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On Sept. 23, Healio Community will host its first Mentorship Networking Event at 4 p.m. EDT, featuring an opportunity to connect with a mentor and gain career advice. The free webinar includes insights from four mentors in a range of specialties: Priya Bansal, MD, clinical assistant professor at Northwestern Feinberg S
During medical school, physicians spend years mastering anatomy, pathology and surgical technique, yet most of them receive little formal education in finance, investing, taxation or business management. Despite this, physicians are routinely expected to make important decisions affecting hundreds of thousands — or eve
The first step in making a big career change is recognizing your “early symptoms,” according to an expert. At the 2026 Women in Nephrology Annual Leadership Conference, Nuria Maria Pastor-Soler, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at University of Vermont, will speak to women in medicine considering a career chang
Results presented at the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Annual Meeting showed GLP-1 receptor agonists were not associated with increased fracture risk in patients with obesity or type 2 diabetes. “We did not see the signal that I and many other doctors are worried about, that GLP-1-related weight loss is ass
Instrumented metatarsus adductus and hallux valgus correction may shorten recovery time and significantly improve radiographic measures, according to interim results presented at the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Annual Meeting. “This is a relatively complex midfoot reconstruction. It is not just a bunion c
Results presented at the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Annual Meeting showed patients who underwent a minimally invasive Lapidus procedure for hallux valgus had similar outcomes as those who underwent an open Lapidus procedure. “Surgeons who do the [Lapidus] procedure either open or minimally invasive can f
A 37-year-old man presented as a polytrauma after a motor vehicle accident with multiple injuries to the sternum, bilateral rib fractures, pneumothorax, pelvic fractures, left foot fractures and bilateral upper extremity fractures. Upon presentation, the patient was found to have a Glasgow Coma Scale of 7 while in hemo
An audit reanalyzing a 2025 meta-analysis from the Unified Periprosthetic Joint Infection Definition Task Force found synovial fluid white blood cell count and polymorphonuclear percentage to be “poor” standalone rule-in tests for PJI. Both the recently proposed Unified PJI Criteria and the 2021 European Bone and Joint
Lawmakers questioned Nicole Saphier, MD, on abortion bans, vaccines and other preventive health issues during Wednesday’s hearing to be the next surgeon general. In May, President Donald J. Trump announced Saphier would replace Casey Means, MD, as his nominee for the position after months of a stalled process. In a pos
During hip arthroscopy, the surgeon must first access the hip joint; typically, this is done using a cannula, or a small, hollow tube that is placed into a surgical incision to make a portal. Despite the importance of this step to the success of the procedure, traditional cannula options are limited to two types: circu
A 37-year-old man presented as a polytrauma after a motor vehicle accident with multiple injuries to the sternum, bilateral rib fractures, pneumothorax, pelvic fractures, left foot fractures and bilateral upper extremity fractures. Upon presentation, the patient was found to have a Glasgow Coma Scale of 7 while in hemo
Eleven pediatric hospitals appeared on the honor roll this year for U.S. News & World Report’s 20th edition of Best Children’s Hospitals. What started as a physician survey 20 years ago has evolved into a comprehensive review of the outcomes and resources available at pediatric hospitals in the United States, according
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