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Unlike adult prisons, the goal of juvenile justice is not to punish but instead help young people. It’s especially significant, experts say, given that Black youths are already overrepresented in the criminal justice process. w/The Marshall Project NBC News propub.li/34EN79W

Many discharge improvement projects were halted during 2020, but as chief quality officers saw a bed backlog that wouldn't stop, they knew the work needed to continue modernhealthcare.com/safety-quality…

A large health system is paying $22.7M to feds for alleged spine surgery upcoding/unnecessary care, and for not reporting the docs to HRSA National Practitioner Data Bank that tracks doctor misconduct & overpayments modernhealthcare.com/safety-quality… #healthcare HHS.gov

There are serious safety/quality concerns about how private #ketamine clinics deliver care, especially considering it's a drug of last resort for many w/depression modernhealthcare.com/safety-quality… #MentalHealthMatters #behavioralhealth #SuicidePrevention #healthcare

A Supreme Court decision to overturn #RoeVWade would result in abortion bans in more than 20 states, and medical schools would also have to curtail mandatory abortion care training. #obgyntwitter #primarycare #physicians #healthcare Medscape OBGYN medscape.com/viewarticle/97…

I'm a new health editor at Medscape for primary care news. My DM's are open for #obgyn, #primarycare, family medicine, geriatric, #urology & #Pediatrics leads!

You may be hearing the argument that before the rise of modern commercial infant formula, babies all ate breastmilk and everything was great. As a historian of infant feeding, let me tell you why that’s not true.

@MamaBuckingham Sorry 🙈 Bottom line: COVID causes clots, often on a level that standard tests are not picking up. There’s increasing evidence for complications from blood vessel disease/clots post COVID, but treatment and access to the right tests is lagging.

Less teens are giving birth, but of those that are, they have more comorbid conditions, via Jake Remaly medscape.com/viewarticle/97… Medscape OBGYN #teenagepregnancy #pregnancy St. Joseph's Health Anna Staniczenko @lindsayadmon @STealOBGYN

Join this live discussion on what docs should know: x.com/i/spaces/1ypKd…

'It's time to die' | Fourth-grade survivor of Uvalde shooting recalls what gunman told students - The Robb Elementary student said he and several of his friends survived after hiding under a table with a tablecloth covering them. kens5.com/mobile/article… via KENS 5

Proton therapy has had a high price tag & unclear benefits for two decades. Many centers have gone under or are on the brink. And yet, even amid the pandemic, more hospitals are building them. Tara Bannow & I dive into this never-ending arms race. statnews.com/2022/05/26/pro…

6/ Now to more exciting stuff. Covid causes micro clots 🩸 with amyloid. Yes amyloid. They block capillaries and reduce oxygenation. Here is a photo of a patient’s blood before Covid and afterwards when they got #LongCovid showing new microclots cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Here's what to know about Missouri's abortion laws now that Roe v. Wade is overturned. news.stlpublicradio.org/2022-06-24/mis…

Big day tomorrow: Health insurance companies and employers have to start posting data on what they pay hospitals, doctors, and other providers. Drug prices, naturally, are excluded. statnews.com/2022/06/30/hos…

A THREAD: Today, we are pleased to republish The Associated Press investigation that exposed the infamous “The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” on the 50th anniversary of its appearance in news outlets around the county. bit.ly/3S1IISc

New Medscape report examines the role of physicians in helping patients and shaping the debate about gun violence. ms.spr.ly/6014jqIjG

If an older adult has dementia or Alzheimer's, they have a higher chance of being abused by a caregiver. "She was coming in with wounds and injuries, and no one was thinking elder abuse. She ended up dead." medscape.com/viewarticle/98…

Insurers, drugmakers, PBMs are trying to sidestep arguments about the high cost of new weight loss drugs by painting them as vanity meds, and shifting the cost burden to consumers. bit.ly/42XJiFo via Modern Healthcare #healthcare $CI $UHG $CNC $NVO

Why aren't docs managing pain during gyno procedures? ms.spr.ly/601592WtB