May 10, 2021

FRIDAY, May 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Following implementation of electronically sharing office visit notes with patients, more primary and specialty care clinicians agree the practice is beneficial...

May 07, 2021

THURSDAY, May 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- High- and low-risk trajectories are identifiable for youth following their first opioid prescription, according to a study published online April 22 in JAMA N...

May 06, 2021

TUESDAY, May 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Compared with nonphysicians, women physicians delay childbearing, with median age at first childbearing of 32 and 27 years, respectively, according to a study ...

May 03, 2021

FRIDAY, April 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Existing patients receiving opioid analgesics and buprenorphine for opioid use disorder have continued to receive medications during the COVID-19 pandemic, a...

May 03, 2021

“Migraine headaches affect more than 12% of the United States population, mostly females, and result in significant impairment of quality of life and loss of productivity,” explains Rushil Shah, M...

Apr 30, 2021

THURSDAY, April 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation reduces acute pain and opioid requirements in the week following orthopedic surgery, according to a pilot study p...

Apr 28, 2021

WEDNESDAY, April 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In a clinical practice guideline issued by the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Foundation and published online April 6 in Otolary...

Apr 27, 2021

MONDAY, April 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Clinician sex and local work culture may contribute more to burnout than electronic health record (EHR) usage, according to a study published online April 20...

Apr 27, 2021

MONDAY, April 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- All 26,000 Houston Methodist workers must get a COVID-19 shot by June 7 or risk losing their jobs, making it the first U.S. hospital system to make vaccinati...

Apr 26, 2021

FRIDAY, April 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The rate of work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WMSD) claims from overexertion among construction workers is highest for those aged 35 to 44 years, althou...

Apr 21, 2021

TUESDAY, April 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to epidural labor analgesia (ELA) is not associated with offspring risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a study published online A...

Apr 21, 2021

TUESDAY, April 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- About 20 percent of U.S. adults experience chronic pain, according to a study published online April 2 in PAIN.Robert J. Yong, M.D., M.B.A., from Brigham an...

Apr 21, 2021

TUESDAY, April 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The proportion of Black physicians has increased by a small amount since 1900, according to a report published online April 19 in the Journal of General Int...

Apr 14, 2021

TUESDAY, April 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Both use of fall risk-increasing drugs and mortality due to falls are on the rise in older adults, according to a study recently published online in Pharmac...

Apr 10, 2021

FRIDAY, April 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Black, Hispanic, and Native American people are underrepresented in 10 health care professions, according to a study published online March 31 in JAMA Network...

Apr 09, 2021

Disclaimer: The thoughts and ideas in this post are Dr. Tuchler's alone and do not represent Kaiser Permanente’s positions, strategies, or opinions.   A tsunami is building. Even a...

Apr 09, 2021

THURSDAY, April 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer incidence and death are expected to change by 2040, with breast cancer remaining the most common cancer followed by melanoma, then lung cancer, accor...

Apr 09, 2021

THURSDAY, April 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- More than half a million people have gained health coverage under a special sign-up window for Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance plans, the White House sa...

Apr 08, 2021

WEDNESDAY, April 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Americans' trust in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, an opinion poll finds. Researchers fr...

Apr 07, 2021

TUESDAY, April 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Prescribers and patients motivated 30.4 percent of all branded dispensing of multisource drugs in the Medicare Part D program in 2017, according to a study p...