Doctors and the D Word: Talking About Death Is an Essential Skill — and One Often Lacking
The reasons for physicians’ discomfort with conversations about dying are as much cultural, social, and systemic as they are personal.
All articles by Tara Haelle, MS
FDA Approval of Medication With a Digital Monitoring System: Major Breakthrough or “Brave New World”?
Abilify MyCite adds a digital sensor to the medication aripiprazole. The sensor, an ingestible event marker, is activated by contact with stomach acids and transmits a signal to a skin patch the patient wears, which then transmits to an app.
Recognizing the Pioneering Women in Medicine for Women’s History Month
Women continue to propel medicine into the future. Take a glimpse at just a handful of the remarkable women in medicine making history today.
Neuropathic Pain Complexity Requires Thoughtful Approach and Combination of Interventions
The wide range of etiologies underlying neuropathic pain render it a particularly challenging condition to manage.
Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in Teens
Only a small percentage of adolescents undergoing treatment for severe opioid use disorders are receiving medication therapy to manage their condition.
Risks Associated With Neuropathic Pain Treatment
Death and serious outcomes resulting from overdose or poisoning from drugs used to treat depression more than doubled during the last decade and a half, found a recent study, with amitriptyline topping the list.
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