Practice Management News

As of last year, around one in 100 children in the United States had ever had long COVID, according to survey findings reported by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

The U.S. government is offering its fifth round of free at-home tests for COVID-19, with four tests per household available at COVIDTests.gov as of Monday, Sept. 25.

HHS, through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, has awarded $45 million in grants to support multidisciplinary long COVID clinics and expand coordinated and comprehensive care.

The CDC has awarded $262.5 million in funding to develop and implement new tools to detect, respond to and mitigate future public health emergencies such as outbreaks and pandemics.

Using wet wipes to clean bedridden patients with catheters resulted in fewer catheter-associated UTIs, researchers in Spain reported.

An intervention undertaken by dozens of health centers reduced antibiotic use for pediatric conjunctivitis by up to 19% without increasing treatment failure, according to study findings.

President Biden’s administration has had a sharp focus on competition issues in health care mergers and acquisitions.

Rifampin-based regimens for treating Staphylococcus aureus native vertebral osteomyelitis were associated with lower risk of clinical failure, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

High rates of physician suicide are a devastating reality that require multiple solutions, according to experts.

When worn by health care personnel, a face shield was effective at reducing exposure to aerosol particles containing virus from a simulated coughing machine, researchers reported.