Practice Management News

AUSTIN, Texas – Children and adolescents diagnosed with anxiety, depression or both had greater headache-related disability compared with those without, according to a poster presented at the American Headache Society annual meeting.

There was a “psychiatric boarding crisis” in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, as psychiatric services were not prepared to support the number of youths needing care, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Social isolation and loneliness were linked to an increased risk for all-cause and cause-specific types of mortality, according to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in Nature Human Behavior.

Youth with autism are three times as likely to have a co-occurring diagnosis of gender dysphoria than peers who do not have autism, according to findings from a study of more than 900,000 adolescents published in Pediatrics.

Few patients hospitalized for alcohol use disorder, or AUD, were treated with approved medications that could help to enable behavior change, a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed.

Medicine is a dynamic profession and physicians are at the forefront of health care innovation, consistently pushing boundaries of patient care and driving both industry and practice patterns forward.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 against President Joe Biden’s proposed student debt relief program, a decision that could impact health care professionals with significant student loans, an expert said.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the use of affirmative action programs during admissions processes at colleges and universities, potentially reducing the number of underrepresented students in medical education, experts said.

A new clinical report published by the American Academy of Pediatrics can help pediatricians identify intimate partner violence and aid those affected by it, an expert said.

Most parents showed a willingness for their child to have mental health screening assessments done in a primary care setting and were generally comfortable with screening topics, a recent study found.