May 27, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Chiquita Brooks-LaSure was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as the new head of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.Brooks-LaSure, an Ob...

May 26, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Health care workers (HCWs) are more likely to test positive with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, and the risk for re...

May 26, 2021

TUESDAY, May 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As part of a multimodal analgesic regimen in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, duloxetine cuts opioid use compared with placebo, according to a stu...

May 19, 2021

TUESDAY, May 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention principal deputy director is retiring after 33 years with the agency.Anne Schuchat, M.D., joined the CDC i...

May 19, 2021

TUESDAY, May 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Tranexamic acid is not associated with an increased risk for complications in high-risk patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty, according to a study pu...

May 19, 2021

TUESDAY, May 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Brand-name competition has a variable impact on net drug prices, and price spikes initiated by manufacturers are relatively common and costly, according to tw...

May 19, 2021

TUESDAY, May 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Most U.S. hospitals remain noncompliant with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rule mandating that hospital chargemasters be publicly ava...

May 17, 2021

MONDAY, May 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Less than half of physicians now work in private practice, according to a report released by the American Medical Association (AMA).As part of the AMA Policy R...

May 17, 2021

FRIDAY, May 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The time and financial costs associated with participating in the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)...

May 13, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) has an incidence of 0.32 percent among hospitalized patients, and risk factors include hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disea...

May 13, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- More than 90 percent of health care workers and two-thirds of the general population currently have hand dermatitis, according to a study presented at the E...

May 13, 2021

WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The American Medical Association released a plan on Tuesday to confront structural racism inside the organization and the entire U.S. medical establishment....

May 13, 2021

Shared decision making (SDM) in knee osteoarthritis (OA) is essential to optimizing patient-centered care and involves clinicians and patients collaborating to make decisions using the best available ...

May 12, 2021

TUESDAY, May 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In a move to reverse Trump-era policies, the Biden administration announced Monday that the government will protect gay and transgender people against sex dis...

May 11, 2021

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For postmenopausal women after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), preoperative vitamin D deficiency may adversely affect early postoperative outcomes, according to...

May 11, 2021

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For postmenopausal women after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), preoperative vitamin D deficiency may adversely affect early postoperative outcomes, according to...

May 11, 2021

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who fill a prescription for an opioid medication after a dental procedure have an increased risk for overdose, as do their family members, according t...

May 11, 2021

MONDAY, May 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who fill a prescription for an opioid medication after a dental procedure have an increased risk for overdose, as do their family members, according t...

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...