sábado, 8 de agosto de 2026

Trump Reportedly Plans To Issue New Guidelines For Childhood Vaccines, Autism

Trump Reportedly Plans To Issue New Guidelines For Childhood Vaccines, Autism The Washington Post reported that White House officials are drafting an executive order that would focus on the vaccine schedule, research around autism, and parental choice, according to several people familiar with the matter. In other news: It's been a year since the CDC shooting. https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/administration-news-080726/

When Cost-Saving Software Undermines GP Prescribing Julie Penfold

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/when-cost-saving-software-undermines-gp-prescribing-2026a1000qvv?src= “We have found many of our GPs find the medicines optimisation software to be annoying,” said Dr Grant Ingrams, chief executive of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Medical Committee (LLR LMC). “The messages constantly pop up and try to persuade GPs to change medication to whatever brand formulation is the cheapest that week. But then often within a year or two, GPs are being told to move those patients to yet another version. This creates additional, unfunded work for practices and it can cause distrust between patients and their GPs.”

DOJ Memo Threatens Landmark Disability Rights Protections

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/doj-memo-threatens-landmark-disability-rights-protections-2026a1000qqz?src=

‘Always a Physician’: Retirement’s Biggest Test Isn’t Money Jessica Migala

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/always-physician-retirements-biggest-test-isnt-money-2026a1000qzm When Joseph M. Kaczmarczyk, DO, MPH, MBA, lectures on retirement, he focuses on the image of a Jenga tower. Picture a Jenga tower with one piece sticking out. He then cues the audience to imagine that they’re pulling out that piece with the skill of a surgeon. The next image? A collapsed tower. “I use this to demonstrate what happens to professional identity during retirement,” Kaczmarczyk said.

Launching a Successful YouTube Channel: A Primer for Physicians Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW August 07, 2026

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/launching-successful-youtube-channel-primer-physicians-2026a1000r3c Throughout much of history, physicians served as “gatekeepers” of medical knowledge. Today, before setting foot in a doctor’s office, "most people begin their health journeys online, with either Google — a more traditional search engine — or YouTube, which is most popular for video content,” according to cardiologist Garth Graham, MD, director and global head of healthcare and public health at Google Health and YouTube.

You’re Not Alone: Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2026 Jennifer Nelson +...

https://www.medscape.com/p11/youre-not-alone-medscape-physician-burnout-depression-report-2026a1000ova?ecd=WNL_physrep_260808_MSCPEDIT_physician-burnout_etid8576095&uac=148436CN&impID=8576095 A little under half of full-time US physicians feel burned out at some point. Almost one quarter experience depression. And yet, when Medscape surveyed thousands of doctors across more than 25 specialties, one finding cuts through all the others: Most of those who are struggling try to go it alone.

Medicine and health: a necessary reunion Nikolaos Markou-Pappas* [1] , Paola Fugazzola [2] , Luca Ansaloni [2,3] + +...

https://www.academia.edu/3070-3530/3/2/10.20935/AcadMedHealth8277 Medicine has always known, on some level, that it is not enough. The physician who treats the wound but ignores the conditions that produced it has done something—but not everything. The scientist who maps the pathogen but not the poverty in which it thrives has answered one question while leaving the larger one unasked. This tension—between medicine as it is practised and health as it might be understood—is as old as the discipline itself. What has changed, across the past century, is that the world has progressively formalised its understanding of what health actually requires. It is a tension this journal has decided, with the addition of a single word, to formally acknowledge. https://www.academia.edu/journals/academia-medicine-and-health/articles?source=journal-top-nav