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About 1 in 6 Patients Strike Doctors as Difficult, and Experiments Show It Can Throw Off Diagnoses

Doctors find about 17% of patients difficult, a 2026 review shows, and experiments suggest that friction can quietly make diagnoses less accurate.

Medical Daily · Oct 21

Nearly One in Three New Nurse Practitioners in Four States Now Trained at For-Profit Schools, Up From 2.4%

A Brown-led study found nearly one-third of new nurse practitioners in four states were trained at for-profit schools in 2024, up from 2.4% in 2010.

Medical Daily · Oct 11

Hormone Therapy Becomes First Choice for Hot Flashes and Night Sweats in New American College of Physicians Guideline

A major physicians' group now ranks hormone therapy first for menopausal hot flashes and night sweats. See the backup options and what to ask.

Medical Daily · Oct 7

Most air cleaning devices have not been tested on people − and little is known about their potential harms, new study finds

Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor spread of infections are rarely tested for how well they protect people – and very few studies evaluate their potentially harmful effects. That’s the upshot of a detailed review of nearly 700 studies that we co-authored in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

The Conversation · Aug 20, 2025

Why Americans are drinking more post pandemic and how it is impacting their health

Pandemic-induced alcoholism is showing no signs of decline. A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine has found how the alcohol consumption in the United States continues to be high even after two years of pandemic.

The Times of India · Nov 12, 2024

Risk of this autoimmune condition remains high up to a year post COVID

As per a global study, the risk of autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIRDs) will remain high up to an year of COVID. The findings of the study have been published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The Times of India · Mar 5, 2024

Take Nutrition Studies With a Grain of Salt

The epidemiology of food and drink is a mess.

Reason · Oct 14, 2023

Candida auris fungus: 'Global health threat' spreads to HALF of US - see state-by-state

The black fungus Candida auris, which is rapidly spreading across the US, 'colonises' the patient's skin before finding its way into the blood stream through open wounds and, if this happens there is a 30 to 60 percent mortality rate

Daily Mirror · Mar 31, 2023

Do coffee drinkers actually live longer?

Unlocking the health benefits of your morning cup(s) of joe

Salon · Jul 26, 2022

Merck, Ridgeback Announce New Molnupiravir Data From Late-Stage COVID-19 Study

Merck & Co Inc (NYSE:MRK) and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced that the Annals of Internal Medicine had published additional data from the Phase 3 MOVe-OUT trial of Lagevrio (molnupiravir) in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients at high risk for progressing to severe disease. A lower proportion of molnupiravir-treated participants in the modified intent-to-treat population had an acute care…

Benzinga · Jun 7, 2022