Practice Management News

SEATTLE — Veterans commonly acquire multidrug-resistant organisms during stays in Veterans Health Administration community living centers, researchers found.

SEATTLE — The first U.S. cluster of pediatric Candida auris cases was likely caused by shared mobile medical equipment that was not properly sanitized after being used for adult patients, an investigation found.

Today’s economic environment and market volatility have caused many DIY investors to reconsider working with professional financial advisors. Those who work with advisors also may be evaluating their advisor and investigating alternatives.

Infants born to people infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy were five times as likely to test positive for the virus from age 0 to 6 months during the omicron period than previous waves, according to research published in Pediatrics.

Lower vaccination rates led to a surge in cases of one type of vaccine-derived polio last year, according to a report published Thursday in MMWR.

An 84-year-old man reportedly died from rabies 6 months after being bitten by a bat and receiving timely rabies post-exposure prophylaxis.

The federal Physician Self-Referral Law — aka the Stark Law — is a federal statute designed to curb unnecessary utilization of certain health care services.

Vaccinating older adults for respiratory syncytial virus could reduce the burden of disease by millions, according to approximations made by a disease transmission model.

Pediatric asthma diagnoses decreased by more than 50% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to findings published in Respiratory Research.

The United States continues to have significantly higher excess death rates compared with similarly high-income European countries, and this gap widened during the pandemic, according to study results published in PLoS One.