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Vaccines take center stage at federal autism advisory committee
2+ week, 3+ day ago (137+ words) Vaccines took center stage at the federal autism advisory committee meeting Thursday, as committee members...vaccination,” said Laura Cellini, the founder and CEO of Elucidate ASD, a nonprofit pushing for more medical...
At a federal autism advisory committee meeting, members double down on long-debunked theories
2+ week, 3+ day ago (524+ words) . … Vaccines took center stage at a federal autism advisory committee meeting yesterday, with committee...and vaccines has been routinely debunked, but Kennedy reshaped the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee...Which is why nobody on the committee challenged those statements....The committee…...
Medicaid will let states use ‘tiers’ to determine medical frailty
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (529+ words) It came as a small relief to patient advocacy groups and some medical associations that had criticized...“medical frailty” exemptions as confusing and potentially burdensome for patients and medical providers...Tier 2 conditions may indicate medical frailty but require additional data,…...
AI has created a shadow medical system
3+ week, 5+ day ago (173+ words) Headlines about AI replacing doctors have already helped fuel a parallel, industry-driven medical system...-Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School and MIT, and a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow....Marc Succi, M.D., is an associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical…...
Autonomous AI will beat AI-assisted physicians at some medical tasks by 2030
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (422+ words) Emanuel and Abe Butler-Baker have been debating the proper place for AI in medicine with American Medical...The preponderance of studies shows autonomous AI beating unaided physicians at the five cognitive medical...American Medical Association CEO John Whyte, who is…...
I’m a fat medical student. I refuse to let myself be shamed for it
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (494+ words) Before I started medical school, my primary care doctor, a larger-bodied person herself and practitioner...Every Size (HAES), warned me to brace myself for the disgust for fat people that is embedded within medical...Now, as I reach the end…...
Medical aid in dying and the burden of choosing to live
2+ week, 5+ day ago (820+ words) Earlier this month, New York made medical aid in dying available for terminally ill New Yorkers with...Medical aid in dying can create a similar dynamic....When death becomes a medically sanctioned option, remaining alive can begin to look less…...
FDA pilot offers generative AI medical devices a path to patients before they are authorized
1+ week, 4+ day ago (183+ words) STAT As...the Food and Drug Administration wrestles with how to regulate medical devices that rely on generative...
Nonprofit health system raked in $1.1 billion this year from stake in medical billing firm
3+ week, 5+ day ago (187+ words) For Bon Secours Mercy Health, Ensemble Health Partners is the gift that keeps on giving. Seven years after the nonprofit health system sold stakes in its in-house billing and collections company to private equity investors, it still rakes in eye-popping…...
Volunteering at a community clinic gave me an entirely new medical education
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (132+ words) By Benjamin I. Lee Lee is a retired cardiologist who volunteers at a community-based clinic in Maryland. After nearly 40 years in clinical medicine, I retired in 2022. While I expected to feel a sense of freedom, quitting medicine brought me an unexpected…...