AHRQ completed three evidence reviews related to treatments for chronic pain. Final reports are available on the Effective Healthcare Website . Noninvasive Nonpharmacological Treatment for Chronic Pain (An Update) Nonopi...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking stakeholders' perspectives on and experiences with pain and pain management, including, but not limited to, the benefits and harms of opioid use. CDC invites inpu...
As the United States continues to face the unprecedented public health emergency from the COVID-19 pandemic, the tide is turning and some areas throughout the country are seeing a decline in cases. As states and localiti...
As the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic confronts the nation, the American Medical Association (AMA), AAPM, and other leading physician organizations and state medical societies today released a letter sent to con...
AAPM signed a joint letter that urges Congress to interpret eligibility for funding in the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act to include all ...
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued guidance to DEA-registered physicians providing new flexibility for physicians managing patients with opioid use disorder. The new guidance permits physicians and oth...
On April 3, CMS Administrator Seema Verma, MD of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and officials from the FDA, CDC, and FEMA participated in a call on COVID-19 Flexibilities. Several physician guests on the front li...
AAPM was among 12 medical specialty societies to jointly sign a letter sharing comments with Nordian Healthcare Solutions regarding the company's Local Coverage Determination for Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation for O...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing an expansion of its accelerated and advance payment program for Medicare participating health care providers and suppliers, to ensure they have the res...
Speaking at the University of Alabama, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health, shared his picks of 10 "areas of particular excitement and promise" in biomedical research, including improv...