Cover StoryBy our count the AMA adopted 15 policies at its Nov. 6-9 meeting, including a bar on licensing AI as a physician and EHR alerts for downcoded claims.
The FDA approved pimicotinib on Nov. 10 after a 56 percent week-25 response rate, the third CSF-1R inhibitor for TGCT and the only one dosed daily.
Orforglipron cut sleep apnea events 12 to 13 an hour more than placebo in ATTAIN-OSA, against 20 to 24 on tirzepatide's label, largely tracking weight loss.
The VA inspector general's 2026 survey found severe physician shortages at 135 of 139 facilities, with radiology, urology and anesthesiology rising most.
Medline is exiting the bed market after 2 deaths and 16 serious injuries. FDA's Oct. 29 alert says to unplug its beds between adjustments.
A proposed rule due Nov. 2 resets iodine, vitamin A, vitamin D and manganese limits in U.S. infant formula. Comments are due March 2, 2027.
The FDA relabeled Minivelle, Vivelle and Vivelle-Dot on Oct. 30, bringing updated hormone products to nine. The endometrial cancer box still stands.
Voceryq is the second immunotherapy for adult RRP. In 26 evaluable patients, 27 percent needed no surgery for a year. A confirmatory trial is still ahead.
Contracts, payers, and the numbers that decide whether a practice thrives.
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Ambient documentation promises to give physicians their evenings back. The early adopters say the real change is subtler, and the risks are in places most buyers are not looking.
Prior auth is usually discussed as a frustration. Treated as an operations problem, it becomes something a practice can measure, staff for, and push back on.
Yoga sessions and pizza lunches have not moved the numbers. The organizations making progress are fixing the systems that exhaust physicians in the first place.
Since 2022, a Mentor, Ohio, family physician has built a membership practice around access, time and continuity. Now Maple Health is expanding direct primary care to employers.
A rule published Nov. 2 makes PBMs disclose rebates, spread pricing and pharmacy clawbacks to about 131,000 large self-insured plans, and allows audits.
Oct. 29 notices would raise the invalid urine pH cutoff from 9.0 to 9.5 and let MROs order biomarker tests for substitution. Comments are due Dec. 28.
A Utah urologist with 30-plus years in practice says a normal lab result should start the conversation, and medicine should admit when it gets things wrong.
The proposed Common Program Requirements keep the 80-hour week but cut required time off after 24-hour call from 14 hours to 12 and remove two scheduling rules. Comments close Oct. 22; the proposed effective date is July 1, 2028.
CMS announced Oct. 14 that more than $1 million in rural health funds will support Delaware physician recruitment, including an expected 61 housing and relocation awards. Applicants should ask about the five-year commitment.
The agency has opened a nationwide call for voting members and consumer representatives across its advisory panels. Nominations for first consideration are due in November, and self-nominations count.
Non-competes, tail coverage, and productivity formulas. The clauses new attendings most often regret not negotiating.
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