Practice Management News

Orthopedic surgeons, like any health care service provider, desire appropriate compensation for the work performed. After years of specialized training and education, we offer a unique benefit to health care systems.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — People with interstitial lung disease living in rural areas do not appear to have greater risk for death, lung transplant, acute exacerbation or disease progression compared with those in urban areas, researchers reported.

COVID-19 rebound in people who have recovered from the disease is not due to an impaired immune response, according to a small study of patients treated with and without Paxlovid.

Experts say that people with HIV should be included in clinical trials for new tuberculosis vaccine candidates in the pipeline, according to newly written recommendations published in The Lancet HIV.

The CHEST Annual Meeting will be held Oct. 16 to 19 in Nashville, Tennessee, with a broad focus on bringing the pulmonology community back together in person.

A new screening tool, the zero-burden comorbidity risk score for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, led to earlier diagnosis of IPF and improved outcomes of disease-modifying therapies and other interventions, according to published data.

Early data from trials assessing the new Pfizer and BioNTech omicron-adapted booster vaccine show that the vaccine substantially increased protective antibodies against the BA.5 subvariant in adults.

Like their patients, physicians often become more concerned about long-term care coverage as they age.

The FDA has granted an emergency use authorization for booster doses of Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech’s omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccines for children and adolescents, both companies announced today.

Healio has won the silver award at the MM+M Awards for its entry, “The Power of Healio,” in the category of best health care professional media brand.