TLM 2023: The burden of CAD is similar between persons with hepatic steatosis at low and high ASCVD risk, but rate of MACE is higher in the low-risk population.

TLM 2023: Use of rifaximin significantly reduced mean number of OHE episodes as well as hospital contacts, including ED visits and admissions.

TLM 2023: Investigators found that the protective effects of statin therapy against late stage liver disease increased with age older than 51 years.

TLM 2023: Relying solely on a primary diagnosis for overt hepatic encephalopathy underestimates the actual rate, length of stay, and costs of OHE hospitalizations.

TLM 2023: In participants with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, retatrutide 8 mg and 12 mg resolved steatosis in >85% of subjects.

NAFLD, a term coined in the mid-nineteenth century but never an accurate name for the diseases it now stands for, was ready to go, agreed international experts.

The shift in naming for diseases historically known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease will be top of mind at The Liver Meeting 2023. Get a quick look at why.

We took The Liver Meeting's 11 journey maps to educational sessions and focused on 4 that will be of interest to primary care.

Listen to our latest podcast episode with Heather Yun, MD, for details on emerging pathogens, the role of primary care clinicians in the effort to rein in antimicrobial resistance, and more.

IDWeek 2023: Infectious disease specialist, Gopi Patel, MD, discusses universal masking in health care settings.

Clinicians must remember the point of vaccines was not to prevent infection, but to decrease severity of illness, says infectious disease specialist Gopi Patel, MD.

Gopi Patel, MD, emphasizes the importance of promoting vaccination and infection prevention measures among fellow clinicians, as well as patients, this season.

IDWeek chair Heather Yun, MD, observed that "primary care clinicians are out in front of all things," and that job is big and it's hard.

IDWeek 2023 chair Yun points to climate change and other human-driven devastation of the biosphere as the global threats that will cause disease at local levels.

IDWeek 2023. Nirsevimab efficacy was significant across infant subgroups in preventing hospitalization for RSV-LRTI during a first RSV season.

IDWeek 2023. New study found just slightly more than half of prescriptions for cabotegravir for HIV PrEP resulted in at least 1 injection, suggesting limitations in use and access to the injectable HIV integrase inhibitor.

IDWeek 2023: In a large cohort of people living with HIV, those switching from oral ART to long acting CAB+RPV were more than 4x as likely to adhere to the regimen.

IDWeek 2023: Adolescents expressed a preference for a combination vaccine covering serogroups A, B, C, W, Y of invasive meningococcal disease, reported researchers.

Findings underscore the persistence of disparities in meningococcal vaccination coverage in the US, particularly for vaccination against serogroup B.

IDWeek 2023: Leading physician scientists will headline plenary sessions and named lectureships on topics ranging from antibiotic stewardship to artificial intelligence.