Born at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald has deep-rooted ties to her community. She attended the Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Honors College, earning dual degrees in Biology/Neurobiology and Women’s Studies/Women’s Health. Dr. Fitzgerald then pursued her medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, graduating from the Physician Scientist Training Program in 2013. She completed her residency in Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, followed by a fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at Georgetown University/MedStar Health. Currently, Dr. Fitzgerald serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of…
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Dr. Esperanza Catalina Welsh is a distinguished dermatologist renowned for her expertise in dermatology, dermatopathology, and cosmetic dermatology. With over two decades of experience, she has significantly contributed to skin health and disease research. Early Life and Education Dr. Welsh earned her medical degree from Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in 1997. She then pursued a residency in Dermatology at the University of Miami/Jackson Health System from 2000 to 2003, followed by a fellowship in Dermatopathology at the same institution from 2003 to 2004. This rigorous training provided her with a solid foundation in diagnosing and treating a wide range…
When it comes time for planning an outpatient surgery, there are more options than ever before. Traditionally, all surgeries were performed in the hospital, but in the past 50 years, patients are feeling more empowered to choose ambulatory surgery centers, or ASCs for short, for their next outpatient surgery or procedure. According to a new U.S. News & World Report online survey, patient experience at the surgery center facility was one of the top key factors in selecting an ASC, along with quality of the procedure and doctor’s education, training and experience performing the procedure. What Are Ambulatory Surgery Centers? Ambulatory surgery…
More top vaccine regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have either left or been forced out following the resignation last week of Dr. Peter Marks, the agency’s top vaccine official, according to four former and current government officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. Experts say the exodus of top talent at the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research could hobble the agency’s ability to approve new vaccines and a wide range of other drugs — especially in the wake of the mass layoffs by the Department of Health and…
By MATT McCORD When most Americans undergo surgery, they expect to recover quickly and return to their normal lives. Few realize that something as routine as a shoulder surgery, a hernia repair, or a mastectomy can mark the beginning of a life-altering opioid addiction. This often-overlooked connection between routine medical care and opioid dependence demands urgent attention. How Physicians and Hospitals Sustain the Opioid Epidemic For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has shaped medical education, ingraining the belief that opioids are the best first-line treatment for acute pain. As a result, American physicians prescribe opioids at dramatically higher rates than their…
The decline in cognitive health, especially that leading to Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases, is one of the most feared conditions by patients and their families. It’s also one of the most expensive. But if we can predict it early there are things we can do to prevent or ameliorate it. The issue has been finding an easy and comprehensive way to monitor it as part of primary care. The team at Linus Health has been building a diagnostic solution for exactly that and claims that it’s now the right time to roll it out as part of general primary…
Lynda Brown-Ganzert is CEO of RxPx. The company is the 2022 merger of the company she founded, Curatio, which was a support system for rare disease patients, with RxMx, a complementary service that helped clinicians manage patients on treatment or clinical trials. Lynda says that somehow I inspired the merger! (Although I don’t remember it, nor did she send me my 10%!). Now the company is supporting rare disease patients, funded primarily by pharma, across the globe. Lynda gives a full demo of both the clinician and patient experience–coordinating meds, labs, imaging, appointments, content, symptoms, patient reported outcomes, peer and…
A friend of mine who wants to stay anonymous (for now at any rate) had a crazy waste of time proving that he was eligibile for a medication on his plan. I thought his story might trigger a few of you! And yes Optum is of course part of United HealthGroup–Matthew Holt Here is the ridiculous situation I had with filling a prescription through COBRA a few weeks back. I spent 33 minutes on the phone on January 8th, 2025 before I finally navigated the maze that is American healthcare to the extent that a medication that has been prescribed…
By MATTHEW HOLT DOGE, or Doggie as Kara Swisher has been calling it, has gone from being a meme about Shiba Inus to a crypto scam to a group tearing the Federal government apart.So I thought I would use the title of this piece to make a joke. Like Musk’s humor it’s puerile and not funny. What’s also not funny is what Musk’s team has done to small government agencies, like USAID & CFPB that really help people, not to mention the irrational firing of thousands of government employees that appear to be screwing up the NIH, the National Parks,…
By KIM BELLARD Many people don’t realize it, but a hundred years ago America was something of a scientific backwater. Oh, sure, we had the occasional Nobel laureate, but the center of science was in Europe, particularly Germany. Then in the early 1930’s the Nazis decided that “purity” – of political ideas, of blood – was more important than truth, making life uncomfortable at best and deadly at worst for their scientists. So hundreds of them fled, many of them ending up in the U.S. And – voila! – American science came of age and hasn’t looked back. Until now.…