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[Comment] Global workforce implications of Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization

The Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court decision in 2022 changed the landscape of reproductive health care in the USA.1,2 As Claire D Brindis and colleagues explain in their Viewpoints, there are wide-ranging impacts on both the national health-care workforce and society. Workforce impacts include: an absence of clarity on exceptions...

Thu May 23, 2024 01:38
[Articles] Efficacy and safety of bimekizumab in patients with moderate-to-severe hidradenitis suppurativa (BE HEARD I and BE HEARD II): two 48-week, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre phase 3 trials

Bimekizumab was well tolerated by patients with hidradenitis suppurativa and produced rapid and deep clinically meaningful responses that were maintained up to 48 weeks. Data from these two trials support the use of bimekizumab for the treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe hidradenitis suppurativa.

Thu May 23, 2024 01:38
[Viewpoint] Health-care workforce implications of the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization decision

The Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court decision, which revoked the constitutional right to abortion in the USA, has impacted the national medical workforce. Impacts vary across states, but providers in states with restrictive abortion laws now must contend with evolving legal and ethical challenges that have the potential to affect...

Thu May 23, 2024 01:38
[Comment] New-generation Myval transcatheter heart valve in severe aortic stenosis

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become a well established treatment option in patients with severe aortic stenosis, regardless of the surgical risk spectrum.1,2 The refinement of techniques and broadening of indications have meant complication rates—including death, strokes, and vascular complications—have drastically decreased over...

Thu May 23, 2024 01:38
[Perspectives] Poetry for rewilding the medical and health humanities

Medical and health humanities (MHH) offer an antidote to the highly technical, mechanistic, medical specialties that students are expected to learn, often by rote. As Alan Bleakley, Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities, has argued: “Modern medicine is traditionally patriarchal, individualistic, and resistant to encouraging...

Thu May 23, 2024 01:38

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