The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) revoked the board certification of Peter McCullough, MD, MPH, a cardiologist who promoted controversial views about COVID-19.
If you have any interest at all in nutrition and have been conscious over the past 5 years or so, you are no doubt aware of a torrent of literature blaming a lot of health woes on ultraprocessed foods.
The patient's check-up begins, as most now do, by sitting down and typing my username and password into a computer. After a kind greeting, I launch into the growing checklist of tasks called quality measures, which now define quality in the eyes of insurance companies who decide on how much doctors get paid for our clinical services.
"Trust me, I'm a doctor." This refrain was typically enough to satisfy payers, administrators, and patients throughout the so-called "golden age of medicine" (1950-1980s), when physicians worked in small practices they owned, set their payment rates, and were highly regarded and rarely scrutinized.
Neurologists have grappled with a cluster of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases in France, where a fondness for a toxic wild mushroom may hold the answer. Well known to skiers and alpinistes, Montchavin also has grabbed the attention of medical researchers as the site of a highly unusual cluster of a devastating neurological disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Disgraced tycoon Greg Lindberg built a network of egg donors and surrogates. Several say he conned them—and that US fertility clinics helped him do it.
A surgeon's stress at the beginning of a procedure might affect clinical outcomes, according to recently published research.
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