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What’s the Best Approach for Sustained Weight Loss? With nutritional, pharmaceutical, and surgical options available for obesity, clinicians are being called upon to make decisions about how to best help their patients lose weight and keep it off.
News, January 10, 2025
Are Patients On GLP-1s Getting the Right Nutrients? As GLP-1 RA use soars, experts are worried that patients may not be getting the right nutrients in their diets. How can clinicians support their patients’ nutritional needs?
News, January 10, 2025
Why Aren’t More PCPs Offering Contraceptive Services? Experts say the primary care workforce is well suited to meet patients’ contraceptive needs but the numbers of primary care physicians offering prescriptions and procedures is strikingly low.
News, January 09, 2025
MRI-Invisible Prostate Lesions: Are They Dangerous? MRI-invisible lesions are real. Experts debate what these lesions really mean for patient outcomes and care.
News, January 08, 2025
Jumping Jacks and Cold Water: Mental Health Tools for Kids Emotional lashing out, chronic worry, depression, and self-harm are some of the mental health issues pediatricians are presented with, and patients deserve more than a referral to a mental health specialist, experts said.
News, January 08, 2025
Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round? Have sobering studies on alcohol caused physicians to drink less themselves or changed the way doctors counsel patients on booze? The answer is complicated.
News, January 07, 2025
Drug Shortages: Does Canada Manage Them Better? Oncology drugs tend to “percolate to the top” of shortage lists that prioritize drugs of concern, said expert.
News, January 07, 2025
Using AI to ID Osteoporosis: A Medico-Legal Minefield? Artificial intelligence technology has identified many more patients with osteoporosis than institutions can handle.
News, January 07, 2025
New Trial Seeks to Pin Down Pediatric PAH Treatment Phase 3 open-label study will compare two protocols for children with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
News, January 07, 2025
RSV Vaccines and Treatments Face Global Access Hurdles Vaccines and monoclonal antibodies are reducing RSV hospitalizations, but high costs and limited access in low-income countries hinder global epidemiology changes.
News, January 07, 2025
Kidney Transplant Program Drops Patient Notification Rule The CMS finalized its kidney transplant program designed to increase kidney transplants but dropped a rule requiring centers notify patients of kidneys declined on their behalf.
News, January 07, 2025
Alert Human Bird Flu Death in US: Public Health Analysis Continues Public health officials maintain that risk to general public remains low.
News Alert, January 07, 2025
In HCV, Starting Treatment Trumps Staging for Liver Fibrosis Biomarker staging of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C was cost effective, but so was initiating treatment without testing.
News, January 02, 2025
Nonpharmacologic Options Can Manage Hot Flashes Both cognitive-behavioral therapy and clinical hypnosis are among the most effective options not involving medication.
News, December 31, 2024
An Abundance of Nonalcoholic Options Available It’s increasingly easy to have nonalcoholic drinks at a bar and even to find a bar that serves only nonalcoholic drinks.
News, December 31, 2024
Time for New Guidance on Poststroke Depression, Anxiety? Depression and anxiety are among the most common complications of stroke. Is it time for new treatment guidance?
News, December 31, 2024
Colchicine Guards Heart While Fighting Gout Flares Colchicine prophylaxis during initiation of urate-lowering therapy in patients with gout was associated with a reduced risk for cardiovascular events.
Clinical Summary, December 31, 2024
10 Kidney Transplants in 2 Days: Coordination Matters Vanderbilt University Medical Center rose to the challenge of performing 10 kidney transplants over a holiday weekend.
News, December 31, 2024
Is BMI Good for Anything These Days? Yes — At Least for Now By itself, it’s not enough, but body mass index has years of evidence behind it and still has a place in clinical assessments, experts say.
News, December 31, 2024
Axolotl Shows Promise in Unlocking Skin Regeneration Secrets After studying the axolotl for 8 years, researchers are developing a line of cosmeceutical and over-the-counter products containing urodele collagen extract derived from the creature’s neotenic tissue.
News, December 30, 2024

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