Practice Management News

BOSTON — A single dose of benzathine penicillin G is effective against early syphilis regardless of HIV status, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

Pediatric mental health emergencies increased with each COVID-19 wave in New York City, a study in Pediatrics found.

After assessing a national cohort of U.S. veterans with chronic hepatitis B, researchers found that only about half were on antiviral therapy, although they identified some potential factors associated with lack of timely treatment.

In this video, Sun Y. Lee, MD, MSc, an associate professor at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, discusses her recent review of the literature regarding hyperthyroidism and its clinical management.

WASHINGTON — Black children were more than twice as likely to die of sepsis as white children at one Arkansas hospital, according to research presented at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

In 2015, the CMS introduced the Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle, or SEP-1, as an all-or-nothing, pay-for-reporting measure.

Using physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling combined with observed clinical data, researchers determined that obesity can lead to reduced exposure and response to antiretroviral drugs.

A CDC advisory committee voted 10-4 on Wednesday to recommend administering a newly approved pentavalent meningococcal vaccine when vaccination with both a MenACWY and MenB vaccine are indicated at the same visit.

Desirability of outcome ranking, or DOOR, can be adapted and used successfully in hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia clinical trials, researchers reported.

Health care workers face an escalating mental health crisis that is made worse by increased harassment, according to results from a new CDC Vital Signs report.