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Patients with scars from head and neck surgeries may benefit from dermatography (medical tattooing)

Dermatography Helps Lessen Appearance of Surgical Scars

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Pigments can restore more natural skin appearance that patients are happy with
Antimicrobial resistance remains a major public health threat

NIH: More Must Be Done to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance

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New government report says multipronged approach is needed
An intervention based on art therapy and clown visits can reduce children's anxiety at preoperative separation from parents

Art Therapy, Clown Visits Cut Children’s Preoperative Anxiety

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Intervention based on art therapy and clown visits can reduce pre-op anxiety at separation from parents
Hospitals are increasingly switching to an employment relationship with physicians

Hospitals Increasingly Employing Doctors, Effects on Care Uncertain

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Switch to employment model not linked to improvement in any of four composite quality metrics
The average annual premiums for single and family coverage remained stable in 2016

Average Premiums for Health Care Coverage Stable in 2016

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Family premium 3 percent higher in 2016 than 2015; no change in share of firms offering health benefits
A new sound-based therapy appears to reduce blood pressure and ease migraine symptoms

Sound-Based Therapy Can Reduce Blood Pressure, Ease Migraine

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Sound therapy balances brain signals, researcher says
Codeine is unsafe for children and should no longer be given to them

AAP Says Codeine Not Safe for Children, Urges Restrictions

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Doctors should avoid giving drug to children undergoing tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy
Advising patients with asthma to take probiotics does not reduce antibiotic use

Recommending Oral Probiotics Doesn’t Cut Antibiotic Use

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Advice to take probiotics has no effect for patients with asthma in U.K. primary care setting
A device that uses a small balloon to treat Eustachian tube dysfunction has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

FDA Approves Balloon Device for Eustachian Tube Dysfunction

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Designed to relieve pressure, pain, or clogged or muffled sensations occuring in the ear
A new set of recommendations has been developed for conduct and reporting of cost-effectiveness analyses

Recommendations Developed for Cost-Effectiveness Analyses

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Concept of reference case, set of standard practices that all analyses should follow is recommended