Latest News
From the Journals
Opioid prescriptions following Mohs surgery dropped over the last decade
The four opioids obtained most during the study period were hydrocodone (55%), codeine (16.3%), oxycodone (12%), and tramadol (11.6%).
Feature
New data illustrate pandemic pivot to telehealth by patients, physicians
Psychiatrists, dermatologists, urologists, and primary care physicians were among the highest users of teleconferencing for patient visits 6...
From the Journals
Predicted pandemic retirement of many physicians hasn’t happened
A new JAMA study suggests that a fairly low percentage of doctors have left practice because of COVID-19, contrary to numbers in some surveys.
From the Journals
Study finds paying people to participate in clinical trials is not unethical
Researchers examine how varying cash incentives affect clinical trial recruitment, assessment of risk, and perception of coercion.
Feature
MDs doing wrong-site surgery: Why is it still happening?
“When they make a wrong-site error, usually the first thing they say is, ‘I never thought this would happen to me.’ ”
Feature
Greater portal use gives patients access, doctors headaches
Patients who are encouraged by their doctors to use portals are more likely to do so, meaning more access for patients, and, in some cases, more...
Guidelines
AAOS updates guidelines for nonoperative knee OA treatment
The updated recommendations factor in research updates from the last 10 years.
Latest News
Top questions answered about COVID-19 boosters for your patients
“The biggest concerns are that everyone wants it and they don’t know where to get it.”
Latest News
Doctors preyed on homeless for slip-and-fall schemes; more
Over the years, the scam netted the bosses more than $31 million from city businesses and their insurance companies.
Latest News
CDC chief overrules panel, OKs boosters for health care workers
Panelists “did not buy the need in occupational or institutional settings.”
Latest News
New COVID-19 strain has reached the U.S.
The CDC has not classified R.1 as a variant of concern yet but noted it has “several mutations of importance” and “demonstrates evidence of...