After Antibiotics for Appendicitis, Many Need Surgery

(MedPage Today) -- Acute appendicitis treated with antibiotics often ends up being treated with appendectomy, longer-term follow-up of the CODA Collaborative trial showed. In the antibiotics group, 40% had surgery to remove their appendix by 1...

Fauci in the Doghouse; SCOTUS to Review Texas Abortion Law; Public Health's Downfall

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. NIH officials admitted that they funded research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology that enhanced bat coronaviruses, but insisted there were too many genetic differences...

Pfizer Vax for Young Kids Passes the Test Among FDA Staff

(MedPage Today) -- Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine produced an immune response and was safe and effective in young children, but its benefits may be largely dependent on severity of the COVID outbreak, according to FDA briefing documents released...

Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatry Has Promise and Peril

(MedPage Today) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential for forensic psychiatry but can also bring moral hazard, said Richard Cockerill, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in...

'The Vote Language Is Front-Page News': What We Heard This Week

(MedPage Today) -- "The vote language is front-page news and the clinical considerations don't receive much attention." -- Matthew Daley, MD, of Kaiser Permanente Colorado, on ensuring risk mitigation strategies are communicated in language about...

Ageism in Medicine; Burnout in Support Staff

(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to this week's edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the Web to help you learn what's next.Is virtual first a new model for healthcare...

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