Practice Management News

Informing patients of the benefit-harm balance associated with mammography screening is beneficial and did not hinder overall screening decisions, according to results of a national probability-based U.S. survey.

The NIH announced that it has invested $30 million over 2024 and 2025 to pilot a national primary care research network that will integrate clinical research into community-based primary care.

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Stefanie Simmons, MD, FACEP, chief medical officer of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, discusses the Frontline Connect toolkit.

The Savings on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan was introduced in 2023 by the Biden Administration and replaces the Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE) program. SAVE continues to evolve with new benefits for student loan borrowers.

Long-acting injectable PrEP is feasible and acceptable to both men and women, according to a study presented at the AIDS 2024 meeting in Munich.

In a meta-analysis of trials of blood pressure-lowering interventions, those led by pharmacists and community health workers resulted in more BP lowering than those led by other professionals, researchers reported.

More than 70 million adults — or one in four — in the United States reported having a disability in 2022, according to a press release from the CDC.

Most physicians who are reluctant to treat addiction cited poor training and other institutional factors as major reasons for their hesitancy, a systematic review in JAMA Network Open showed.

In this edition, atezolizumab benefits PD-L1-selected patients with NSCLC, risks persist with e-cigarette use after quitting tobacco smoking and more.

There was a combined 20% increase in six antimicrobial-resistant hospital infections in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the number of clinical cases of Candida auris increased fivefold, according to the CDC.