Practice Management News

A study of pregnant people with syphilis found that substance use during pregnancy was nearly twice as common among those who delivered an infant with congenital syphilis than among peers who did not pass the infection to their baby.

An early return to school and other life activities following a concussion were associated with a lower symptom burden and faster recovery among children and adolescents, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

The FDA issued a complete response letter on the accelerated approval of donanemab for treatment of early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease, citing the limited number of patients with longer drug exposure data.

The percentage of those with schizophrenia who were uninsured decreased after the Affordable Care Act provisions were implemented, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.

Clinical notes and public records were shown to improve a machine-learning model’s prediction of suicide after psychiatric hospitalization, researchers wrote in JAMA Psychiatry.

Sleep disturbances were found to be prevalent throughout the course of psychosis, and different psychosis stages showed shared and distinct abnormalities, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.

The ACP has proposed a new process to streamline specialty referrals — a step that experts have called critical to fixing a massive issue in health care — but questions remain about the plan’s feasibility.

The FDA has granted tentative approval to Zydus Pharmaceuticals Inc. to market extended-release capsules of levomilnacipran, a treatment for major depressive disorder, the company announced in a press release.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC, has recently voted to recommend that Congress increase 2024 Medicare payments for physicians and other health services.

Quantitative pupillometry may be a reliable method of assessing clinically intoxicated patients in EDs, per a study published in the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open.