Practice Management News

Prescriptions for opioids following Mohs micrographic surgery have declined in recent years, suggesting patients and surgeons are responding to concerns regarding the opioid epidemic, according to a study.

Among health care workers, women experienced greater work-family and family-work conflicts than men during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data presented at the virtual Women in Medicine Summit.

An organization is helping physicians fight online harassment and false information regarding COVID-19, a speaker at the Women in Medicine Summit said.

Men accounted for a substantially larger proportion of verified physician Twitter accounts and had more than three times as many followers as women with verified physician accounts, according to recent data.

The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest example of how female leaders can thrive over their male counterparts in crisis situations, a keynote speaker at the virtual Women in Medicine Summit said.

Spongiotic dermatitis was the most commonly reported cutaneous reaction to COVID-19 vaccination among patients who also had biopsy results available for review, according to a registry-based study.

A new report showed that about 15 million Americans who enrolled in Medicaid during the public health emergency could lose coverage when the emergency declaration ends.

For some time now, we have been discussing COVID-19 as two epidemics. One is the tragic and unnecessary epidemic among those unwilling to be vaccinated who are pushing our fragile health care system to the limit, unnecessarily spreading the infections throughout the community, including to the most vulnerable. The other is one of breakthrough infections in those who have done what they can to protect themselves by being partially or fully vaccinated.

Among 410 leading medical journals, just 21% had a woman as editor in chief, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

The FDA recommended health care providers and individuals avoid using compounded products said to be “sterile, produced and distributed nationwide by Prescription Labs Inc.” that does business as Greenpark Compounding Pharmacy.