Practice Management News

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.

An exeporfinium chloride nasal gel called XF-73 was safe for patients and effectively decreased the burden of nasal Staphylococcus aureus, which lessens the risk of surgical site infections, researchers found.

At the end of 2022, Congress passed a massive 4,155-page spending package that included SECURE Act 2.0, which provided numerous improvements to retirement savings and distribution rules.

The medical world has to overcome the perception that children are not susceptible to long COVID, physicians said during a U.S. News and World Report webinar on the topic.

Medical organizations are sounding the alarm after a federal judge ruled that it is unconstitutional to require insurers and health plans to cover preventive services recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force at no cost.

A survey assessing universal masking showed nearly all facilities represented planned to continue doing so, with the most common reasons being prevention of respiratory viruses and limiting the impact on staff.

There has been a rebound in cases of tuberculosis in the United States, according to the CDC, with the largest increase occurring among children aged 4 years or younger.

An analysis of tweets from the mpox outbreak in 2022 showed that most Twitter users felt fear and anger toward the outbreak, researchers said.

People with severe community-acquired pneumonia who were treated with hydrocortisone had a lower risk for death 28 days after diagnosis compared with those who received placebo, a phase 3 trial found.

The electronic surveillance definition for non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia had moderate correlation with the existing manual surveillance definition, suggesting electronic surveillance could be a “more practical” strategy.