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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Placebo effect can be found in a cup of coffee
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Humble shopping carts become diagnostic tools and dirty dentures become homes for respiratory pathogens.
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Low-calorie tastes sweeter with a little salt
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Indiana loses its biggest Butt, and sugarless sweeteners lose the aftertaste.
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The road to weight loss is paved with collusion and sabotage
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Taiwanese mosquitoes face a robotic foe, and surgical knots face the cold eye of physics.
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The enemy of carcinogenic fumes is my friendly begonia
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Also: Driving the gastrointestinal highway and pulling the plug on an unsupervised chatbot.
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Ancient plague, cyclical pandemics … history lesson?
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: AI detects invisible concussions and a janitor does more than clean.
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Survey: Family medicine earnings steady despite overall growth for physicians
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- Richard Franki
As the effects of COVID waned in 2022, issues with third-party payers, patients, and burnout remained.
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Internists in 2022: Increased earnings can’t stop rising dissatisfaction
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- Richard Franki
As the effect of COVID waned, issues with third-party payers, patients, and burnout remained.
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People still want their medical intelligence in human form
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Finding humor in the temporal lobe and comparing reproductive inequality in mammals.
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The antimicrobial peptide that even Pharma can love
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Faster wound healing comes in waves, and a cancer drug that eats bugs.
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Boys may carry the weight, or overweight, of adults’ infertility
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: The promise of fecal beads and the air of sleep-dieting.
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Study shifts burden of IgG4-related disease to women
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- Richard Franki
First population-based U.S. analysis establishes “key benchmarks” for immune-mediated condition initially described in 2001.
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Medical-level empathy? Yup, ChatGPT can fake that
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Fishy sperm, an even more fishy sperm donor, and aviation-related sleep deserts.
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Drive, chip, and putt your way to osteoarthritis relief
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Gut diversity gets measured and dog walking gets dangerous.
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Poor representation of patients with darker skin phototypes in laser and light device studies
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- Richard Franki
Analysis of skin phototypes reveals discrepancy in representation in cosmetic dermatology research.
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Living the introvert’s dream: Alone for 500 days, but never lonely
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- Lucas Franki
- Richard Franki
- Teraya Smith
Plus: Rapid evolution in the skin microbiome and a step toward prediction of adult height.