Practice Management News

Twenty-two U.S. retailers have received a civil money penalty complaint from the FDA for selling unauthorized Elf Bar/EB Design e-cigarettes, which is a “popular youth-appealing brand,” according to a press release from the agency.

Gender role nonconformity in childhood and adolescence was associated with diverse sexual orientation beginning in young adulthood, a decades-long study in Australia found.

Despite experts warning of the dangers of influenza, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus and pneumococcal disease this fall and winter, survey data shows that many U.S. adults underestimate the seriousness of these infections.

Identifying your personal and organizational values and building a community are all strategies to develop vitality in careers in medicine, according to a speaker at the Women in Medicine Summit.

The CDC last week recommended Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for pregnant people to protect newborns from severe RSV illness.

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.

Patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis who receive baricitinib demonstrate a “significantly” longer time to disease flare vs. placebo, according to data published in The Lancet.

Expanding newborn screening to identify genes associated with an increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders could exacerbate disparities, among other drawbacks, experts wrote in Pediatrics.

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.

A 5-day-old female is transferred from another hospital due to irritability and a worsening pustular rash. The mother’s pregnancy, labor and delivery was complicated by a group B strep-positive culture and vaginal candidiasis.