July 23, 2025

FDA Grants Breakthrough Status to Melanoma Test

The FDA has granted Breakthrough Device designation to Castle Biosciences’ DecisionDx-Melanoma test, a gene expression profile assay designed to improve risk stratification and personalized care in cutaneous melanoma.

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April 29, 2025

What Surgeons Should Say During Awake Surgery

Study identifies specific terminology and communication strategies to enhance patient experience in wide-awake hand procedures

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May 28, 2025

Kennedy Proposes NIH Publishing Ban

"We're probably going to stop publishing in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and those other journals because they're all corrupt."

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April 29, 2025

Surgical Management of Foreign Body Ingestion in Adults: Case Series

Diagnosis relies heavily on a careful history, including the nature of the ingested material, and complementary imaging studies.

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May 09, 2025

Upper Face Filler Techniques Lack Standardization, Review

A new scoping review revealed significant variation in hyaluronic acid filler injection techniques for the facial upper third.

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May 16, 2025

Long-Term Data Support BCT for BRCA-Mutated Breast Cancer

Researchers found that breast-conserving treatment provided long-term survival outcomes comparable to mastectomy in patients with breast cancer and BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic variants.

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June 30, 2025

Can Typos Change a Diagnosis?

Large language models used in clinical decision-making may offer different treatment recommendations depending on how a patient writes their message—even when the medical facts remain unchanged.

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May 15, 2025

Assistant Professor Salary Gaps Persist Nationwide

Persistent salary disparities by gender, race, and ethnicity were identified among more than 45,000 U.S. assistant professors, with underrepresented in medicine women learning the least across all specialties.

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May 14, 2025

Leading Cause of Death in Residents, Study

Study shows high suicide rates during training transitions, with pathology residents facing the highest suicide risk compared with other specialties.

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