Hospital Interns Spend Only 13.4 Percent of Time in Patient Rooms
Real-time locating systems may be used to improve the training experience, authors say
Half of Hospitals Have Implemented No Price Transparency
Only 5.7 percent of hospitals meet both requirements -- a machine-readable file for required price types and an accessible display for at least 300 shoppable items
New Drug Launch Prices Increasing Exponentially Each Year
Findings among newly marketed brand-name prescription drugs launched in 2008 to 2021
Additional Biopsies After CRC Biopsy Not Tied to Metachronous CRC
Biopsy of nontumor sites after initial colorectal cancer biopsy not linked to risk for metachronous cancer
Food Allergy Tied to Lower Risk for SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Asthma does not raise risk for infection or household transmission
Bariatric Surgery Cuts Obesity-Related Cancer Incidence
Findings seen in large study of obese adults with and without surgery, followed for 10 years
Actions Against Physician Licenses Due to Substance Use Down
However, despite declines from 2004 to 2020, substance use-related actions remain much higher than actions for physical, psychological impairment
Bidirectional Risk Seen for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Depression
Increased risk also seen among unaffected siblings of patients with either depression or IBD
ASCO: ctDNA Analysis Guides Treatment of Stage II Colon Cancer
ctDNA-guided approach to determining the need for adjuvant therapy noninferior to standard management for recurrence-free survival
Radiation Segmentectomy Efficacious for Unresectable Liver Cancer
All patients had initial objective response and 90 percent had sustained complete response; few patients had high-grade adverse events
