Monthly Archives: January 2025

‘Nonsensical’ Limits on Supportive Drugs Complicate Cancer Care

November 13, 2024 A young woman with breast cancer was experiencing such intense hot flashes from her triplet chemotherapy regimen, AC-T, that she begged to stop treatment. Her oncologist, Ramy Sedhom, MD, suggested she take oxybutynin, an inexpensive drug for overactive … Continue reading

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Anthem Reverses Course on Anesthesia Time Limits

December 6, 2024 The nation’s second-largest health insurer, Anthem, has rescinded a controversial policy to pay for anesthesia only up to a certain time limit that sparked outrage among anesthesiology professionals and state officials. The company announced November 1 it would deny claims for … Continue reading

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Gun Violence Researchers Are Making Up for 20 Years of Lost Time

August 4, 2021 Depending on who you ask, the end of a 2-decade dry spell in federal funding for gun violence research is a windfall or a pittance. Either way, experts in the field say that renewed funding is especially … Continue reading

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US Supreme Court unlikely to approve assisted suicide

January 18, 1997 Should physicians be allowed to give terminally ill patients lethal doses of medication? This question, more frequently on the minds of people in the US thanks to Jack Kevorkian, came before the Supreme Court on Jan 8. … Continue reading

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How an Indigenous Weaver’s Mastery of Color Infuses Her Tapestries With a Life Force

October 16, 2024 A red tapestry is edged with indigo at the top and bottom and features an undulating line of the same color across the top quarter. The work is a flat rectangle of wool, but the vibrancy of the … Continue reading

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How Golden Peacocks on a Dining Room Wall Destroyed a Longstanding Friendship in Victorian Society

July 19, 2024 When James McNeill Whistler put the final, defiant flourishes upon two golden peacocks on art collector Frederick Leyland’s dining room wall, it was an act that would lead to the end of a long and lucrative friendship, and the … Continue reading

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Psychologists and Psychotropic Prescribing: An Old Debate Heats Up

December 13, 2024 Earlier this year, Utah became the seventh state to allow psychologists with the proper training to prescribe psychotropic medications, giving supporters reason to hope that more states might support expanding this scope of practice. However, the American … Continue reading

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Should the FDA Reconsider Antidepressant Boxed Warnings?

December 23, 2024 For almost two decades, antidepressants have carried boxed warnings linking the medications to an increased risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young people. Paradoxically, and for almost as long, evidence suggests these warnings may have led … Continue reading

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