Practice Management News

Influenza vaccine efficacy during the 2022-2023 influenza season was “moderate” but still prevented many health care encounters and hospitalizations among adult patients, researchers determined.

Rates of morbidity and mortality among very preterm infants in the United States have continued to decrease but at a slower pace in recent years, and the rate of chronic lung disease has increased, according to study findings.

Nearly 20% of deceased patients in a Californian health care system were marked as alive with a serious illness in the electronic health record, resulting in hundreds of unnecessary outreach efforts, according to researchers.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has issued a draft recommendation encouraging physicians to provide or refer youth aged 6 years and older with a high BMI to intensive, comprehensive behavioral interventions.

As we approach the year end, many investors, including physicians, will review their portfolios and assess the last 12 months of performance.

Oral nicotine pouches did not relieve nicotine cravings as well as cigarettes after 5 minutes of use, according to a study published in Addiction.

A rise in child suicides in the United States may be connected to the nation’s opioid crisis, according to a study published in Demography.

In a survey of health care personnel, one-third of registered nurses and more than one-quarter of physicians reported making at least one error in adhering to guidance for personal protective equipment in the previous 2 weeks.

Global CV mortality and the prevalence of important cardiometabolic risk factors increased through 2022, with high BP remaining the strongest contributor, according to the 2023 update to the Global Burden of Disease special report on CVD.

The FDA has cleared BD MiniDraw, a capillary blood collection device developed by Babson Diagnostics and Becton, Dickinson and Company that allows clinicians to collect blood without a phlebotomist, according to a company press release.