Health Care

Health care costs and resource use were higher for patients with immunoglobulin A nephropathy who were at high-risk proteinuria and had decline in kidney function, newly published data show.

Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, FAMIA, FASA, was recently sworn in as president of the AMA.

Most medical practices subject to data security regulations of the HIPAA Security Rule have adopted administrative, physical and technical safeguards for electronic protected health information in accordance with the HIPAA Security Rule.

A proposed bill to make ordering contact lenses online safer by banning sellers from verifying prescriptions through robocalls has earned the praise of the Health Care Alliance for Patient Safety.

More careful patient selection for prostate biopsy would reduce health care pollution associated with the procedure, according to study results published in European Urology.

CHICAGO — Patients with tardive dyskinesia reported greater impact on quality of life than health care providers, according to a poster at the International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders World Congress.

SAN DIEGO — Health care providers should be “concerned and alarmed” that WHO has declared climate change as the single greatest health threat to humanity, according to a speaker here.

You might remember our earlier blog post on the Physician Self-Referral Law, aka the Stark Law.

Young adolescents with genetic skin conditions encountered worse transition readiness compared with their healthy counterparts and others with chronic conditions, according to a study.

A 15-month analysis of conversations regarding pediatric obesity among health care professionals online showed that new clinical guidance from the AAP spurred significant debate.