SHM’s Awards of Excellence program honors members who’ve made exceptional contributions to hospital medicine in various ...

Bottom line: In this single-center retrospective analysis, addiction medicine consultation and prescription of MOUD or MAUD were associated with lower readmission rates in patients with OUD and AUD.

More than 300 current and former female physician assistants are suing Michigan Medicine, the health system affiliated with the University of Michigan, over accusations of wage discrimination.

For one, addiction medicine specialists are rare: currently, fewer than 2,500 physicians nationwide are certified in addiction medicine, and only 2,000 are certified in addiction psychiatry.

Would you see a physician assistant if a lead physician wasn't available? Massachusetts PAs want greater flexibility to deploy their skills amid the primary care crisis.

A new study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine and led by researchers from the University of California San Diego Qualcomm Institute and School of Medicine, reveals a dramatic increase in sports ...

An unusual aspect of the study was its setting: the emergency room. Addiction treatment usually didn’t happen in the emergency department, a place generally seen as reserved for acute medical ...

But the neurobiology of addiction is complex, says Mohammad Sarhan, MD, an addiction medicine physician at Caron Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment Centers.

Perry, who had been taking the drug six to eight times a day before he died, "believed deeply in eliminating the stigma" around addiction, the foundation said.

As Dr. Kenneth Morford, an addiction medicine physician and assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, told me, “If a patient qualifies for a medication like semaglutide and happens to have ...

Physician assistants are medical professionals trained to diagnose and treat illnesses in patients. Learn more about what a physician’s assistant does and when you might see one.