Grace Halsey

A mail campaign targeting adults with chronic conditions as well as their GPs increased the number receiving at least 1 shot by 9.5 percentage points.

ACP 2025: Foluso Fakorede, MD, discusses the importance of recognizing and screening for peripheral artery disease in primary care.

The only approved DHE nasal powder addresses persistent limitations of existing DHE formulations, including liquid nasal sprays and injectables, Satsuma stated.

Mepolizumab also cut annualized exacerbation rates by 21% across the full study cohort and by 31% in a subgroup of participants with chronic bronchitis only.

The burden of disease was particularly pronounced among adolescents, including significantly greater impact on quality of life and psychosocial interaction.

Occasional trouble finding a word reflects typical age-related brain changes; the changes that cause a person to refer to a watch as a "hand clock" are not the same.

Awareness of the psychological burden of eczema is improving, LeBovidge says, but if clinicians don't address mental health, patients and families will suffer in silence.

An EHR advisory that combined alerts to medical assistants with escalation to clinicians increased likelihood of hypertension control by a mean 18% per month.

A new survey found that the loneliness linked to a diagnosis of chronic illness saps motivation to seek regular care and almost universally to take medications as prescribed.

US adults want to know early on if they have Alzheimer disease, when treatment may slow it, and they are willing to participate in trials of new drugs.

Biomarkers in a pattern characteristic of Alzheimer pathology were identified in unspecified dementia, Parkinson dementia, and frontotemporal dementia.

Subgroup analyses found no significant difference in efficacy based on change in therapeutic action (ie, CGRP vs its receptor), doses, or intertreatment interval.

The AI program also correctly identified 90% of true positive cases, according to new data presented at the Society for Breast Imaging's annual symposium.

Authors found a dose-response relationship between MetS and dementia onset in the 4th decade; in those with all 5 components, risk of dementia was increased by 77%.

At current vaccination rates, measles could become endemic in the US again within 21 years; the threat extends to rubella, polio, and diphtheria, the study found.

The increased risk of depression when oral contraceptives were started following childbirth was "instantaneous," researchers wrote, and was ~50% greater than nonuse.

Phenomix will showcase new data on prediction of adverse events to GLP-1 RA therapy, a new obesity sub-phenotype, and approaches to improve surgical outcomes.

CGM is now standard of care in T1D and evidence is solid for a role in insulin-treated T2D; Thomas Martens, MD, shares thoughts on CGM growth in the next 3-5 years.

Martens, medical director of the International Diabetes Center (IDC) in Minneapolis, highlights an IDC resource that helps target problem areas in management of hyperglycemia.

While smoking in the US continues to decline, the American Cancer Society reports mixed progress in major cancer risk factors, prevention, and screening.

Misinformation about measles and the MMR vaccine has reached the majority of US adults and parents; most believe the vaccine is safe but many are still unconvinced.

GRAIL announced plans to present new support for the Galleri test's ability to simultaneously screen for multiple cancers plus its accuracy for cancer signal of origin prediction.

Martens, Director of the International Diabetes Center, in Minneapolis, highlights the differences between the 2 methods and what the research has found on each.

Suicide prevention falls squarely in the purview of primary care practitioners, says family physician Teresa Lovins, MD. She reviews an intervention with remarkable results.

The findings suggest that women who experience early menopause (age <40 vs >50 years) may constitute a sex-specific high-risk group for cognitive decline.

Interventions to protect or improve auditory health across the lifespan could be a cost-effective means of slowing the rapid rise of dementia in the US, authors wrote.

The global prevalence of AD in older adults increased by 107% between 1990 and 2021, with a greater burden among women and in high sociodemographic regions.

The CART ring was superior to the Apple Watch in automated AF detection with fewer unclassified ECGs, but neither device should serve as a definitive diagnostic tool.

Respiratory syncytial virus was deadly and untreatable across the lifespan until 2023 when the first vaccines were approved in the US. Follow the timeline, here.