Practice Management News

The death of Lorna Breen, MD, FAEP, the New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital clinician who took her own life in April 2020, drew new attention to physician suicide, and led to an act of legislation that bears her name.

Moderna has announced that its COVID-19 vaccine was 93% effective, with “durable” efficacy lasting at least 6 months after administration of the second dose.

In a recent letter to Congress, 430 organizations urged policymakers to preserve access to telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries and advance permanent telehealth reform.

The AMA has announced the CPT codes for a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine if one is authorized or approved by the FDA.

Last year, we wrote about the five top financial mistakes Dr. Bhatia has seen in fellow physicians, especially at the beginning of their careers. We covered this for our Forward Thinking column in Orthopedics Today, a Healio publication.

Four papers offer new insight into long COVID symptoms, duration, onset and prevalence, with one paper documenting more than 200 symptoms of long COVID.

Patients with retinopathy had a higher prevalence of kidney disease and exhibited greater risk for incident chronic kidney disease, end-stage kidney disease and coronary heart disease, according to results published in Kidney Medicine.

Mayo Clinic was ranked the No. 1 hospital nationwide and received the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll for the 6th straight year, according to a U.S. News press release.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution committing the international community to eye care for the 1.1 billion people living with preventable sight loss by 2030.

Racial and ethnic minority groups were “markedly underrepresented” in outpatient practices across most medical specialties, and those disparities persisted even after researchers accounted for social determinants of access to care.