Practice Management News

INDIANAPOLIS — Greater variability in sleep duration and sleep onset were risk factors for academic or disciplinary issues among adolescents, according to preliminary research.

CHICAGO — The escalating prevalence of burnout among U.S. health care providers poses “a real threat” to public health, the U.S. surgeon general told ASCO Annual Meeting attendees.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A literature review of opioid use disorder treatment in correctional facilities found medication-assisted treatments effective but underutilized due to scarce training and resources. “This review points out the situation and deficiencies in medication-assisted treatments for opioid use disorder in correctional facilities throughout the [United States],” Thersilla Oberbarnscheidt, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, told Healio at the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology annual meeting

I want to reflect on a recent patient I admitted: a woman in her 40s who presented with an intractable headache.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Telepsychiatry may be a safe and effective tool to treat bipolar disorder in adolescents and adults, but deeper research is needed, according to a poster at the American Society of Psychopharmacology annual meeting.

About 58% of pharmacies reported availability of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder at the time of patients’ requests, according to researchers.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. —Treatment with psilocybin significantly reduced symptoms at 8 weeks in patients with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, according to a poster at the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology annual meeting.

Medicare patients who were treated by osteopathic and allopathic hospitalists received similar quality and costs of care, according to the results of research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Psilocybin therapy is associated with relaxed and revised negative self-beliefs that lead to acute neural entropy, according to a presenter at the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology annual meeting.

With the rapid rise of interest rates in the last year, many physicians might be interested and surprised to learn where extremely low rates still exist.