SAN DIEGO – A COVID-19 combination antiviral is the most important new drug primary care physicians have prescribed in recent years – plus it has helped keep many patients out of the hospital, according to a presenter at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians. Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir was granted emergency use […]
The double whammy of pandemic burnout and the aging of baby boomer physicians has, indeed, the makings of some scary headlines. A recent survey by Elsevier Health predicts that up to 75% of healthcare workers will leave the profession by 2025. And a 2020 study conducted by the Association of […]
On July 21 of this year, public health officials announced a case of paralytic polio in a young adult in Rockland County, New York, northwest of New York City—the first reported instance of polio in the US since 2013. Although the case was caused by vaccine-derived poliovirus, the patient was unvaccinated and had not […]
On the same day in March 2020 that President Donald Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency, researchers at the Larry A. Green Center in Virginia launched an ongoing survey of COVID-19’s effects on primary care practices. Over the past 2 years, more than 36 000 survey responses from clinicians across the […]
Can doctors support the boycott of health supplies, including drugs and life-saving treatments, to the Russian citizens? Should they? Recently, the issue was raised in chats and social media, especially here in Europe. The war is part of our daily life now. We are all engaged in helping Ukrainian refugees, […]
Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. Ready or not, the patients were coming. This time last year, physicians around the world prepared, most for the first time in their careers, to treat a new disease—over and over and over again. “There was a terrible sense of foreboding, […]
