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Mental Toughness Training Boosts Healthcare Leader Engagement
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (207+ words) Twelve senior healthcare leaders from a single health system participated in six biweekly sessions. Sessions included guided discussion and applied skill practice. Both the Mental Toughness Index and the Employee Engagement Scale were administered at each session. The intervention focused…...
The PA's Role in Eosinophilic Esophagitis
22+ hour, 5+ min ago (461+ words) The Physician Assistant's Point of View: Managing Patients With Eosinophilic Esophagitis Kathleen Ferrell, PA-C, MPAS, from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill discusses the important role a physician assistant (PA) plays when diagnosing, treating, and managing patients with…...
Intestinal Ultrasound Plus Fecal Calprotectin Predicts Crohn's Recurrence
22+ hour, 10+ min ago (239+ words) Maarten Pruijt, MD, from Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, shares results from the INSIGHT study, which evaluated the combination of intestinal ultrasound and fecal calprotectin as a predictor of remission at 6 months for patients who have undergone ileocecal resection…...
Improving Stroke Outcomes in Rural Settings: Expert Q&A
19+ hour, 41+ min ago (271+ words) In this discussion, we interview Nada El Husseini, MD, an associate professor of neurology and director of telestroke services at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, and discuss how to improve stroke care in resource-limited rural areas. Dr. Nada…...
Closing the Gap Between Testing and Treatment in HER2-Low Patients
19+ hour, 45+ min ago (452+ words) We also triaged some of this content, this kind of educational or supportive content selectively to physicians who treat high volumes of patients with metastatic breast cancer and who met other kinds of eligibility criteria for this type of content…...
Stop Diagnosing Asthma and COPD With a Reversibility Test
22+ hour, 5+ min ago (714+ words) The guidelines moved on. Most of us haven't. Should we? TL; DR The 12%/200 m L bronchodilator reversibility rule no longer holds up. A layered model replaces it: post-bronchodilator obstruction confirms disease, etiotype clarifies cause, and treatable traits and endotypes (type…...
Can Quantitative MRI Detect Subclinical Disease Progression in Late-Onset Pompe Disease?
23+ hour, 30+ min ago (196+ words) Enzyme replacement therapy has improved outcomes in late-onset Pompe disease. However, early detection of the disease remains critical because irreversible muscle damage often occurs before overt clinical symptoms develop. Linear mixed-effects models were used to assess longitudinal changes in q…...
Updates in Melanoma From ASCO
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (418+ words) Meredith Mc Kean, MD, MPH, of Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, shares commentary on updates in melanoma presented at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Meredith Mc Kean, MD, MPH: Hi, I am Meredith Mc…...
Updates to Merkel Cell Carcinoma From ASCO
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (350+ words) Meredith Mc Kean, MD, MPH, of Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, shares commentary on updates to Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) presented at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Dr. Mc Kean describes updates from the STAMP,…...
Inside Marit Health's Mission to Empower Physicians
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (160+ words) Doc Wire News: Marit just announced 100, 000 clinicians on the platform in 15 months. What does that number mean to you personally? And so, it's been really inspiring to hear the stories from my users, just finally feeling empowered that they have…...