A survey published in JAMA Internal Medicine, revealed that 40 percent of doctors believe that the number of patients that visited them over a period of one month often exceeded safe levels. 36 percent of these doctors reported a …
A great deal of research suggests that physicians are not good at predicting who will misuse pain medication. AMA MedNews [More…] …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a draft guidance document to assist industry in developing new formulations of opioid drugs with abuse-deterrent properties. It describes the FDA’s current thinking about the studies that should be conducted to demonstrate …
A new study from The University of Texas at Austin reveals for most employees who work remotely, telecommuting increases work hours and blurs boundary between work and home.…
A new book entitled “Hooked on Games” is a story of a physician with a research background in neuroscience, who battled his own addictions with video games.…
All of the specialty journals in the JAMA network, as of Jan. 1, 2013, will drop the longstanding Archives designation from their titles in favor of the parent journal. Instead, the journals will go by the names: JAMA Facial Plastic …
A study published in New Media and Society Journal, finds that tweens who frequently use language adaptations — techspeak — when they text, performed poorly on a grammar test. Using shortcuts, such as homophones, omissions of non-essential letters and …
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for extended-release (ER) and long-acting (LA) opioid analgesics in the treatment of moderate to severe chronic pain. The centerpiece of the plan is …