Conference Coverage
Conference Coverage
IHCC: Childhood migraine hurts school performance
Practice Economics
AMA HOD: Delegates back ICD-10 reprieve, but gun proposals draw fire
Physicians would have a 2-year reprieve from penalties while using the new ICD-10 coding set, under a resolution easily passed June 8 by the...
Conference Coverage
AAS: New approach underway to ID teens at high suicide risk
A federally funded effort to develop a screening tool designed to prevent youth suicide is underway.
Conference Coverage
SAEM: Pelvic CT may not be needed to diagnose intra-abdominal injury in children
CT limited to the radiographic abdomen – the region between the dome of the diaphragm to the top of the iliac crest – may be able to capture the...
Practice Economics
AMA launches online tool to help address physician burnout
Practice Economics
AMA HOD: Delegates call for ICD-10 grace period
Conference Coverage
Three lab tests predict serious bacterial infections in infants
A simple three-variable prediction rule can accurately predict which febrile infants younger than 2 months with fever who present to the emergency...
Conference Coverage
Decreased physical activity following car accident increases chance of persistent pain in older adults
Older adults who had a decrease in physical activity in the weeks following a motor vehicle collision were more likely to experience moderate to...
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Can women physicians have it all? Absolutely, says AMWA past president
AMWA past president Dr. Farzanna Haffizulla shares guidance and wisdom for other women physicians about how they can achieve a healthy work/life...
Conference Coverage
Worsening migraine in pregnancy linked to adverse outcomes
Key clinical point: Patients who present with acute severe migraine during pregnancy should be seen in a high-risk pregnancy clinic. Major finding...
Conference Coverage
IHC: In medication overuse headache, think ‘stress reduction’
Stopping the offending medications remains central to the successful treatment of medication overuse headache.