Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, on the lack of adequate data opens in a new tab or window to support obeticholic acid (Ocaliva) for primary biliary cholangitis.
"In the ocean, they get into the food chain, and they get into us." -- Luís Fernando Amato-Lourenco, PhD, of Freie Universität Berlin, talking about microplastics and a new study opens in a new tab or window that detected them in the olfactory bulbs of human brains.
"We would love for third-party payers to see it as a disease so we can get coverage." -- Katherine Weise, OD, MBA, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report that myopia should be classified as a disease opens in a new tab or window
"It doesn't really change anything, just like the last variant didn't change anything, or the one before that, one before that, or the one before that." -- Amesh Adalja, MD, of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore, discussing what to know about the emerging COVID variant XEC opens in a new tab or window
"The bottom line is we still have a huge problem with physician burnout in our healthcare workforce." -- Gary Price, MD, president of the Physicians Foundation, discussing his organization's annual Survey of America's Current and Future Physicians opens in a new tab or window
"There's a nonrandom chance that sleep is associated with future suicidal thoughts or behaviors." -- Joel Stoddard, MD, MAS, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, on research showing a link between sleep disturbance and suicidal behavior among preteens opens in a new tab or window
"Nodal radiotherapy for breast cancer no longer needs 5 weeks." -- Sofia Rivera, MD, PhD, of Institut Gustave Roussy in France, reporting results of a randomized trial opens in a new tab or window showing that a shorter course didn't increase lymphedema risk or negatively affect survival.