Texas Emergency Medicine Residency Program Won’t Shut Down
A Texas emergency medicine residency program was saved from being permanently closed this month after a groundswell of support from residents, physicians, and local politicians, according to reports. On October 12, Christus Spohn Shoreline Hospital administrators informed the residents and faculty of the Corpus Christi Emergency Medicine Residency Program that it would be discontinued in […]
What Killed the First Gender-Affirming Surgery Clinic in the U.S.?
When the Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital closed in 1979, there were still about 20 university-based clinics in the U.S. that provided gender-affirming surgery. By the mid-1990s, only two or three remained. Despite the hospital attributing the closure of GIC to a 1979 study suggesting unsatisfactory long-term outcomes among 50 applicants […]
Finally, A Foundational Heart Failure Drug That Works Across the Spectrum of EF
BARCELONA — With a major win in DELIVER, dapagliflozin (Farxiga) closed the gap on the types of heart failure (HF) proven to be treated safely by SGLT2 inhibition. People with HF with preserved (HFpEF) and mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF) alike had a reduced risk of cardiovascular (CV) death and worsening HF over a median […]
More Than a Nursing Shortage: A ‘Skills Gap’, Too
During the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have closed beds, shut down elective surgeries, and called in federal assistance due to a shortage of a critical healthcare resource — nurses. Shortages of nurses and other healthcare workers are plaguing hospitals throughout the U.S., especially those in COVID hotspots. Mississippi has 2,000 fewer nurses […]