Practice Management News

The Senate has passed legislation that, if signed into law, will lower the cost of some prescription drugs and health insurance in the United States.

Patients with COVID-19 had a higher risk for hospital-onset antibiotic-resistant infections compared with patients with influenza-like illness before the pandemic, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Long COVID increases children’s risk for several serious conditions, although the conditions remain rare, according to findings reported in MMWR.

Daily tiotropium via the HandiHaler device improved lung function but did not reduce frequency of exacerbations over 6 months in patients with stable bronchiectasis, according to results published in European Respiratory Journal.

Results showed professional soccer players in Italy experienced general fatigue, muscle fatigue and reduced metabolic power for several weeks after COVID-19 infection.

After receiving a lung from a donor with known peanut allergy, a transplant patient with no history of allergy developed a temporary sensitization to peanut, according to a case study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

During a September 2021 interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, comedian Hasan Minhaj referred to doctors of osteopathic medicine, or DOs, as “off-brand doctors” compared with their MD counterparts.

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in July.

The incidence of acute exacerbation was nearly one-third in patients with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease, researchers reported in Chest.

Tailored metered-dose inhaler education was more effective compared with brief intervention for improving asthma patients’ inhaler techniques, but those with low health literacy may benefit less, researchers reported in Respiratory Medicine.