Practice Management News

Infants born to people infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy were five times as likely to test positive for the virus from age 0 to 6 months during the omicron period than previous waves, according to research published in Pediatrics.

Lower vaccination rates led to a surge in cases of one type of vaccine-derived polio last year, according to a report published Thursday in MMWR.

Patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis who demonstrate female sex, antinuclear antibody positivity and a positive family history have a higher risk for autoimmune thyroid disease, according to data published in Pediatric Rheumatology.

Making key changes to pulse oximetry alarm defaults could help hospitals reduce nonactionable alarms, allowing staff to focus on actionable alarms, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The federal Physician Self-Referral Law — aka the Stark Law — is a federal statute designed to curb unnecessary utilization of certain health care services.

Pediatric asthma diagnoses decreased by more than 50% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to findings published in Respiratory Research.

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.

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.