Practice Management News

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.

Smaller airway structures among women were associated with increased risk for chronic lung diseases including COPD, according to secondary analyses of the COPDGene cohort published in Radiology.

The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative — or WPSI — issued new guidelines for preventing weight gain in women aged 40 to 60 years.

An estimated 162.9 million women globally had an unmet need for contraception in 2019, with those aged 15 to 19 years with the highest unmet demand, an analysis published in The Lancet showed.

During a volatile market environment like we are in today or the steep market pullback at the onset of the pandemic in 2020, many investors, including physicians, feel a powerful drive to act in response.

The detection, recognition, monitoring, referrals and management of chronic kidney disease significantly differs between men and women, according to data published in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Children conceived through assisted reproductive technology — or ART — were “shorter, lighter and thinner” compared with naturally conceived children at birth through early adolescence, data published in JAMA Network Open showed.

We are on the cusp of taking some of the largest steps in recent history to make medicines more affordable for our patients, and it is critical that we successfully pass the legislation needed to achieve this as an issue of health equity.

Having a diverse registered nurse workforce was associated with a lower risk for severe adverse maternal outcomes during delivery, data in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM showed.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was named the best hospital in the United States for OB/GYN care by U.S. News & World Report.