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Q&A: New JAMA resource shows ‘labor of love’ behind clinical trials

Andrew (Drew) Rhoades; Alison J, Huang, MD, MPhil, MAS — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:55:40 Z

JAMA Network announced a new resource called JAMA+ Trials that is “designed to elevate the visibility, accessibility and understanding of trusted clinical trial research across medicine,” according to a press release.
The platform features a searchable collection of recent trials across the JAMA Network’s 13 journals, a rotating set of trial themes designed to stimulate conversation and debate about trials, as well as tailored educational resources on trial design, conduct and reporting.
Alison J. Huang, MD, MPhil, MAS, a clinical epidemiologist and trialist who has led

Healio partners with NPACE to integrate AI in continuing education

Andrew (Drew) Rhoades — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:40:36 Z

Healio has partnered with the Nurse Practitioner Associates for Continuing Education, or NPACE, to integrate its Healio AI tool into NPACE’s in-person and on-demand CME.
“NPACE is excited to further our collaboration with Healio and the new Healio AI tool,” NPACE Chief Operating Officer Josh Plotkin said in a press release. “AI is quickly ascending to the forefront of being used by advanced practice providers. Healio’s AI tool, being predicated on medical research, studies and professional insights, will enhance professional development and learning across NPACE platforms.”
Healio AI is a

RFK Jr. fires USPSTF leaders

Andrew (Drew) Rhoades — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:23:27 Z

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired the chair and vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, according to letters obtained by Healio.
The vice chair was Esa M. Davis, MD, MPH, FAAFP, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the chair was John B. Wong, MD, MACP, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.
According to the task force’s website, Davis was appointed vice chair in March 2025. She previously served as a member from January 2021 to December 2024. Wong was appointed chair in March. He had served in the task force since

Experts question US response to hantavirus outbreak

Anthony Stitt — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:21:33 Z

Infectious disease experts on Thursday criticized U.S. health officials’ response to the hantavirus outbreak that killed three passengers on a cruise ship.
“I’m not overstating this, it is a travesty,” Infectious Diseases Society of America CEO Jeanne M. Marrazzo, MD, MPH, said in an IDSA press briefing.
According to WHO, three people aboard the MV Hondius have died and at least eight have been sickened by Andes virus, a type of hantavirus found in South America that can be transmitted person to person, but usually only through close contact, the CDC notes. There were 17 Americans onboard among

Hooked on ID with Lior Cohen-Yatziv, MD

Lior Cohen-Yatziv, MD — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:04:52 Z

Medicine is full of remarkable specialties, but for me infectious diseases is one of the most intellectually demanding and unpredictable among them, and that’s exactly why I love it.
ID has a way of showing up everywhere. At some point, almost every specialty hits a question that traces back to a bug, a host response or an antibiotic decision. You cannot be a good ID physician without understanding pharmacology, microbiology, immunology and the nuanced physiology of every organ system. Every consult is a lesson in critical thinking.
And just when you think you’ve started to master

Hooked on ID with Lior Cohen-Yatziv, MD

Lior Cohen-Yatziv, MD — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:04:52 Z

Poll: Public trusts career scientists over federal health officials

Anthony Stitt — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:26:42 Z

Americans have a greater trust in the scientists working in federal health agencies than the Trump administration-appointed leaders running them, according to a poll.
The poll from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania showed that 67% of Americans expressed confidence in career scientists working at federal health agencies, compared with their 43% confidence in agency leaders.
“The findings are not surprising,” said Healio | Infectious Disease News Editorial Board Member J. Glenn Morris Jr., MD, MPH&TM, professor and former director of the Emerging Pathogens

Poll: Public trusts career scientists over federal health officials

Anthony Stitt — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:26:42 Z

Poll: Public trusts career scientists over federal health officials

Anthony Stitt — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:26:42 Z

Poll: Public trusts career scientists over federal health officials

Anthony Stitt — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:26:42 Z

Medical groups double down on lobbying amid health policy shakeups

Andrew (Drew) Rhoades — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:32:36 Z

Major health care policy changes under the Trump administration have driven some professional medical organizations to take different approaches to their advocacy strategies.
During President Donald J. Trump’s second term, the administration has launched initiatives aimed at improving nutrition and reducing chronic diseases in youth — issues that many experts say need to be addressed. But many policy changes, like reducing the number of recommended vaccines for children, expiring health insurance subsidies, Medicaid cuts and student loan limits under H.R. 1, or the “One Big

Medical schools pledge to increase nutrition education

Andrew (Drew) Rhoades — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:19:08 Z

HHS announced new voluntary commitments to increase nutrition education within medical schools.
According to an agency press release, 53 medical schools across 31 states will provide at least 40 hours of nutrition education, “or implement a 40-hour competency equivalent,” beginning in the fall of 2026.
HHS will also allocate $5 million through an NIH nutrition education challenge “to support medical schools, nursing, residency, nutrition science and dietician programs that integrate nutrition education into their curricula,” the release said.
The agency said that this funding will help programs

In 25 years as an emergency doctor, I saw patients say ‘thank you’ in these six ways

Resa E. Lewiss, MD — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:16:33 Z

An elderly patient came to the ED after slipping on the ice. I knew her ankle was broken since the lower extremity was swollen and deformed.
Nonetheless, she smiled, her energy was appreciative, and she thanked me each time I circled back and updated her. At discharge, I handed her the paperwork, smiled and said, “cool shoes.” Months later, I noticed a package in my hospital mail slot: she sent a similar pair of shoes with a thank-you note.
As an emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine doctor, I practice and speak about the health benefits of gratitude, or being thankful and appreciative,

Telehealth extensions, pharmacy benefit manager reform: What’s in the new spending package

Andrew (Drew) Rhoades — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:38:42 Z

Congress passed a bipartisan spending package on Feb. 3 that carries ramifications for telehealth, pharmacy benefit managers, funding for physicians’ mental health resources and more.
The five-bill, $1.2 trillion spending package was signed into law by President Donald J. Trump, ending a partial 3-day government shutdown.
According to the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), among the telehealth provisions extended through the “minibus” include:
“This is a significant and hard-earned win for the telehealth community and for ATA and ATA Action,” Alexis Apple, ATA vice president of public

Virtual reality can make needles less scary

Shreenik Kundu, MD; Robert Glatter, MD, FACEP, FAAEM — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:51:22 Z

Fear of needles is one of health care’s most common, and most ignored, barriers.
Millions of people experience anxiety or panic attacks at just the sight of a syringe. Some avoid routine vaccinations or postpone blood tests or IV treatments until symptoms worsen. Many who intend to donate blood never show up, held back by a fear they rarely admit aloud.
This is not only a personal struggle. It is a public health problem, too. Surveys show that young adults often cite needle anxiety as the top reason they do not donate blood. This extends to care in hospitals daily: the child who must be

Trump urges Congress to enact ‘Great Healthcare Plan’

Andrew (Drew) Rhoades — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:35:12 Z

President Donald J. Trump announced a health care framework that he said will lower drug prices and insurance premiums and hold insurance companies accountable by improving price transparency.
He called on Congress to pass the framework into law “without delay.”
“Instead of putting the needs of big corporations and special interests first, our plan finally puts you first and puts more money in your pocket,” Trump said in a video. “It’s called the ‘Great Healthcare’ because it’s great health care at a lower price.”
According to a White House fact sheet, the “Great Healthcare Plan” proposes

Try to get outside and move every day

Resa E. Lewiss, MD; Melissa D. Leber, MD — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:05:30 Z

The U.S. physical activity guidelines recommend that healthy adults, including elderly, get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise or 75 minutes of high-intensity aerobic exercise weekly.
These guidelines, endorsed by organizations like the American Heart Association, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the American Board of Sports Medicine, further recommend twice weekly resistance training, such as muscle strengthening, as well as flexibility and gait training.
I recently caught up with Melissa Leber, MD, director of Player Medical Services for the U.S. Open.

Q&A: Medicare PFS will benefit primary care, but budget neutrality is ‘the bigger issue’

Andrew (Drew) Rhoades; Shari M. Erickson, MPH — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:43:29 Z

Several changes in the 2026 Medicare Physicians Fee Schedule, or PFS, will help to better support primary, preventive and comprehensive health care, according to several organizations.
For example, the PFS introduces an efficiency adjustment that ACP said “will help account for how clinical practices and resource utilization patterns evolve and better align payments with those changes.”
The Primary Care Collaborative similarly applauded practice expense reimbursement reform, as well as improvements to the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program and Advanced Primary Care Management

Healio AI: A physician-first tool built to ‘never settle’

Joan-Marie Stiglich, ELS — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:56:24 Z

I am here to tell you something that we do not discuss outside the walls of Healio and the parent company, The Wyanoke Group. It is our “secret sauce” to what we do and how we built Healio AI.
Healio AI launched on Nov. 4. Another generative AI tool, you say? Yes, Healio had the audacity to build a generative AI tool when behemoths already exist for both the general public and health care, the arena that Healio serves.
Healio’s secret sauce for Healio AI is a mantra we created in 2010 and guides everything we create. In 2010, we began the ideation of “one big site” that would later be named

AOA challenges ABIM policy that limits opportunities for osteopathic physicians

Andrew (Drew) Rhoades; Emma Bascom — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:17:46 Z

The American Osteopathic Association announced it has filed a lawsuit challenging an American Board of Internal Medicine policy which limits opportunities for internal medicine physicians and residents.
According to the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the policy blocks qualified residents and fellows from taking the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) board certification exams “not because of their competence” but due to their program directors being certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine (AOBIM) instead of the ABIM.
An AOA press release said the