David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of temperature and touch receptors, thus unlocking ‘one of the secrets of nature’.
Since Texas enacted the strictest anti-abortion law in the country a month ago, the four Whole Woman’s Health abortion clinics across the state have seen patient visits plummet, some staff quit and recruitment efforts falter.
Judy C. Washington, MD, a mentor of many young academic family physicians, particularly underrepresented-in-medicine physicians, advises her mentees on how to see ahead and plot paths to leadership.
Consumer and insurance groups welcomed a new rule that tilts toward use of median contract rates in settling payment disputes. The AMA seeks delay in implementing the rule, which it says hurts physicians.
The laws would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, restrict access to abortion pills and require abortion providers to ask patients if they would like to view an ultrasound.
Can Texas leave in place the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions and sent women racing to get care beyond the borders of the second-most populous state in the US?
Frank Herd 