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In an effort to create a safer, more patient-friendly treatment system for opioid use disorder, providers and policymakers are analyzing shifting federal regulations and their potential impacts.The Coalition of Medication-Assisted Treatment Providers and Advocates of New York State (COMPA), a nonprofit membership organization, recently held a symposium to discuss changing federal regulations for

The CDC is strongly recommending men who have sex with men living in Florida get a meningococcal vaccine in response to an outbreak that has sickened 24 people and killed seven.The agency said it is “one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history,” and is working alongside the Florida Department of Health to investigate the outbreak.

At its House of Delegates meeting, the AMA adopted a policy that calls on states to expunge the criminal records of people who were incarcerated for cannabis-related offenses that were later decriminalized or legalized. Although the AMA opposes the legalization of cannabis, it supports “mitigating the collateral consequences” of cannabis-related crimes in states where it is now legal,

Climate change is a public health crisis threatening the well-being of all people, the AMA declared via a policy it adopted during the annual meeting of its House of Delegates.“The scientific evidence is clear: our patients are already facing adverse health effects associated with climate change, from heat-related injuries, vector-borne diseases and air pollution from wildfires, to

Cystoscopies for recurrent UTIs yield little clinical benefit for patients both with and without high-risk features, according to a study. Hunter Hasley, a medical student at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in New Jersey, presented the findings at this year’s American Urological Association (AUA) conference.

As the demand for primary care physicians rises across the United States, people in rural areas are experiencing barriers to access that others do not — but a value-based payment system could help, an expert said. John Gale, MS, a senior research associate for the Maine Rural Health Research Center, discussed how primary care could benefit from a new payment model at the National