Practice Management News

All silicone breast implants eventually require removal. The longer a person has these implants, the greater chance complications will develop, and many patients have reported "complete resolution" of all symptoms upon removal of the implants.

Women who underwent a single treatment session with vaginal laser surgery reported improvements to overactive bladder syndrome with few reported adverse outcomes, researchers reported in Menopause.

Researchers reviewed a decade of maternal and congenital syphilis cases at a Brooklyn hospital and identified two variables associated with infection: racial identities other than Black or white and low socioeconomic status.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, enacted on Dec. 29, 2022, includes the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022, which contains many provisions designed to expand retirement coverage, increase retirement savings and clarify retirement rules.

Because practice management systems and electronic health records originally were designed to support accurate billing for subsequent reimbursement, fundamental changes to practice patterns are slow to enter clinical practices.

CVD is responsible for approximately one in three deaths among women in the U.S. each year, yet only 38% of participants in clinical CVD trials are women, according to the American Heart Association.

Pfizer presented data for the first time publicly Thursday on its maternal vaccine candidate for respiratory syncytial virus, which was granted priority review this week by the FDA.

Allowing nurse practitioners full practice authority may help diversify the workforce and increase access to primary care, according to experts, but there are many factors in the benefit-risk balance to consider.

During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a temporary increase in unstable or unsafe living situations and intimate partner violence for pregnant people in the U.S., according to an analysis published in JAMA Network Open.

SEATTLE — Recently published recommendations for the prevention of pediatric HIV infection say people with HIV should be counseled about infant feeding prior to conception or as early as possible in pregnancy.