Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will live Tweet from the OR as surgeons perform gastric bypass surgery on a 12-year old Texas girl who has had uncontrollable hunger following removal of a brain tumor almost 3 years ago. The girl, Alexis Shapiro, gained a national attention following a story in People.
Physician assistants are in hot demand by hospitals, according to staffing firm.
An oncology patient didn't have 8 months to wait for her daughter's wedding, so the hospital staff brought the wedding to the ICU, as reported in the New York Times.
Also in the Times yesterday, the Well blog tackles the issue of whether today's advances in medicine are generating enough of a benefit to make a difference in patients' outcomes.
A woman whose left leg was partially amputated following the Boston Marathon bombing showed off a new bionic limb by dancing a rumba at TED2014.
American Medical Association President Ardis Hoven, MD, went on C-SPAN this week to talk about how the Affordable Care Act is impacting doctors.
Republicans' Obamacare replacement bill may never see the light of day.
Florbetaben (Neuraceq) became the third PET tracer for beta-amyloid plaques to win FDA approval, following florbetapir (AmyVid) and flutemetamol (Vizamyl).
A new poll shows people want elected officials to try to make the ACA work rather than fail.
A former health official in the Clinton administration wrote in the Huffington Post that we shouldn't be quick to judge medical homes.
The Federal Trade Commission opened a two-day workshop on competition in healthcare Thursday.
Lobbyists want the FDA to hurry up on approving new sunscreen ingredients that could prevent skin cancer.
Health Affairs published a policy brief on the ICD-10 conversion. Check it out here.
Medical marijuana is coming to Alabama.
Meanwhile, debate in Connecticut heats up over a physician-assisted suicide bill. (Subscription required)
The EU's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use had a busy week, recommending nine new drugs for approval.
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