Richard Franki is the associate editor who writes and creates graphs. He started with the company in 1987, when it was known as the International Medical News Group. In his years as a journalist, Richard has worked for Cap Cities/ABC, Disney, Harcourt, Elsevier, Quadrant, Frontline, and Internet Brands. In the 1990s, he was a contributor to the ill-fated Indications column, predecessor of Livin' on the MDedge.
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A hot dog a day takes 36 minutes away
Plus: Overstressed and undersexed, pandemic pandemonium, and lifesaving spider venom.
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Children and COVID: New cases soar to near-record level
Vaccine initiations were down for the second consecutive week, but COVID-related deaths showed a big increase.
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Medicinal liquor and edited mosquitoes
Plus, health system’s money gets “adult,” and desk users get “exercise.”
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Children and COVID: New cases rise to winter levels
Since late June, weekly infections in children have increased by almost 1,400%.
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Survey: Family medicine adds wealth, but higher net worth skews male
Pandemic, med school debt were not enough to stop earnings growth for family physicians in 2020.
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Survey: Internists gain wealth, pay off debt
Higher net worth skews male for the specialty, but internal medicine is low when compared with other specialties.
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Motherhood can get old fast, and snubbing can become phubbing
Plus, COVID-19 treatment is going to the … horses? And vaccination cards are not going in wallets.
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Surge of new child COVID cases continues for 6th consecutive week
Upward trend in vaccine initiation is now in its 4th week among 12- to 15-year-olds.
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Please interrupt me, but don't heat your fish
Plus, the latest TikTok trend has people “running to the bathroom.”
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Increases in new COVID cases among children far outpace vaccinations
Almost 8 months into their vaccination odyssey, children aged 16-17 years just passed an important milestone.
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Mental illness admissions: 18-44 is the age of prevalence
Schizophrenia, depression, bipolar, and alcohol use disorders among the top five primary diagnoses for stays in younger adults.
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Bronchitis the leader at putting children in the hospital
Respiratory conditions make up three of the top five causes of nonmaternal, nonneonatal inpatient stays.
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Money buys life, and a cigarette maker wants to ‘unsmoke the world’
Plus, an autopsy gets interrupted by the patient, and the pandemic gets competitive.
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Children and COVID: Vaccinations, new cases both rising
The increase in vaccine initiation was fairly modest for the week of July 16-22, but the latest jump in new cases was not.