Emma Bascom

On the heels of a rise in private equity-owned practices, which can create unique challenges for physicians, major medical organizations have called for greater transparency and oversight.ACP recently released a position paper on the “growing involvement” of private equity and corporatization in health care. That involvement “raises important questions about its effect on cost,

Healio has launched a new special report to help clinicians navigate the diagnosis and treatment of chronic back pain.Chronic back pain is one of the most common conditions health care professionals see, but it can also be complicated, particularly when considering concerns around long-term pain management and opioid use. But Healio’s new special report — Chronic Back Pain: A Healio

A new rule will dramatically change how medical students can pay for their education, according to an expert.On May 1, the U.S. Department of Education released the Reimagining and Improving Student Education-Federal Student Loan Program Final Regulations (RISE) rule, which goes into effect July 1. The regulations for federal student loan programs will implement statutory changes included in the

The AMA adopted new AI policies in a bid to ensure that the technology supports evidence-based medicine, bolsters patient care and serves under a physician’s oversight, instead of replacing their discernment.According to an AMA press release, AI technologies could help with efficiency and synthesizing information, but there are still important concerns for bias, long-term impact on both

CMS has issued an interim final rule that implements new work requirements for adults on Medicaid.The new statutory requirement will apply to adults who are aged 19 to 64, not pregnant and “enrolled in the Medicaid adult group or in certain section 1115 demonstrations that provide minimum essential coverage to adult beneficiaries,” according to a CMS fact sheet. As of now, 43 states

Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or PMOS, is the new name for polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, following a global initiative to correct the condition’s terminology.One in eight women globally — or about 170 million — are affected by PMOS, according to a health policy paper published in The Lancet that announced the name change.

WASHINGTON — Having a birth plan in place was associated with improved maternal and neonatal outcomes, according to research presented at ACOG’s annual meeting. Giovanna Martin, a medical student at Faculdade Santa Marcelina in Brazil, and colleagues wrote that, in the 1980s, birth plans were developed to enhance a mother’s experience while reducing negative outcomes and

SAN FRANCISCO — Human-generated notes were deemed higher-quality and preferable to AI scribes in a new study that debuted today at the annual American College of Physicians meeting. Ashok Reddy, MD, MS, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a health services researcher at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound, presented the

If Medicaid work requirements enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are expanded nationwide, about half of adult beneficiaries could lose their coverage, according to experts.Because of the law, signed by President Donald J. Trump in July 2025, federal support for Medicaid will be cut by $930 billion over the next decade. Plus, for the first time in the program’s nearly 60-year history,

Wearing weighted vests while exercising has become one of the most popular fitness trends in recent years.The trend of walking with a weighted vest or backpack, also known as rucking, originates from military training, and is an effective, scalable, simple way “to build strength and endurance at the same time,” according to GORUCK, a rucking website. But it has suddenly skyrocketed in