Staff News Writer

How are you successfully controlling your patients’ hypertension? Share your methods with your fellow physicians as part of the 2014 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Minority Health last week announced $3.2 million in grant awards to 13 organizations for supporting health coverage enrollment of racial and ethnic minorities.

The JAMA Career Center® presents physician volunteer and career opportunities, news and information relevant to the full spectrum of medical practice. Job postings are updated daily for virtually every specialty, practice setting and region in the United States.

An increasingly common payment method among health insurers offers these companies significant financial rewards while sticking physicians with all the associated fees and extra work.

If physicians are going to lead health care changes, they’ll need to take unconventional approaches, ask a lot of questions and support innovation, speakers emphasized at TEDMED 2014.

Physicians, health care leaders and innovators took on these tough topics at the annual health and medicine edition of TED, encouraging listeners to be open and honest with themselves in the practice of medicine in order to enhance the doctor-patient relationship.

A dozen experts—many of them physicians directly involved in medical education—presented an array of perspectives on the current state of GME and how to revise the system for the 21st century at a forum hosted by Health Affairs.