U.S. residency programs in emergency medicine have no trouble attracting, training and preparing the next generation of outstanding ER physicians. The problem is that a paltry percentage take their clinical skills where the need is greatest. 

One of the nastiest aspects of the COVID crisis is its possible setting of the stage for one or more pandemics to follow. The risk of such a scenario is heightened by the rate at which moms and dads are avoiding the pediatrician for routine vaccinations.

Health and Human Services will award up to five grants as part of the program, with a Sept. 1 application deadline. 

Among 14 common types of protective face mask is one that may do more harm than good.

CEOs of hospitals and health systems may find they need to compete more aggressively to hold onto their CMOs, as industries that never employed medical officers in the past are needing them now.

Additional interpretations often improve diagnostic accuracy and patient care, but not when they fall by the wayside, authors explained in AJR.

Some researchers have shared concerns about how statin use may impact COVID-19 patients, but a new meta-analysis suggests there is a significant benefit. 

Industry researchers in medical AI have demonstrated a “causal reasoning” algorithm whose diagnostic accuracy would place it among the top 25% of primary care doctors in the U.K. 

It has a ways to go in the field, but AI promises to modernize plastic surgery along both its main branches, cosmetic and reconstructive.