Dec 17, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Schedule II opioids continue to be prescribed to high-risk patients 18 months after publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guid...

Dec 17, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing surgery, therapeutic suggestions played through earphones during general anesthesia can reduce postoperative pain and opioid use, a...

Dec 15, 2020

MONDAY, Dec. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Depression, but not physician burnout, is associated with suicidal ideation among physicians, while burnout is associated with increased self-reported medical...

Dec 11, 2020

FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is associated with mortality, even among individuals without diabetes, according to a study published online Dec. 8 in the Annals o...

Dec 11, 2020

THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Sleep-related impairment among physicians is associated with increased burnout, decreased professional fulfillment, and increased self-reported clinically s...

Dec 10, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a loss of life expectancy (LE) of 4.97 years, according to a study published online Dec. 9 in Arthritis & R...

Dec 10, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly half of U.S. adults do not seek health care for fear of a surprise medical bill, according to a survey released by the American Heart Association (AH...

Dec 08, 2020

MONDAY, Dec. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Globally, 2.41 billion individuals were identified as having conditions that would benefit from rehabilitation in 2019, representing an increase of 63 percent ...

Dec 08, 2020

MONDAY, Dec. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Female physicians spend more minutes per day in the electronic health record (EHR) than their male counterparts, according to a research letter published onlin...

Dec 06, 2020

FRIDAY, Dec. 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Single-position lumbar surgery (SPLS) improves operative efficiency among patients undergoing anterior-posterior lumbar fusion, according to a study published ...

Dec 03, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Women physicians in academic medical centers are less likely than men to be promoted to upper faculty ranks, according to a study published in the Nov. 26 i...

Dec 03, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- At a Special Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new policy to advocate for widespread adoption of teleh...

Dec 02, 2020

TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons are more accurate than patients in predicting two-year patient-reported outcomes following lumbar surgery, according to a study published online Nov....

Dec 02, 2020

TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Industry payments are associated with physician prescribing patterns, according to a systematic review published online Nov. 24 in the Annals of Internal Medi...

Nov 27, 2020

“There are important reasons to study chronic pain and PTSD together,” says Matthew J. Bair, MD, MS. Chronic pain and PTSD co-occur frequently. This comorbidity leads to significant adverse effec...

Nov 26, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to three criminal charges linked to the Oxycontin maker's role in the nation's opioid epidemic.In a virtual hearing Tuesday wi...

Nov 24, 2020

FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Even modest depression, anxiety, and catastrophizing are predictors of whether a patient later experiences improvements in pain relief following joint replace...

Nov 24, 2020

The annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology was held virtually this year from Nov. 5 to 9 and attracted participants from around the world, including rheumatology specialists, physician...

Nov 20, 2020

THURSDAY, Nov. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Displaying patient photographs in electronic health records (EHRs) reduces wrong-patient order entry (WPOE), according to a study published online Nov. 11 i...

Oct 26, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America white paper, published online Oct. 14 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, updated recommenda...