncology professor at Imperial College London with a private practice in Harley Street, claimed

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Israeli officials are reporting a 30% decrease in the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and mild to moderate cases of COVID-19. At the same time, protection against hospitalization and severe illness remains robust. The country’s Ministry of

Yet another SARS-CoV-2 variant is making headlines, but experts reassure that early evidence suggests it can’t substantially evade vaccines — though it does have potential to become a variant of concern, one expert said. The Lambda (C.37) variant, first identified in Peru in December 2020, now accounts for the majority of infections there, and is

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Lottery-based incentives such as cash and prizes don’t appear to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates, according to a new research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In particular, researchers found that Ohio’s “Vax-a-Million” campaign wasn’t associated with an

Advanced age by itself can be a reason physicians hold back on prescribing mainstay medications, or not uptitrate them per guidelines, to their older patients with heart failure (HF) and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), suggests a large cohort study. About 80% of patients aged 80 years or older were prescribed renin-angiotensin-system inhibitors (RASi) in a

Despite less clinical care during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients with diabetes held tight on their glucose control, a nationwide study suggested. In adjusted models, there was a relative 2.6% decline in the proportion of diabetes patients who had at least one outpatient clinical visit — including in-person and telemedicine visits — during the entire pandemic

Adults with sickle cell disease who experienced a vaso-occlusive crisis had substantially better outcomes when they were treated at specialty infusion centers than those treated in emergency departments (EDs), a prospective observational study shows. At infusion centers, patients received pain medication an average of 70 minutes faster compared with patients treated in EDs (62 vs

Reusable water bottles have become increasingly popular. It’s a convenient way to keep us hydrated while also being good to the environment. Taking it up a notch is LARQ, a popular brand of self-cleaning reusable water bottles. Live More Sustainably LARQ Bottle PureVis, LARQ’s self-cleaning bottle. livelarq.com As waste management continues to be a growing

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. As Americans celebrated the Fourth of July, President Joe Biden said the U.S. was emerging from the darkness of the pandemic but not fully clear, according to The New York Times. He noted that COVID-19 variants still remain a threat, and

“It’s like launching a rocket ship in the hope of just getting into orbit, but making it all the way to the moon on the first try.” — Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, describing an intravenous CRISPR infusion that lowered levels of a disease-causing protein in vivo for the first time

Psoriasis affects over 7.5 million adults in the United States, with prevalence nearly twice as high among Whites as non-Whites, according to an analysis of national survey data from 2011 to 2014. “The adult prevalence rate of 3.0% continues to place psoriasis as one of the most common immune-mediated diseases affecting adults” in the United

WASHINGTON—Antacids improved blood sugar control in people with diabetes but had no effect on reducing the risk of diabetes in the general population, according to a new meta-analysis published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Type 2 diabetes is a global public health concern affecting almost 10 percent of people worldwide.

Welcome to this week’s edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the web to help you learn what’s next. Lisa Grabl is president of the locum tenens division of CompHealth, the nation’s largest locum tenens physician staffing company and a leader in permanent and temporary allied healthcare