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Houston physician convicted of raping a sedated patient won't get any jail time. (Houston Chronicle)
Want to avoid burnout? "Follow your fear," advises Jill Wener, MD. (Kevin MD)
Prominent health policy scholar H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH, of Dartmouth, is accused of plagiarism for a 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article. (STAT News, Retraction Watch)
Bristol-Myers Squibb announced FDA approval of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab (Opdivo) for the treatment of certain patients with advanced small cell lung cancer.
Michael Holick, MD, the Pied Piper of vitamin D, has received big bucks from the supplement industry, indoor tanning bed operators, and Quest Diagnostics. (Kaiser Health News)
Apparently just coincidence: 16 ICU nurses at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, are all pregnant. (CNN)
HHS Secretary Alex Azar tells Reuters his agency has legal power to end pharmacy benefit managers' drug rebates, which the Trump administration contends are a contributor to high drug prices.
The New York Times visits an emergency department that provides medication-assisted treatment on demand for opioid addiction.
What looks like celiac disease but doesn't respond to eliminating gluten in the diet? Lisa Sanders, MD, has the diagnosis. (New York Times Magazine)
Thanks a bundle, SPRINT: Aggressive treatment of this elderly woman's hypertension nearly killed her. (Washington Post)
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