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Hospitals and health systems have invested in recruitment bonuses, retention programs, and flexible staffing models in an effort to address the nationwide nursing shortage, but one of the biggest barriers to building the nursing workforce starts before registered nurses (RNs) ever make it to the bedside: There are too few nursing faculty to educate the next generation of nurses. During the 2024-2025 academic year, nursing schools turned away 80,162 qualified applications. The rejections weren’t due to poor grades, low test scores, or a lack of commitment to the nursing profession. Instead, prospective students were turned away from nursing programs because there were not enough nursing faculty to teach them. A lack of clinical sites, classroom space, clinical preceptors, and budget constraints were also factors. mdsc.pe/3RCny1I

More than 101 million Americans live in federally designated primary care shortage areas, according to federal data from March 2026. Without a regular doctor, many go to urgent care instead. Nearly 30% of US adults visited an urgent care center or retail clinic in 2019, the CDC found. Those visits are a screening opportunity that largely goes unused. A fingerstick A1c needs no fasting and no specialized operator, and it returns a result in about 10 minutes. It is not routinely built into urgent care workflows. Meanwhile, 11 million US adults have diabetes and don’t know it, and 8 in 10 of the 115 million with prediabetes are also unaware, according to the CDC. Most never get tested at the place they actually show up for care. mdsc.pe/4yhIhbG

Women with endometriosis have a distinct pattern of androgens in their blood that sets them apart from women without the disease, based on a recent case-control study. These findings could lead to a noninvasive test for a condition that often takes years to diagnose and typically requires surgical confirmation, according to senior author Douglas Gibson, PhD, of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. The results pointed to “a distinct hormone profile associated with endometriosis that is not seen in healthy controls,” Gibson told Medscape Medical News. Differences in androgens, including a class of adrenal androgens called 11-oxygenated androgens, “are a key feature of this condition,” he said, and could shape new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. mdsc.pe/4gD8cnW

Increased consumption of beta-glucan and inulin was associated with a roughly 30% lower risk for Crohn’s disease (CD) in first-degree relatives (FDRs) of affected patients. These fiber subtypes were also linked to preserved gut barrier function, lower levels of systemic inflammation markers, and favorable changes in gut microbiome composition. mdsc.pe/4fy6tiG

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As the FIFA World Cup showcases the athleticism of elite soccer, new research suggests that years of repeated heading and other blows to the head may be linked to subtle but detectable brain changes long before dementia would typically emerge. Researchers found that former elite soccer players reported significantly more symptoms of depression, anxiety, and executive dysfunction than matched controls and had lower gray matter volume on MRI, despite performing similarly on objective cognitive testing. “These findings suggest there may be measurable effects on brain health in former elite soccer players even in midlife, before clinically apparent neurodegenerative disease would typically emerge,” lead author Caleigh Lynch, MSc, from Imperial College London and the UK Dementia Research Institute, both in London, England, said in a statement. mdsc.pe/4wGk3Go

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The average geriatric patient with heart failure faces a laundry list of instructions from their cardiologist: Take medications as prescribed, follow a specific diet, get enough physical activity, call the doctor if they’re feeling unwell. Those are just a few items that one patient might be tracking. Multiply that by millions more, each with their own nuanced laundry list, and it’s clear the future of cardiology in an aging America will include increasingly complex patients — and carefully personalized treatment options. To read the full feature tap on the link: mdsc.pe/4pmAgy8

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Ten-year follow-up data from the FIDELITY study of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) in patients with symptoms of degenerative meniscal tear found the procedure offered no benefits and was even associated with worse outcomes. The FIDELITY study used sham APM as the placebo control. The study involved 146 patients, aged 35-65 years, who were randomized during exploratory arthroscopy either to have damaged or loose parts of the meniscus removed, or to a sham procedure where the surgeon mimicked the movements of surgery without removing any tissue. The 1-year data found no differences between the sham and real surgery groups in patient-evaluated functional outcomes, health-related quality of life, or knee pain after exercise. mdsc.pe/4tXumot

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The American Society of Retina Specialists Annual Meeting, taking place July 15-18, highlights collaborative strategies to strengthen clinical practice and optimize patient management. Continue learning through our curriculum of expert-led activities that shape the future of comprehensive eye care. ▶️ mdsc.pe/4y8UP57

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Emerging evidence suggests coffee influences gut microbiota through bioactive compounds beyond caffeine, with potential effects on digestive and metabolic health. mdsc.pe/3TkKRNW

For years, conventional wisdom held that skin improvements among patients on GLP-1 medications were a byproduct of weight loss, which reduces inflammation. But doctors are spotting a much more complex reality — and new research supports their observations. At the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dermatologist Joe K. Tung, MD, MBA, noticed dramatic changes in his patients with psoriasis just starting a GLP-1. Their plaques began “melting away” within 2 days. “That’s too fast for that to be a weight-loss effect,” he said. “The next step for me was just thinking, could this mechanistically be plausible?” More on the findings: mdsc.pe/4aPfzF2

Pacemakers have become smaller and more sophisticated over the decades, but they still share one defining characteristic: They must enter the body to operate. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, challenge that technology with a wearable, noninvasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound from outside the body. The study, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, demonstrated how the tiny, postage-stamp-sized device could synchronize contractions in engineered human heart cells, restore normal heart rhythms in animal models, and maintain a favorable safety profile during 8 months of follow-up. mdsc.pe/4gw41Kz