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email article The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) spent more than a half a million dollars on its two board of directors meetings in fiscal year 2018-2019. For its winter meeting, the organization flew about 30 board members and ABEM staff -- some accompanied by family members -- to Maui and lodged them for about a week at the luxury Fairmont Kea Lani resort. The total cost was $317,419, according to ABEM budget documents provided to MedPage Today. The board has held its ...

email article Top executives at medical boards frequently make more money than the average practicing physicians they regulate -- and sometimes its a lot more. MedPage Today looked at tax documents for ABMS and its 24 member boards to find executive compensation and compared those figures with data from the American Medical Group Associations latest physician salary survey. The analysis found that for the 19 boards with complete data on both executive and physician pay, 12 of those exec...

email article Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Big Healthcare Companies Paid No Income Taxes Three healthcare entities -- Community Health Systems, Dexcom, and Hologic -- reported receiving federal rebates in 2020 rather than making a net payment of federal corporate income taxes, according to a report published by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). These companies ...

email article On the heels of the cannabidiol (CBD) craze come three other cannabinoids touted as potential treatments for various medical issues: cannabigerol (CBG), cannabinol (CBN), and delta-8 THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). While companies are freely selling products featuring these compounds, especially delta-8, practitioners and industry insiders note little evidence exists regarding any of the three. They especially question delta-8, which has captivated the market over the last year ...

Franco Harris and Rod Woodson both know a bit about overcoming long odds. Harris is famous for a game-winning touchdown in the final seconds of a 1972 National Football League (NFL) playoff game for the Pittsburgh Steelers, when he plucked a deflected pass off his shoe top. Woodson, a defensive back, returned quickly from a major knee injury suffered at age 30 with the Steelers, switched positions, and continued to be a standout. Both are among the most popular athletes in Pittsburgh, a city th...

email article Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Hey Watson: How Do We Save a Floundering AI Program? STAT dissected the disintegration of IBMs Watson Health, which was recently put up for sale after a few years of hype and promises to transform artificial intelligence (AI) within healthcare. Mismanagement, rafts of layoffs and key departures, a culture of fear, and putting marketing ahead ...

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Single doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines led to "substantial" reduction in risk of illness for people 70 and up, though less than previously seen with two doses, according to an unreviewed manuscript posted online by British researchers Monday. While the U.S. focuses on Western companies vaccines, much of the world is quietly relying on shots from China. ( AP) Merck, which dropped out of the COVID...

email article A primary care doctor in New York has been indicted on charges of manslaughter in the second degree after one of his patients died of an opioid overdose, according to the state attorney generals office. Sudipt Deshmukh, MD, allegedly prescribed a toxic mix of opioids and other controlled substances to a patient he knew was suffering from addiction for a decade, prosecutors said. The Pittsford, New York-based doctor was also charged with two counts of reckless endangerment, a...