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Physicians are not “providers” and referring to them by that term undermines their expertise, clinical integrity and ethical obligations, according to a position paper issued by American College of Physicians.
Language and names in health care have practical implications and ethical significance, the paper’s authors stated.
They recommend that physicians be referred to as physicians, and that the terms “clinicians” or “health care professionals” be used to describe individuals with varied credentials.
“Words matter,” Jason M. Goldman, MD, MACP, president of the ACP, told Healio. “The word

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2026, William B. Trattler, MD, of the Center for Excellence in Eye Care, discusses best practices to track keratoconus progression.
“It’s very important because when we diagnose keratoconus, it is helpful to know if [patients] are stable or progressive,” Trattler told Healio. “What I love about topography is using a difference map. That’s where we take the original scan, the first time we saw the patient, and compare it to the most recent scan and look at the differences.”
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With a difference map, Trattler said,

In the 1970s and 1980s, combined ACL and grade 3 medial collateral ligament injuries were primarily treated with big, open surgical procedures.
“It was terrible,” Andy Williams, MBBS, FRCS(Ortho), FFSEM(UK), consultant knee surgeon at Fortius Clinic in London, told Healio. “Because we did not understand the anatomy, we cobbled it all together and, therefore, the structures we had repaired were not at the right length. You tended to end up with a knee that would not straighten and would not bend, but the MCL remained loose. It was the worst of all worlds.”
However, as technology improved,

When HHS overhauled the CDC’s childhood immunization schedule in January, it significantly reduced the number of vaccines recommended for all children, which experts said will reduce vaccination rates and make the country sicker.
The overhaul, which is being challenged by physicians in court, was undertaken without customary input from federal vaccine advisors after President Trump signed a memo asking HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC to align the U.S. schedule with other developed countries.
The new CDC schedule now includes three tiers of recommendations for the shots available

Izervay injections for geographic atrophy led to acute IOP increases in 3% of eyes in a real-world dataset published in Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases.
In addition, eyes that received Izervay (avacincaptad pegol 2 mg, Astellas Pharma) were predicted to convert to wet age-related macular degeneration at an annualized rate of 6.17%.
“Real-world outcomes of intravitreal therapies often differ from clinical trial findings due to differences in patient characteristics, implementation, adherence and other factors,” Abdullah Abou-Samra, MD, vitreoretinal surgery fellow at Retina Group

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — When it comes to treating skin aging in patients with skin of color, dermatologists should focus on treating pigmentary concerns, according to a speaker at South Beach Symposium.
For patients with skin of color, defined as Fitzpatrick phototypes IV to VI, the first signs of skin aging are typically dyschromia, uneven pigmentation and volume changes, Cheri N. Frey, MD, FAAD, assistant professor, residency program director, director of cosmetic dermatology and medical director of the clinical research unit at Howard University, said during the presentation. These signs often

The FDA has taken additional steps to support the transition from artificial petroleum-based food dyes to natural alternatives, the agency announced.
According to an FDA press release, food companies now have flexibility to claim products contain “no artificial colors” when the products do not contain petroleum-based colors.
Companies before could only make such claims when their products had no added colors at all, the FDA said.
“We acknowledge that calling colors derived from natural sources ‘artificial’ might be confusing for consumers and a hindrance for

Peritoneal dialysis initiation in the U.S. rose significantly in health service areas previously classified as low-use areas, according to study data published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Historically, PD rates vary based on geography, with greater initiation in higher income and Western communities, according to Christopher Knapp, MD, MPH, nephrologist at Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute in Minneapolis, and colleagues. However, revisions to the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System in 2011, which increased reimbursements for home dialysis training,

Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.
This month, we are featuring how to navigate the rapidly changing landscape of dry eye care. We now have multiple medications targeting different types of dry eye. In an ideal world, it would be great to be able to get a specific medication targeting a specific type of dry eye in the hands of a patient. Unfortunately, due to insurance coverage, we are often unable to control which medication a