Delivery Dates: How Obstetricians Can Collaborate to Advance Patient Care
A Baylor College of Medicine study from 2017 found that women who deliver on the weekends – and...
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Answering Questions about Medicines & Pregnancy: The FDA Has Resources
Physicians play an important role in helping their pregnant patients make informed health choices,...
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CDC Update: Flu Season Finally Peaked
The 2017-18 influenza season peaked in early February and is now on the decline, according to a...
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Benefits of Peanut Consumption While Breastfeeding
Findings from recently published studies, including the LEAP study, have led to rapid acceptance...
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Talking to Teens About Vaccination
Despite increases in recent years, adolescent immunization rates in the United States fall short...
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MACRA: Proceed With Confidence at the Point of Care
We’ve been living in a MACRA world for some time now, and yet most physicians still aren’t...
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Creating Efficiency in the Patient Journey
The transformation to value-based care has placed tremendous focus on delivery of care as it...
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Expert-Based Opinions: A Supplement to, Not a Replacement for, Evidence-Based Content
Nationally recognized and highly regarded health systems have a variety of ways to expand the...
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Information Rx: The Missing Piece of Quality Care
The vast majority of healthcare takes place outside of a physician’s office. Consumers often care...
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Calling Responsible Parties to Task for their Role in the Opioid Epidemic
In October 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the opioid epidemic is a public health...
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Three Effective Ways to Pick Quality Improvement Targets
My first exposure to Lean as a quality improvement (QI) approach was at a well-known automotive...
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Three Ineffective Institutional Approaches to Quality Improvement in Healthcare
In 2012, there were estimates of waste in US healthcare amounting to $750 billion per year, or...
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Promising New Treatment for Rare Pregnancy Cancer Leads to Remission in Patients
Three out of four patients with the cancerous forms of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD)...
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#PWChat – Why Doctors Are Losing the Public’s Trust
Join us Wednesday, December 13 at 3:00pm ET for PART II of our live, interactive tweetchat with...
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2017 Diabetes Facts & Statistics
Diabetes costs the U.S. economy over $245 billion per year, making it the country’s most expensive...
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#PWChat Recap – Pseudoscience in Medicine: Steering Patients Toward Reliable References, Part II
Dr. Linda Girgis, MD, FAAFP joined Physician’s Weekly to co-host Part II in our #PWChat series, on...
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There is No Safe Amount of Alcohol During Pregnancy, New Study Shows
Any amount of alcohol exposure during pregnancy can cause extreme lasting effects on a child,...
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Hospitals, Third Parties, and Physicians: Opposing Roles in Containing Healthcare Costs
Patients do not have carte blanche when it comes to decisions about their medical care. The type...
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#PWChat Recap: How Mindset Affects Physical Health
Physician’s Weekly, along with Barbara Cox, PhD, co-hosted an informative discussion on how...
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