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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The residency period for physicians typically lines up with their optimal childbearing years. "It can be easy to think, 'Oh, you're just focusing on your career.' But people don't realize how often women are having children during residency," said Lilly Springer, a doctoral student in the Department of Economics at the University of Kansas. …

Lyndsey Harper Contributor Dr. Lyndsey Harper is a board certified OB-GYN and a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. She has been named Forbes Top 53 Women Disrupting Healthcare. She is the founder and CEO of Rosy, a women’s health technology company that provides women with research-backed solutions for sexual health concerns. Women’s health has been under-researched, underfunded, and underdeveloped since “women’s health” was even a…

A study in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that AI assistants like ChatGPT could significantly improve healthcare. Using real-world health questions, the study found that healthcare professionals preferred AI responses to those of physicians 79% of the time, citing higher quality and empathy. While not a replacement for doctors, AI could be integrated into health systems to enhance patient care, potentially reducing physician burnout and improving overall healthcare delivery.While AI won’t replace your doctor, a new JAMA…

AI may not replace your doctor anytime soon, but it will probably be answering their emails. A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine Friday examined questions from patients and found that ChatGPT provided better answers than human doctors four out of five times. A panel of medical professionals evaluated the exchanges, and preferred the AI’s response in 79% of cases. ChatGPT didn’t just provide higher quality answers, the panel concluded the AI was more empathetic, too. It’s a finding that could have major…

The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on the data-sharing practices of telehealth companies, focusing on widespread uses of data that many companies in the industry have failed to disclose to users.The FTC earlier this month reached a proposed settlement with BetterHelp, a subsidiary of Teladoc Health Inc., TDOC 3.43% over allegations that the therapy-focused telemedicine company promised to keep users’ health data private but shared it with advertising partners.…

An Indiana doctor has top marks on several physician-review sites, with one patient writing that the doctor was the best she had seen in years. The site, however, is missing some key information—including his conviction for insurance fraud, medical-malpractice claims and a licensing-board sanction. Doctor-rating websites regularly fail to mention such black marks on physicians’ records, according to research published in November in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.  The researchers compared two groups of online…

Amazon . com Inc. closed a $3.9 billion deal to acquire an operator of primary-care clinics, joining an array of companies betting on physicians and medical services to broaden their reach in healthcare. The company said Wednesday it had completed its acquisition of 1Life Healthcare Inc., which operates a primary-care practice under the name One Medical. The deal gives Amazon access to dozens of medical offices in more than 20 U.S. markets, as well as deals with thousands of companies to provide…

Early last year, Sam Bankman-Fried told an FTX all-hands meeting about an addition to the company’s staff.It wasn’t a head of accounting. It wasn’t a risk manager. Instead, it was a psychiatrist who would serve as coach for stressed-out employees at the fast-growing crypto exchange. Dr. George Lerner introduced himself on the video meeting and encouraged workers to consult with him, meeting attendees recalled. FTX collapsed in November, brought down by…

Inset of Larry Elmore’s original cover for Weasel’s Luck.Image: Wizards of the Coast For the first book in the Dragonlance Heroes series, The Legend of Huma, the story of the greatest knight in Krynn was told, and how he banished the Dragon-goddess Takhisis and saved the world. Now, in the third installment of the series, Michael Williams’ Weasel’s Luck, we have the tale of… some kid who’s primarily concerned with not being murdered.Weasel, real name Galen Pathwarden, is not a hero, despite the name of the series. Also,…

Physicians-in-training at top teaching hospitals across the country are joining unions, demanding higher pay and better working conditions.The Committee of Interns and Residents, the largest group representing doctors in residency and fellowship programs, said it added chapters at five teaching hospitals last year and two in 2021, up from a prepandemic pace of roughly one a year. CIR, which is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, said it represents about 15% of the nation’s 140,000 residents and…