Practice Management News

More than 40% of parents in the United States are snacking more during the COVID-19 pandemic, data from the International Food Information Council Foundation’s 2020 Food and Health Survey show.

Nearly half of the primary care physicians who responded to a Primary Care Collaborative, Larry A. Green Center and 3rd Conversation weekly survey “continue to lack” personal protective equipment.

A Supreme Court decision Thursday allowed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program to remain in effect, keeping the approximately 690,000 offspring of U.S. immigrants from being deported.

It is with excitement that we at the Association of Healthcare Social Media announce that the inaugural meeting for the AHSM will be taking place virtually on July 26 and August 8. Like many organizations, we originally intended for an in-person meeting and initially postponed.

A judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals blocked HHS from implementing a rule requiring drug companies to put the manufacturer’s list price for prescription drugs or biological products to wholesalers or direct purchasers in TV commercials.

Susan R. Bailey, MD, an allergist with more than 30 years of experience in a small practice in Texas, was recently sworn in as AMA’s 175th president. She said her agenda includes fighting chronic diseases and enhancing physicians’ professional experiences.

Racial injustice is in plain view. Most understand and agree what happened to George Floyd was appalling and that Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray and Eric Garner represent inexcusable police brutality and abuse of power.

The COVID-19 pandemic may not peak until July, leaders of the Pan American Health Organization said during a virtual press conference today.

The HHS announced that it has finalized a rule that allows the government to interpret sex discrimination based on the definition of the word “sex” as male or female and biology — a move the agency also said “protects and enforces the civil rights of all.”

A review in JAMA Neurology concluded that clinicians should monitor patients with COVID-19 for neurological disorders, but more research is needed to further examine the role of SARS-CoV-2 as a contributor to postinfectious neurologic complications, one of the review’s authors told Healio Primary Care.