April 6, 2016Wednesday obesitypatient care Managing obesity More physicians seek training and certification in obesity medicine Physicians want to learn more about the biological underpinnings of obesity, which affects more than one-third of U.S. adults.
March 25, 2016Friday house callpatient care Close to home Aging baby boomers, house call apps help revive lost practice Looking for a career change? DOs share the benefits and challenges of providing house call care to patients.
March 4, 2016Friday patient carephysician-patient relationshipstethoscope The Great Debate Is the stethoscope still the quintessential physician’s tool? Two hundred years after its invention, physicians debate whether the stethoscope is still at the heart of medicine.
March 3, 2016Thursday health appspatient caretechnology What’s going around Clammy with a chance of sniffles: New health apps track sickness hotspots Health surveillance apps are being touted as Doppler maps for disease. Do they live up to the hype?
Feb. 25, 2016Thursday patient careveterans News in Brief DO represents the AOA at briefing on arthritis’ impact on veterans Partnership with the Arthritis Foundation is the AOA’s latest effort at increasing the profession’s visibility on Capitol Hill.
Feb. 17, 2016Wednesday infectious diseasespatient care News in Brief President Obama seeks almost $2 billion to fight the Zika virus Request to Congress to fund research and diagnostic tests for the virus comes on the heels of first transmitted case in the U.S.
Jan. 28, 2016Thursday medical schoolpatient care News in Brief COMs collaborate to improve access to health care in Appalachia Consortium hopes to develop innovative training methods in an effort to improve health care in this medically-underserved region.
Jan. 21, 2016Thursday medical scribespatient carepractice management Increasing productivity Medical scribes help ease burdens as practices go paperless A medical scribe may be the person you’ve been looking for to help your care team be more productive.
Jan. 15, 2016Friday JAOApatient care Silent epidemic Researchers encourage screening for hepatitis C by patients’ birth year JAOA study finds few community health center patients born between 1945 and 1965 were tested for the silent killer.
Jan. 8, 2016Friday patient caretechnology By the numbers 3 tips for helping patients use health tracking app data Many patients are collecting data on health apps and trackers, but the information isn’t always put to good use. Here’s how physicians can help.