Why mild and female hemophilia must be recognized

Conditions
September 26, 2025

People living with inherited bleeding disorders (including those with mild and moderate hemophilia and females affected by hemophilia) face persistent unmet needs that are often overlooked in clinical research and treatment guidelines. About twenty percent of mild hemophilia cases experience serious bleeding episodes, challenging current assumptions of their benign course.

Unmet needs

Diagnosis and awareness: Patients with mild and moderate hemophilia often face a delayed or missed diagnosis, leading to unrecognized and …

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Crypto trading’s impact on mental and physical health

Conditions
September 26, 2025

In 2024, centralized cryptocurrency exchanges recorded approximately USD 18.4 trillion in trading volume, with Binance alone accounting for forty percent (~USD 7.7 trillion). While the total number of cryptocurrency holders exceeded 600 million globally, active traders (those engaging in high-frequency or large-scale trading) appear limited to thirty to sixty million monthly users. Epidemiological data indicate these traders skew male (≈sixty-one percent), primarily aged 25 to 34 (thirty-four percent of owners), …

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Why nurse-initiated sepsis protocols are transforming patient care and hospital efficiency [PODCAST]

Podcast
September 25, 2025
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Chief nursing officer Rhonda Collins discusses her article “Nurse-initiated protocols for sepsis: a strategic imperative for patient care and hospital operations.” Rhonda explains why sepsis, the leading cause of death in U.S. …

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The art of pretending in medicine and family

Education
September 25, 2025

“Do you have a key?” my grandma asks me. I hesitate and she repeats herself, “Do you have a key to this place?” She is sitting in a hospital chair behind one of those hospital tables with a tray full of hospital food in front of her. She is practically skin and bones; her shirt and pajama pants are hanging off of her. My mom is sitting on the bed, …

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Digital mental health’s $20 billion blind spot

Tech
September 25, 2025

As a founder in digital mental health, I’ve watched our industry celebrate reaching $8.34 billion in valuation while systematically failing 40 percent of the population. This isn’t just a moral failure, it’s a $20 billion market opportunity that’s being ignored because of cultural blindness. For physicians trying to refer diverse patients to digital mental health resources, the options are frustratingly inadequate. With the total U.S. behavioral health market valued …

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A doctor’s duty on 9/11 in a small town

Physician
September 25, 2025

The vow was not ceremonial. It was lived.

We were in Waverly, Ohio on 9/11, a town that did not make headlines, but held its own kind of gravity. The clinic was open. Kathy was chasing after Robert, age 8, who had darted toward the library at the end of the street, eager to explore its corners before school resumed. She did not call him back. She followed. That was the …

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How India-Pakistan tensions could break America’s generic drug pipeline

Meds
September 25, 2025

With over 270 active drug shortages and growing global instability, the United States must protect itself from a worsening crisis in cancer care. The fragile supply of generic chemotherapy drugs like cisplatin, which is important for treating bladder, lung, and testicular cancer, could collapse if geopolitical tensions between India and Pakistan escalate further. To preserve this diminishing supply, the U.S. must reduce its overreliance on Indian pharmaceutical manufacturing and …

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Why we may be fighting the wrong enemy in heart disease

Conditions
September 25, 2025

I see it every week in my practice: Patients obsessed with their cholesterol numbers. LDL, HDL, triglycerides, the full alphabet soup. They have been trained to believe these numbers hold the keys to life and death.

But here is something I cannot stop thinking about: When you look under the microscope, an atherosclerotic plaque (the thing that clogs arteries and leads to heart attacks) looks an awful lot like a tuberculosis …

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How collective action is shaping physician empowerment and patient care [PODCAST]

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September 24, 2025
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Physician leader Janet A. Jokela discusses its article “Collective action as a path to patient-centered care.” The piece reflects on the evolution of physician unions since the 1980s, beginning with housestaff associations …

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The parallel evolution of computer chess and AI in health care: the inevitable journey to embracing cognitive inferiority

Physician
September 24, 2025

As an academic trauma surgeon and intensive care physician, I have spent decades honing my clinical skills and teaching them to others. The recent milestone reached by Microsoft’s new AI system, the MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), is a reminder that the cognitive frontier of medicine is shifting, not gradually, but in leaps. MAI-DxO reportedly diagnosed complex cases from the New England Journal of Medicine with eighty percent accuracy, compared to …

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How digital health is changing urology

Conditions
September 24, 2025

Most of us have done it: a new symptom pops up, and instead of calling a doctor, we type it into Google. In that moment, the internet feels like the fastest way to get answers. But when it comes to urology, a field where stigma, fear, and embarrassment often hold people back, the flood of conflicting or misleading information online can do more harm than good. That’s where digital health …

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Why emergency medicine is a human rights specialty

Physician
September 24, 2025

Emergency medicine has evolved far beyond what its founders envisioned. Once an afterthought of the health care system, it is now the gateway to care for millions. Every day, our emergency departments serve as the front door of the hospital and, for many, the only door into health care.

This is why I argue that emergency medicine safeguards human rights.

Consider the patient mix of any emergency department: we care for the …

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Why type 1 diabetes screening should be part of back-to-school

Conditions
September 24, 2025

Back-to-school season is one of the busiest times of the year for health care providers (HCPs). Doctors’ offices are full of young patients and families preparing for the year ahead, checking off physical exams, immunization forms, and age-based screenings. These visits are more than just routine; they are critical opportunities to talk about risk factors and catch early signs of health issues. Yet too often, one disease slips through the …

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How cloud-based simulation training is revolutionizing dentistry

Tech
September 24, 2025

Before venturing into medicine, I was focused on aviation, training as a pilot at age 15. To this day, I can still recite every step of the engine-failure sequence from memory. Pilots are trained this way for a reason: They spend hours in simulators practicing under duress, so that when something goes wrong in the real world, they respond instinctively. By the time they are in the cockpit with passengers …

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When recurrent UTIs mask the warning signs of bladder cancer [PODCAST]

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September 23, 2025
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Urologist Fara Bellows discusses her article “When recurrent UTIs might actually be bladder cancer.” Fara shares the story of a 91-year-old patient whose recurrent urinary infections masked an underlying bladder cancer diagnosis, …

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What is guideline creep in medicine?

Conditions
September 23, 2025

I am an internist and, once upon a time, a card-carrying lipidologist. I have spent years watching medicine’s “standards of care” quietly stretch like elastic waistbands. What begins as a targeted therapy for a small group of high-risk patients slowly expands until everyone and their grandmother is expected to be on it. That phenomenon has a name: guideline creep.

How it works

The cycle is simple:

From a 494 MCAT to medical school success

Education
September 23, 2025

The weight of a number

Three years ago, I sat in my car during a work break, hands trembling as I opened my MCAT score report. The number stared back at me: 494. My heart sank. As a husband and father of two young girls, I had poured five months into prep courses, question banks, and late-night study sessions, all while balancing family and work. I walked out of that eight-hour …

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It’s time to operationalize physician wellness

Conditions
September 23, 2025

As a physician provider in my State Physicians Health Program, I have watched brilliant colleagues flicker out. Not because they lacked skill or grit, but because the system treated their humanity like an optional feature. We train physicians to master physiology, not how to metabolize grief. We celebrate heroics, not healing. Then September arrives, Suicide Prevention Month, and we draft statements. The statements are sincere. They are not sufficient. It …

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The science behind my son’s sensory overload

Conditions
September 23, 2025

I have spent decades learning about how bodies and brains work, but nothing has taught me more about complexity than raising my autistic son. He is nine, curious, brilliant, and completely captivated by chemistry. He can explain the structure of an atom with more clarity than most high school students.

But when we step into the real world (classrooms, stores, even family gatherings), sometimes his brain does not get to shine. …

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What patients do not see behind the white coat

Physician
September 23, 2025

“I was excited to see you today because I thought you were going to answer all my questions,” a patient once told me. I smiled, masking the insecurity. “I wish I could.”

The truth is, I often cannot (at least not in a single visit). Medicine is rooted in curiosity and lifelong learning. Patients expect certainty, but doctors live with uncertainty. We know enough to know how much we do not …

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