Practice Management News

Recent efforts from major residency and fellowship programs in the United States have sparked discussion about health care workers unionizing.

Factors linked to clinically important physical health and function improvements for women during midlife include baseline health, lack of stressors, more physical activity, lower BMI and less medication use, researchers reported.

Among the various types of liability that physicians may face, including employee claims, HIPAA violations, cyber liability and slip-and-fall injuries, medical malpractice may be the most impactful.

Physicians have created a survey for health care workers to assess experiences with microaggressions, sexism, racism and other forms of discrimination at work, school, in patient environments or during interactions with patients’ families.

Both abortion- and contraception-related internet searches increased from the weeks before and the weeks after the Supreme Court Dobbs decision in June 2022, according to a retrospective cross-sectional study published in JAMA Health Forum.

In rheumatology, there is no shortage of conditions that are difficult to diagnose, with diseases like fibromyalgia and systemic lupus erythematosus sometimes taking years before being officially identified — leading to adverse outcomes.

Mehret Birru Talabi, MD, PhD, associate program director of the rheumatology fellowship training program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, spoke with Healio about challenges patients with rheumatology face with fertility, how their RA symptoms are affected during pregnancy, and what they can to help improve their symptoms after giving birth.

The United States met perinatal HIV elimination goals for the first time in 2019, according to a study led by CDC researchers.

Among women with a history depression, risk for postpartum depression was greater for those whose prior depression was associated with use of hormonal contraception, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Women with Medicaid experienced significantly longer new patient wait times for obstetrics and gynecology appointments compared with those with commercial insurance, according to a national mystery caller study.