May 17, 2021

MONDAY, May 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Less than half of physicians now work in private practice, according to a report released by the American Medical Association (AMA).As part of the AMA Policy R...

May 17, 2021

FRIDAY, May 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The time and financial costs associated with participating in the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)...

May 13, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) has an incidence of 0.32 percent among hospitalized patients, and risk factors include hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disea...

May 13, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- More than 90 percent of health care workers and two-thirds of the general population currently have hand dermatitis, according to a study presented at the E...

May 13, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The American Medical Association released a plan on Tuesday to confront structural racism inside the organization and the entire U.S. medical establishment....

May 13, 2021

Shared decision making (SDM) in knee osteoarthritis (OA) is essential to optimizing patient-centered care and involves clinicians and patients collaborating to make decisions using the best available ...

May 12, 2021

TUESDAY, May 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In a move to reverse Trump-era policies, the Biden administration announced Monday that the government will protect gay and transgender people against sex dis...

May 11, 2021

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For postmenopausal women after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), preoperative vitamin D deficiency may adversely affect early postoperative outcomes, according to...

May 11, 2021

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For postmenopausal women after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), preoperative vitamin D deficiency may adversely affect early postoperative outcomes, according to...

May 11, 2021

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who fill a prescription for an opioid medication after a dental procedure have an increased risk for overdose, as do their family members, according t...

May 11, 2021

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who fill a prescription for an opioid medication after a dental procedure have an increased risk for overdose, as do their family members, according t...

May 10, 2021

FRIDAY, May 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Following implementation of electronically sharing office visit notes with patients, more primary and specialty care clinicians agree the practice is beneficial...

May 07, 2021

THURSDAY, May 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- High- and low-risk trajectories are identifiable for youth following their first opioid prescription, according to a study published online April 22 in JAMA N...

May 06, 2021

TUESDAY, May 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Compared with nonphysicians, women physicians delay childbearing, with median age at first childbearing of 32 and 27 years, respectively, according to a study ...

May 03, 2021

FRIDAY, April 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Existing patients receiving opioid analgesics and buprenorphine for opioid use disorder have continued to receive medications during the COVID-19 pandemic, a...

May 03, 2021

“Migraine headaches affect more than 12% of the United States population, mostly females, and result in significant impairment of quality of life and loss of productivity,” explains Rushil Shah, M...

Apr 30, 2021

THURSDAY, April 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation reduces acute pain and opioid requirements in the week following orthopedic surgery, according to a pilot study p...

Apr 28, 2021

WEDNESDAY, April 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In a clinical practice guideline issued by the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Foundation and published online April 6 in Otolary...

Apr 27, 2021

MONDAY, April 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Clinician sex and local work culture may contribute more to burnout than electronic health record (EHR) usage, according to a study published online April 20...

Apr 27, 2021

MONDAY, April 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- All 26,000 Houston Methodist workers must get a COVID-19 shot by June 7 or risk losing their jobs, making it the first U.S. hospital system to make vaccinati...