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Humana, athenahealth collaborate on expanded electronic prior authorizations nationwide

If your practice bills Humana through athenahealth, prior auth requests move into the EHR workflow, cutting phone and fax time before procedures and imaging.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 2d

Intraoperative Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Imaging in Primary Breast Angiosarcoma: A Report of a Feasibility Case

For rare angiosarcoma with no standard margin tool, ICG fluorescence may help surgeons see residual tumour intraoperatively, though this is a single feasibility case.

General Surgery · Cureus · 2d

Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome in Children: A Case Series

Perioral pigmentation in a child warrants GI polyp surveillance for STK11-related PJS, since intussusception and later malignancy risk drive early screening decisions.

Paediatrics · Cureus · 2d

Diabetes Risk and Depression Among Adults Without Known Diabetes: A Community-Based Mixed-Methods Study in Rural Puducherry, India

When you screen for diabetes risk in rural patients, treat depressive symptoms as part of the same picture rather than a separate referral.

General Medicine · Cureus · 2d

Growth, Specialty Distribution, and Regulatory Pathways of Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices Authorized in the United States From 1995 to 2026: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

Most AI devices reaching clinics are radiology tools cleared via the 510(k) route, so expect the imaging AI you are offered to have predicate-based, not de novo, evidence behind it.

Radiology · Cureus · 2d

Max oncology inpatient revenue falls after chemotherapy drug discontinuation for CGHS patients

CGHS rate revisions and chemo discontinuation are shifting where your CGHS oncology patients can be treated — check referral pathways and out-of-pocket costs before the next admission.

Oncology · ETHealthworld · 2d

Hinge Health revenue jumps 52% in Q3 as it expands beyond MSK, eyes hardware acquisitions

Digital MSK platforms your patients already use are adding migraine and GI programs, so expect employer-driven referrals and new app-based competitors to your clinic.

Orthopaedics · Fierce Healthcare · 2d

Cold Versus Hot Snare Endoscopic Mucosal Resection for Colorectal Polyps: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Informs whether you can skip electrocautery for polyp EMR, trading a lower delayed-bleeding risk against completeness of resection by polyp size.

Gastroenterology · Cureus · 2d

Seizure Control, Tolerability, and Direct Drug Cost of Lamotrigine Versus Carbamazepine in Adults With Focal Epilepsy in a Randomized Open-Label Trial in Bangladesh

For self-paying patients, lamotrigine's tolerability must be weighed against its higher cost when choosing first-line monotherapy for focal epilepsy.

Neurology · Cureus · 2d

Microbial Profile of Persistent Endodontic Infections and Emerging Antimicrobial Strategies

Explains why root canal retreatments fail: stress-adapted microbes survive chemomechanical prep and medication in protected niches, so culture-guided antimicrobial choice matters more than repeating the same protocol.

Medicine · Cureus · 2d

LeanTaaS expands iQueue into ambient intelligence with LookDeep acquisition

If your hospital runs iQueue for bed flow, this adds camera-based room monitoring feeding the same task list — worth asking how consent and false alerts are handled.

Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 2d

Comparative Effects of Cold and Warm Pelotherapy on Disease Activity and Function in Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Prospective Study

Both peloid temperatures improved disease activity and spinal function in AS, so you can offer balneotherapy as an adjunct without insisting on a specific temperature.

General Medicine · Cureus · 2d

Acute Mesenteric Ischaemia Presenting With Gangrenous Bowel: A Retrospective Observational Study From a Tertiary Care Centre in Northern India

In this 18-patient series, most AMI cases reached surgery with bowel already gangrenous — reinforcing that delayed presentation, not operative technique, drives the high fatality you see.

General Surgery · Cureus · 2d

Average Resting Heart Rate in Indian Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: Results from the Real-World Milestone Registry

Registry data on real-world resting heart rate and HR-lowering prescriptions in Indian HFrEF outpatients show where titration gaps sit against guideline targets.

Cardiology · Cureus · 2d

Pretreatment CHA₂DS₂-VASc-HS Score for Predicting Failed Thrombolysis in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Cross-Sectional Diagnostic Accuracy Study in Bangladesh

A pre-thrombolysis score could flag likely fibrinolysis failure before the 90-minute mark, letting you plan rescue PCI earlier where cath lab access is limited.

Cardiology · Cureus · 2d

Follow-Up Blood Cultures in Streptococcal and Enterococcal Bacteremia: A Systematic Review of Persistent Bacteremia and Its Clinical Significance

Repeat cultures after strep or enterococcal bacteremia are common but of uncertain yield; this review clarifies when persistence is likely enough to justify the extra draws.

General Medicine · Cureus · 2d

Effectiveness of Low-Cost Vacuum-Assisted Closure Using Locally Available Materials for Wound Healing: A Prospective Interventional Case Series From a Public-Sector Tertiary Care Hospital

A locally assembled VAC can give your public-sector patients negative-pressure wound therapy at a fraction of commercial dressing costs, if outcomes hold.

General Surgery · Cureus · 2d

Suspected Drug-Induced Hepatocellular Injury Following Use of an Unregulated Injectable Product Marketed as Retatrutide: A Case Report

Patients sourcing grey-market GLP-1 injectables can present with hepatocellular injury; ask about unregulated weight-loss injections when liver enzymes are unexplained.

Gastroenterology · Cureus · 2d

Dermoscopy in General Practice: A Retrospective Study of Skin Lesion Assessment, Diagnostic Yield, and Two-Week-Wait (2WW) Referrals

If GP dermoscopy sharpens triage, fewer benign lesions reach 2WW clinics and true melanomas get seen sooner — worth knowing before you adopt it.

General Medicine · Cureus · 2d

Perioperative Management of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) Receptor Agonists in Patients Undergoing Anesthesia: A Narrative Review of Gastric Emptying, Residual Gastric Contents, and Aspiration Risk

Gastric ultrasound and endoscopy studies consistently show more residual gastric content in GLP-1 RA users after standard fasting, especially early in treatment, during dose escalation or with recent semaglutide. Aspiration rates are low in absolute terms and statistically uncertain.

Anaesthesiology · Cureus · 2d

Measles is reemerging; most US physicians have never treated a case

Most of us have never managed measles; this review covers recognition, isolation and post-exposure prophylaxis before the next outbreak reaches your OPD.

General Medicine · Annals · 2d

Timing of Long COVID Improvement in Prospectively Followed RECOVER-Adult Participants.

Gives you real remission probabilities to quote when long COVID patients ask how long this lasts, rather than vague reassurance.

General Medicine · Annals · 2d

Basophils inhibit early lung metastasis by suppressing regulatory T cells.

Mouse data only, but it reframes basophils as antitumour immune regulators — a possible biomarker or target if you follow early metastatic seeding.

Oncology · Nature cancer · 2d

Decompression With or Without Fusion Across Subgroups With Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis : A Target Trial Emulation.

Subgroup analysis suggests which spondylolisthesis patients actually gain from adding fusion to decompression, so you can stop defaulting to the more morbid operation.

Orthopaedics · Annals · 2d

A live biotherapeutic product for adult allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation recipients: a partially randomized, placebo-controlled phase 1b trial.

Phase 1b only — no efficacy signal yet, but if colonisation protects the gut barrier, it could change how you counsel allo-HCT patients on infection risk.

Oncology · Nature Medicine · 2d

Regulatable membrane-bound IL-15 engineered TIL cell therapy for immune checkpoint inhibitor-resistant advanced melanoma: pooled analysis of phase 1 and 1/2 trials.

Engineered TILs that avoid systemic IL-2 could make cell therapy tolerable for checkpoint-resistant melanoma, sparing patients high-dose IL-2 toxicity.

Oncology · Nature Medicine · 2d

Long-term outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents versus coronary artery bypass grafting for left main coronary artery disease: a prospective analysis of the multicentre IRIS-MAIN registry.

Real-world Asian registry data on left main revascularisation help you counsel patients on whether stenting or surgery offers better long-term survival.

Cardiology · Lancet · 2d

Hematopoietic loss of KDM6A impairs cardiac recovery in heart failure via epigenetic reprogramming of myeloid cells.

KDM6A deficiency increased myeloid recruitment to the injured heart and reprogrammed monocytes, macrophages and neutrophils toward inflammatory, migratory and glycolytic states; IL-1β blockade after MI rescued the adverse cardiac phenotype.

Cardiology · Nature cardiovascular research · 2d

A Case of Delayed-Onset, Apomorphine-Induced Haemolytic Anaemia

If a Parkinson's patient on apomorphine infusion develops anaemia years later, consider drug-induced haemolysis and send a direct Coombs' test rather than assuming progression.

Neurology · Cureus · 2d

Residual Inflammatory Risk in Patients With Established Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol at Target: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Even at LDL-C target, an hs-CRP ≥2 mg/L flags patients with higher recurrence risk — consider measuring it before declaring secondary prevention optimised.

Cardiology · Cureus · 2d

Reperfusion Delays in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Prospective Observational Study From a Resource-Limited Setting

Quantifies where minutes are lost between first contact and balloon or lysis in a low-resource Indian centre — audit your own door-to-needle times against these stages.

Cardiology · Cureus · 3d

Tardive Blepharospasm Secondary to Chronic Antipsychotic Treatment: A Case Report

Long-term antipsychotic use can cause tardive blepharospasm that impairs daily function; consider it when patients on chronic neuroleptics develop involuntary eye closure.

Psychiatry · Cureus · 3d

Conversational AI and Psychosis: A Proposed Neurocognitive Framework Involving Anthropomorphism, Predictive Coding, and Delusional Reinforcement

Your patients already talk to chatbots daily; this framework suggests anthropomorphic AI may feed delusional content, so ask about AI use when assessing psychosis.

Psychiatry · Cureus · 3d

A Comparative Review of European and American Guidelines for Marker-Negative Intratesticular Lesions: One Testicular Mass, Two Pathways?

Normal markers don't rule out malignancy in a small testicular mass; EAU and AUA diverge on surveillance versus surgery, so know which pathway you are following before referring.

Urology · Cureus · 3d

Early Non-invasive Myocardial Work Indices and Their Association With Adverse Left Ventricular Remodeling Following Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Lower baseline global constructive work in patients who developed adverse remodeling, but the pooled mean difference was not significant (MD −319.29 mmHg%; 95% CI −671.11 to 32.53), with substantial heterogeneity (I² = 92.9%).

Cardiology · Cureus · 3d

Double Trouble: Myocarditis After Dual Checkpoint Inhibitors

Dual ICI therapy can cause fulminant myocarditis with heart block and shock plus myasthenia overlap; suspect it early in any patient on combination immunotherapy.

Cardiology · Cureus · 3d

FDA Provides Clarity to Support Cell and Gene Therapy Development and Quality

Potency assays are the usual bottleneck for CAR-T and gene therapy approvals; clearer FDA expectations mean faster access to these therapies for your patients.

Oncology · FDA — Press Announcements · 3d

Generative Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Reasoning Education: A Focused Review and Framework

Most studies report associations or short-term improvement rather than AI-specific educational effects; several rely on satisfaction outcomes, pre-post designs or historical controls. Feasibility and selected short-term gains are supported, but durable learning is not established.

General Medicine · Cureus · 3d

When Contrast Leaves the Lungs Wet: Recognising Non-cardiogenic Pulmonary Oedema After Contrast CT

In patients with known LV dysfunction, post-contrast pulmonary oedema can mimic cardiogenic failure — consider it before diuresing a contrast reaction.

Radiology · Cureus · 3d

Zocdoc opens infrastructure to AI agents, launches partnership with Instinct

If booking agents like Instinct fill your slots, your front desk workload and no-show patterns change; worth knowing how appointments reach you.

General Medicine · Fierce Healthcare · 3d