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Food is many things. It nourishes our bodies, delights our senses, and gives us something to gather around. Food is also a powerful cultural symbol, reflecting traditions, values, and histories of communities around the world.

A study of 316,443 patients shows that 7.4% of these patients repeated fecal testing rather than proceeding directly to colonoscopy as guidelines recommend, and of those who repeated home tests, over half did not have a colonoscopy within 1 year.

Both financial and physical food insecurity increased the risk, but standard questions didn't capture the latter.

A workshop highlighted the need for better clinician training in assessing the capacity of patients with intellectual disabilities.

A lack of detailed record-keeping in clinics and emergency departments may be getting in the way of reducing the inappropriate use of antibiotics, a pair of new studies by a pair of University of Michigan physicians and their colleagues suggests.

Despite patient beliefs, no impact seen on severity, duration of cough.

Researchers reported that 29% of presenting patients had an antibiotic prescribed at baseline, most commonly amoxicillin-clavulanate, azithromycin, doxycycline, and amoxicillin.

A slew of medical colleges have gone tuition-free in recent years. But experts say it’s not enough to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the medical field. When the Einstein College of Medicine announced in February that a former faculty member donated a historic $1 billion to the institution to eliminate tuition for every student, leaders at the New York medical school lauded the gift’s potential to help diversify the physician workforce.

Monday’s edition of Forbes Daily covers the foreign aid and national security packages approved by the House, and how Boeing’s woes could impact air travel more broadly.

The body for the first time is calling for GLP-1s as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes, but the medications are in short supply.