Objectives Elective non-emergent surgical wait times have increased across countries such as Canada, straining operating room ...

New study finds nearly 10% of internal medicine residents report a disability; the American Medical Association updates maternity care billing codes; and Texas joins autism trial network.

CMS proposed a rule July 2 that would revise Medicare payment rates for HOPDs and ASCs starting in 2027. Here are five things ASC leaders need to know. 1. More surgeries will shift to ASCs. The rule ...

A law meant to end surprise medical billing has led to large paydays for some surgical assistants, who can earn far more than ...

The focus on teaching students how to code—a big emphasis for years—is now expanding to showing them how artificial intelligence works. Code.org, one of the major K-12 computer science education ...

The document is long, running 192 pages in total, but is missing entire sections, including a conclusion and executive summary. It is also, in a word, bad. It is poorly written, poorly researched, and ...

Last month, 40 policy and labor organizations took their fight for a federal framework to protect workers from AI disruptions to Capitol Hill. Led by the Economic Policy Institute, the AFL-CIO Tech ...

For a very long time, bariatric surgery, in which doctors removed a portion of the stomach, was the standard procedure for helping patients lose weight and manage obesity, alongside metabolic ...

About The Study: This study found a profound decrease in the utilization of metabolic bariatric surgery, with a 34.1% decrease from 2022 to 2024, while glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1) ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Healthcare technology has changed rapidly in recent years. At Southcoast Health, the urology department began using robotic-assisted surgery about two decades ago and ...

The number of metabolic and bariatric surgery procedures in the United States dropped below 200,000 in 2024 for the first time since 2020, a more than 20% decline from the prior year, according to new ...

Programming languages shape how software, apps, and websites are built, making them one of the most important skills in the modern digital world. With industries shifting toward automation, AI tools, ...