Practice Management News

For this month’s Infectious Disease News cover story, we touched base with experts in transplant medicine and transplant infectious diseases to discuss recent challenges brought on by the pandemic and the country’s organ shortage crisis.

Antimicrobial stewardship interventions recommended by either female or male clinicians were equally accepted, according to a recent study.

A study of almost 4,000 people with HIV and sustained 2-year period of viral suppression found that they were unlikely to experience viral rebound over the next 2 years, supporting treatment as prevention as an HIV prevention strategy.

A review of nearly 250,000 doses of messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine administered to young children identified no serious side effects from the shots, according to results published in Pediatrics.

CHICAGO — The escalating prevalence of burnout among U.S. health care providers poses “a real threat” to public health, the U.S. surgeon general told ASCO Annual Meeting attendees.

President Joe Biden is set to announce former North Carolina secretary of health Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, as the next director of the CDC, according to multiple reports.

There were increases in rare pediatric intracranial infections over the past 3 years that coincided with notable spikes in respiratory viruses, although the infections remained rare, according to two reports published Thursday in MMWR.

Medicare patients who were treated by osteopathic and allopathic hospitalists received similar quality and costs of care, according to the results of research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

With the rapid rise of interest rates in the last year, many physicians might be interested and surprised to learn where extremely low rates still exist.

WASHINGTON — A test designed to rapidly determine sepsis probability in ED patients suspected of having an infection was found to be reliable, according to an abstract presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.