Practice Management News

More than 40% of healthy mothers recruited for a study testing fecal transplantation for babies born by cesarean section tested positive for potentially harmful pathogens, Finnish researchers reported.

The Biden administration has declared xylazine-laced fentanyl an “emerging threat” to the United States — the first time an administration has made such a declaration.

A federal judge in Texas recently ruled that a mandate of the Affordable Care Act requiring employers and insurers to cover certain preventive services recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force at no cost is unconstitutional.

The rate of nonmedical use of prescription stimulants is as high as more than 25% in some U.S. secondary schools, a study found.

In running a medical practice, like any business, the easiest thing to do is stay the same size, neither shrinking nor growing significantly.

President Joe Biden plans to nominate NCI Director Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, FACS, FASCO, to serve as director of the NIH, according to published reports.

According to Benjamin Maxwell, MD, the new division chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, responding to pediatric mental health issues often starts in the pediatrician’s office.

Mutations have allowed SARS-CoV-2 to evade previously effective treatments and preventives that have become a crucial tool for reducing severe COVID-19 and have made treating outpatients with COVID-19 more complicated.

Children aged younger than 3 years receiving a lung transplant have different diagnoses, shorter wait times and comparable long-term survival to older patients, according to a study published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

The AAP has published an updated version of its policy against tobacco and nicotine products, which includes a recommendation that pediatricians help prevent use among children.