Recent findings suggest physicians and healthcare practitioners continue to overuse and overprescribe various medical tests and treatments, according to an Oct. 2 study published in JAMA.
Integration & Physician Issues
Officials unearthed a copper time capsule with surgical tools and photographs from 1906 at the site of the former Omaha, Neb.-based Methodist Midtown Hospital, according to Live Well Nebraska.
University of Alabama Birmingham's football team will honor the children and families of Birmingham-based Children's Harbor Family Center by wearing the names of patients on the back of their jerseys during their homecoming game Saturday.
Los Angeles-based Keck School of Medicine at USC Dean Rohit Varma, MD, resigned from his post Thursday, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Physician specialist Medicare Part B payment adjustments could fluctuate by up to 16 percent positively or negatively under the 2018 proposed rule for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, according to an analysis from Avalere, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting…
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A gunman opened fire during a country music festival in Las Vegas Oct. 1, leaving 50-plus individuals dead and 500-plus people injured. The experience proved traumatic for all parties involved, including the healthcare professionals near the site of the…
Paula Gregory, DO, resigned from her position as dean of the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences College of Osteopathic Medicine in Joplin, Mo., according to The Joplin Globe.
When Wanda Valakos, RN, couldn't get in touch with her father or her sister in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, her employer — Tampa, Fla.-based James A. Haley Veteran's Hospital — stepped in to help, according to ABC Action News.
Tampa-based University of South Florida Health revealed plans to send a dozen of its physicians to Puerto Rico to relieve rural physicians on the island for the first time since Hurricane Maria hit late last month, according to CBS-10 News.
The American College of Physicians is calling for federal action on firearms following Sunday night's mass shooting in Las Vegas.