Practice Management News

During a 2022 mpox outbreak in a Nigerian tertiary care facility, several confirmed cases presented atypically, according to a recent assessment of cases.

Overdose deaths among high school-aged adolescents in the United States more than doubled between 2019 and 2020, researchers reported this week in The New England Journal of Medicine found.

Preliminary results from an ongoing FDA investigation found no evidence that weight-loss drugs cause suicidal ideations and aspirations, although the agency said it cannot rule out a risk entirely.

Older adults recently diagnosed with migraine were more than three times likely to be involved in a motor vehicle crash within a year compared with those who never had a migraine diagnosis, according to researchers.

Assessing formerly extremely preterm infants at a corrected age of 21 to 24 months is associated with higher odds of detecting a significant developmental delay than assessing them at an earlier time, a study published in Pediatrics found.

The CDC on Thursday urged physicians to be judicious in prescribing topical antifungals in light of the recent detection of antimicrobial-resistant superficial fungal infections in the United States.

Artificial intelligence models effectively identified patients with adverse social determinants of health within electronic health records, according to a study published in npj Digital Medicine.

“Why should I be investing in bonds when I can earn more than 5% on my cash?” Many investors, including physicians, are asking this question after being discouraged by losses they have experienced with bonds in recent years.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Avital O’Glasser, MD, about the challenges facing non-traditional scholarship, amplifying diverse voices in medicine and more.

Hearing loss was linked to a higher risk for dementia, and this risk was greater among people who did not use a hearing aid than those who did, a recent study in JAMA Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery found.