Updates on COVID-19 Treatment Recommendations
As the new school year approaches, it is important to remember the need to continue […]
MSSNY Congratulates Rep. Jefferies
As you are likely aware, there is increased circulation of several respiratory viruses in recent weeks, including RSV, the Flu and COVID 19, especially among our pediatric population. The Department of Health is monitoring regional hospital capacity and is engaging hospital and health care systems that may be seeing larger than normal patient volumes in their emergency departments and inpatient units. […]
MSSNY Pulse: November 18, 2022
Message from MSSNY President Parag Mehta, MD: Happy Thanksgiving! Colleagues: This past weekend, MSSNY Delegates to the American Medical Association (AMA) Interim Annual Conference successfully brought numerous resolutions before physicians from around the country (see article below for details). Approximately two dozen delegates and alternates from New York attended the AMA Conference in Honolulu,
MSSNY Pulse: November 4, 2022
Message from MSSNY President Parag Mehta, MD: Let's All Make Our Voices Heard on Tuesday, November 8 Colleagues: Early voting leading to Election Day on November 8 is already underway. New Yorkers will elect a Governor, an Attorney General, a Comptroller, a US Senator, 26 US Representatives, and 213 NY state legislators. As US citizens,
New CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain
This guideline provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged ≥18 years. It updates the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain — United States, 2016 (MMWR Recomm Rep 2016;65[No. RR-1]:1–49) and includes recommendations for managing acute (duration of 3 months) pain. The recommendations do not apply to pain related to sickle cell disease or cancer or to patients receiving palliative or end-of-life care [...]
Antibiotic Awareness Week – November 18-24
The New York State Department of Health is reminding New Yorkers that the overuse and misuse of antibiotics are key factors leading to antibiotic resistance. So, while it is tempting to ask a health care provider for antibiotics to treat cold, flu, and other viral illness, it is best to leave such decisions to your provider, as antibiotics only work on bacterial infections. That's the message on a new poster the Department is making available to observe U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week, which runs from November 18 to 24 [...]
Antibiotic Awareness Week Superbug Superheroes Poster Request Form
he New York State Department of Health is reminding New Yorkers that the overuse and misuse of antibiotics are key factors leading to antibiotic resistance. So, while it is tempting to ask a health care provider for antibiotics to treat cold, flu, and other viral illness, it is best to leave such decisions to your provider, as antibiotics only work on bacterial infections. That's the message on a new poster the Department is making available to observe U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week, which runs from November 18 to 24 [...]
