Practice Management News

WASHINGTON — Aggressive intraoperative warming during major noncardiac surgery did not reduce myocardial injury, site infections, transfusion requirement or hospitalization stay vs. routine temperature management, a speaker reported.

The COVID-19 pandemic reduced the world’s life expectancy by about 2 years, according to recent estimates published in Population and Development Review.

WASHINGTON — Tranexamic acid administered intravenously before and after noncardiac surgery lowered the risk for life-threatening, major and critical organ bleeding compared with placebo, according to results of the POISE-3 trial.

On one hand, the tax tactic described in this article applies only to a limited number of physicians: those who are in private practice and in practices that are taxed as S corporations.

A team of researchers assembled the first complete sequence of a human genome, 2 decades after the Human Genome Project formed the first incomplete draft sequence, according to the NIH.

March is Autoimmune Awareness Month, and rheumatology organizations have been using their reach and influence on social media sites to spread the word and help patients with autoimmune diseases find community.

Dermatologists have been mostly receptive of artificial intelligence integration into their clinical practices, according to a study.

Health care providers said they feel undervalued and unsatisfied with the current health care system, and many are considering leaving the workforce, according to Elsevier Health’s first “Clinician of the Future” report.

Almost 16 million Americans who enrolled in Medicaid during the public health emergency could lose coverage when the emergency declaration ends if it expires after the third quarter of 2022.

The passage of the Build Back Better Act by the Senate has been put on the back burner. But it makes sense for high-income earners and those with large retirement account balances to understand the provisions in the version of the bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2021.