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• Comparing Your Pay Against Your Peers’: Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2025 US physicians report their 2024 compensation and satisfaction with it. Differences in doctor pay by gender, racial and ethnic group, and medical specialty are revealed.
  Medscape News Slideshows, April 11, 2025
• Targeted Oxygen Support vs Standard Care: No Clear Winner Maintaining a targeted SpO2 of 90%-96% safely reduces oxygen use but does not significantly increase oxygen-free days in critically-ill patients, a randomized trial shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• 4 Things to Know About New Medicare Advantage Rules Prior authorization leeway will be trimmed while health plans get more money under new federal rules for Medicare Advantage plans.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Researchers Link Metabolic Age Clock and COPD The same biological processes that drive aging — such as energy loss — may also contribute to lung diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Canadian Pediatricians Ill Prepared to Treat Drug Overdoses Illicit drug toxicity is an ‘escalating public health emergency’ in Canada that affects adolescents as well as adults.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Keto Diet With SGLT2 Inhibitors May Contribute to DKA
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, April 10, 2025
• Rise: Early Mobility in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit   Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Jeffrey Teitler takes you inside Hartford Hospital’s surgical ICU, where early patient mobilization becomes a powerful fight for recovery, resilience, and quality of life.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 10, 2025
• Novel Blood Thinner Shows Promise in Atrial Fibrillation A recent study reveals that asundexian may reduce the risk for stroke and bleeding in patients with atrial fibrillation and limited prior anticoagulant exposure.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• AAN 2025 AI-Powered Wearable Calms Essential Tremor The Felix NeuroAI wristband delivers tailored and dynamic electrical stimulation to the ulnar, median, and radial nerves throughout the day to relieve essential tremor.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Canadian Medical Groups Urge Participation in April Election Medical groups are pressing their members to keep healthcare a priority for federal officials in an election campaign dominated by concerns about a trade war with the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• ACC 2025 Private Equity Booms in Cardiology The cost of heart disease and high-priced procedures are fueling a surge in private equity–acquired cardiovascular outpatient practices and experts discuss how this is affecting patients.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• Noncitizens Estimated to Make Up 5% of Healthcare Workforce Home healthcare may be especially at risk for severe worker shortage due to Trump’s deportation push.
  Medscape Medical News, April 07, 2025
• ATTD 2025 How Close Is Fully Closed-Loop Automated Insulin Delivery? At the recent ATTD 2025 meeting, participants discussed recent progress and remaining challenges in developing a fully closed-loop automated insulin delivery system.
  Medscape Medical News, April 04, 2025
• Serum Enzyme Ratio Predicts Death in Sepsis-Related Injury A ratio of serum aspartate aminotransferase to alanine aminotransferase levels serves as a strong prognostic tool to stratify the 30-day mortality risk in patients with sepsis-associated liver injury.
  Medscape News UK, April 04, 2025
• How Office Props Improve Patient Outcomes Showing patients props and other visual aids improves recall of information, motivates patients, said doctors who have expanded their ‘black bags.’
  Medscape Medical News, April 04, 2025
• Second Pig Kidney Transplant Success and FDA Trial Approval Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys gain FDA approval.
  Medscape Medical News, April 03, 2025
• ACC 2025 5-Year TAVR, Surgery Outcomes Similar in Low-Risk Patients Patients with severe aortic stenosis had comparable rates of death or disabling stroke, but the lead investigator cautions against an 'irrational' rush to move to younger patients ahead of the data.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2025
• Early CABG After Ticagrelor Safe in Acute Coronary Syndrome Early CABG surgery post-ticagrelor is noninferior to delayed surgery for perioperative bleeding and reduces hospital stay in patients with acute coronary syndrome, a new trial shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2025
• Gene Therapy: Medical Progress Has a Price, Says Ethicist   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses progress in gene therapy research and the need for medical professionals and regulators to tolerate appropriate risk.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 01, 2025