Practice Management News

A study found an increase in children diagnosed with anxiety during office visits in a recent 12-year period but a decrease in the proportion of office visits that included therapy, according to results published in Pediatrics.

Over three in five affected children do not receive mental health services within 6 months of experiencing a firearm injury, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

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.

A new index that takes neighborhood and community conditions into consideration could be a useful measure for identifying preterm birth risk, a study published in JAMA Network Open found.

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.

Jeffrey R. Starke, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.

Youth in the United States have increasingly undergone metabolic and bariatric surgery to lose weight in recent years, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

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.