VIDEO: Secrets of success in a MACRA-based world
WASHINGTON – Are you ready for the way you are paid for seeing patients to change, and not just change, but change dramatically?
The value-based care system of reimbursement for primary care... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - May 5, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
VIDEO: Value-based care 101
WASHINGTON – Feel free to continue operating under a fee-for-service system, but according to Neil Kirschner, Ph.D., the senior associate for regulatory and insurer affairs at the American College of... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - May 5, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
VIDEO: Childhood obesity, particularly severe obesity, is not declining
BALTIMORE – Rates of obesity, particularly severe obesity, in children have not decreased since 1999, despite what recent studies may say, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - May 5, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
On the road to harnessing CRISPR gene editing to treat cancer
CRISPR technology, a simple, yet incredibly powerful tool for genetic engineering, is not only allowing cancer researchers to screen for drug targets more efficiently, but is also opening the door... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - May 3, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Hepatitis B vaccine immunogenic, safe in diabetes patients
The hepatitis B vaccine was immunogenic in adults with type 2 diabetes and had a safety profile similar to that of control subjects in a manufacturer-sponsored phase-IV trial published in Human... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - May 3, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
One-time AMH level predicts rapid perimenopausal bone loss
BOSTON – Anti-Müllerian hormone levels strongly predict the rate of perimenopausal loss of bone mineral density and might help identify women who need early intervention to prevent future... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - May 2, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Parathyroidectomy before kidney transplant may reduce complications
BALTIMORE – Performing a parathyroidectomy in kidney transplant patients before their transplant can reduce the risk of graft failure and provide other benefits, the findings of a retrospective study... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - May 2, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
TSH antibody levels predict Graves relapse after thionamides
BOSTON – Eighty-six percent of Graves disease patients with TSH receptor antibody levels of at least 2.0 mU/L at the end of thionamide therapy will relapse within 4 years, according to a <a... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - May 1, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
TSH antibody levels predict Grave’s relapse after thionamides
BOSTON – Eighty-six percent of Grave’s disease patients with TSH receptor antibody levels of at least 2.0 mU/L at the end of thionamide therapy will relapse within 4 years, according to a <a... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - May 1, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Sitagliptin does not reduce liver fat in NAFLD
BARCELONA – Contrary to expectation, sitagliptin did not reduce liver fat in patients with early diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial.... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - April 30, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Supreme Court case could expand false claims liability
A case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could expand physicians’ liability under the False Claims Act (FCA).
The case of <a... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - April 29, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
CMS promises streamlined, flexible program to replace meaningful use
Meaningful use would get a new name and an emphasis on flexibility under a proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
“We’re proposing today to replace meaningful use in the... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - April 28, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Study of twins quantifies diabetes, obesity link with psoriasis
The statistically significant association between psoriasis and both obesity and type 2 diabetes comes down to genetics, according to a large population-based study of twins.
Across the entire... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - April 27, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
No rise in serious HF seen in patients taking saxagliptin or sitagliptin
Neither saxagliptin nor sitagliptin, the two oral DPP-4 inhibitors most commonly used as antihyperglycemic medications, raised the risk of hospitalization for heart failure in a large... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - April 25, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Surgery for PHPT improves sleep quality
BALTIMORE – Research into how primary hyperparathyroidism and parathyroidectomy affect sleep quality has been limited, but investigators at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, reported that... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - April 24, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
