Mixed Topics
Feature
Ohio bill bans ‘co-pay accumulator’ practice by insurers
Co-pay accumulators, which prevent rebates and coupons from counting toward a patient’s deductible, can put the cost of treatments out of reach...
From the Journals
Performance anxiety highly common among surgeons
“I wish we talked about it more and shared our insecurities. Most of my colleagues pretend they are living gods.”
Perspectives
On the receiving end of care
Hospitals could do so much better by improving communications with patients and by viewing them as customers whose loyalty they must earn and will...
Feature
‘Eye-opening’ experience on the other side of the hospital bed
“I spent many hours last week observing the practice of medicine while sitting at my mom’s hospital bedside and was reminded of some important...
Latest News
U.S. hospitals warned about potential Russian cyberattacks
The Russian military intelligence service is extremely capable and dangerous, according to one expert, who doubts that many healthcare systems in...
News
Fingers take the fight to COVID-19
Plus: The interesting man in his flying machine, giving food as medicine some bite, and one benefit of being rude or stubborn.
News
Boring is good. Boring is right. Boring is … interesting
Plus: A fungal fashion statement, worm-on-a-chip diagnosis, and mosquito olfaction.
Feature
Hands trained for surgery now on machine gun: Kyiv oncologist
In the city of Mariupol, “doctors and patients have been taken hostage,” one surgical oncologist said, used by Russian forces as a human shield....
News
Is cancer testing going to the dogs? Nope, ants
Plus: Surgeon tweets from work, words show their power, and the Senate springs forward without falling back.
Feature
Death of pig heart transplant patient is more a beginning than an end
The landmark case will have much to teach; still, it “turns back the clock” to a time when immunosuppression was especially intense “because we...
Commentary
Pharma should stop doing business in Russia, says ethicist
There can be no collusion with war criminals. There can be no denial of the inextricable link between medicine, science, and politics.