3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (370+ words) Edward M. Fidalgo, MD On June 24, 2026, the CMS released updated national health expenditure projections that indicate sustained growth in demand for physician care. Their estimate creates yet another cause for concern, given the industry’s uneven progress in retaining physicians. These challenges…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (91+ words) Under ASM’s group‑level assessment of care improvement activities, practices that integrate CCM into their HF workflow gain a meaningful structural advantage. The documentation discipline required for CCM—care plan maintenance, time tracking, and coordination records—also generates the evidence…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (217+ words) I see obesity stigma impacting patients in two ways. The first is that physicians harbor obesity stigma the same way society more broadly does. This can mean that some physicians may be less likely to engage a patient in pharmacologic…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (465+ words) Epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR) are supposed to help your cells grow and divide. When this gene mutates, it can get stuck producing new cells, leading to abnormal cell growth, otherwise known as cancer. It’s a significant risk factor for…...

5+ day, 12+ min ago   (294+ words) Gut Metabolite Tied to Alzheimer’s Risk & Progression A study in Nature Communications links a specific gut bacterial metabolite, imidazole propionate (ImP), with cognitive aging and neurodegeneration among patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The researchers suggest targeting ImP could potentially reduce…...

5+ day, 41+ min ago   (186+ words) “We found that Black participants had a higher frequency of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and opioid abuse compared to White participants,” the authors noted. “This highlights epidemiologic as well as racial discrepancies within the healthcare field suggesting that Black patients…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (241+ words) Identifying obesity using either BMI or waist circumference (WC) criteria, or WC criteria alone, is as accurate as using the more involved diagnostic criteria recently proposed by the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Commission on Obesity, according to a study online…...

5+ day, 12+ min ago   (389+ words) Superior Analgesia in Transradial Coronory Angiography With EMLA+Lidocaine Combo Physician's Weekly Superior Analgesia in Transradial Coronory Angiography With EMLA+Lidocaine Combo Combining an eutectic mixture of local anesthetics (EMLA) patch with local lidocaine infiltration significantly reduces access‑site pain…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (292+ words) When a patient with decision-making capacity declines immediate excision of a lesion on her foot despite strong suspicion of acral melanoma, the appropriate response is to balance the patient’s autonomy with the clinician’s duty to act on the suspected malignancy,…...

5+ day, 45+ min ago   (264+ words) Results revealed that no physical examination findings met the predefined significance level for IRR. Physician’s Weekly spoke with Dr. Florin to gain further insights into the findings. Dr. Florin: We’re living in an era of overuse. If clinicians are limited…...