Practice Management News

Health care professionals are more likely to experience mental health issues than other workers in the United States, but the stigma they face often deters them from seeking treatment, leading to tragic outcomes, a speaker said.

Most physicians receive a regular paycheck, and sometimes receive a lump sum such as a bonus. A proportion of both should be invested. How should one invest a portion of their regular paycheck?

Depictions of acute MI in popular film are underrepresentative of women and patients from racial and ethnic minority groups, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer have a low incidence for women with recurrent abnormal uterine bleeding, with predictive factors being older age, nulliparity, polyp history and shorter intervals between samplings, data show.

A federal judge has blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on new noncompete agreements with all workers in for-profit organizations.

Trust in health care diminished dramatically during the pandemic, and it will take multipronged interventions to restore that confidence, according to an expert.

Labor duration was independently associated with risks for adverse maternal outcomes, specifically intraamniotic infection, during second-trimester medication abortion, according to study results published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

In a final recommendation statement, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force said there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against the use of iron supplements during pregnancy.

In his keynote address at this year’s Ending Clinician Burnout Global Summit, Thom Mayer, MD, FACEP, likened the health care practitioners in the audience to the professional football players he routinely treats.

Cognition appeared associated with likelihood that individuals would return to work 2 years after breast cancer diagnosis, according to results of a case series study.