Navigating GLP-1 Medication Access: Coverage Challenges, Emerging Cash-Pay Options
ACP 2025: Laura Davisson, MD, outlines how PCPs can navigate GLP-1 medication coverage issues and why to consider recent cash-pay options.
Eisai Presents Real-World Lecanemab Data at AD/PD 2025 Confirming Phase 3 Clinical Trial Findings
In addition to support for phase 3 CLARITY AD findings, new evidence was presented supporting lecanemab safety and efficacy in ApoE ε4 carriers and non-carriers.
Bringing Mental Health into Primary Care: A Conversation with Matthew Press, MD
ACP 2025: Dr Press explains how primary care clinicians can implement the collaborative care model to integrate mental health services, improve outcomes, and navigate reimbursement.
Alphyn Biologics Initiates Phase 2b Trial of Botanical Drug for Atopic Dermatitis
The investigational botanical zabalafin hydrogel has shown antipruritic, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties, addressing the multifactorial nature of AD.
ASCVD in Women is Different: A Review of Pathophysiology, Risk Factors, Presentation
ACP 2025. Karol E Watson, MD, PhD, highlighted how traditional approaches to CV care have poorly addressed the unique presentations, risk factors, and pathophysiology of heart disease in women.
Guselkumab (Tremfya) Gains FDA Approval for Crohn Disease: Daily Dose
Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.
CVD Prevention in Older Adults: Crucial and Also Controversial
ACP 2025. Harvard gerontologist and preventive cardiologist Ariela Orkaby, MD, MPH, highlighted the many nuances required in the cardiovascular care of the aging population.
Shared Decision-Making in Lung Cancer Screening: A Collaborative Approach
ACP 2025: Kim Sandler, MD, explains how primary care physicians can use shared decision-making to guide patients through lung cancer screening, emphasizing risk, benefit, follow-up, and smoking cessation.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis Prevalence and Care are Persistent and Significant: New Scoping Review
Black children were 2.4 to 4.1 times more likely to experience early-onset and persistent disease than White peers and much more likely to require urgent care for their AD.
Benefits of Lung Cancer Screening: A Conversation with Kim Sandler, MD
ACP 2025: Kim Sandler, MD, sat down with Patient Care to discuss the benefits of lung cancer screening, citing a 20% reduction in lung cancer mortality with annual screenings.
Trontinemab: Roche Announces Phase 3 Development Program for the mAb in Adults with Early Alzheimer Disease
Using the proprietary Roche Brainshuttle technology, trontinemab leads to deep, rapid amyloid plaque reduction with a favorable safety profile.
FDA Approves Gepotidacin for Treatment of Uncomplicated UTIs: Daily Dose
"Allergic to Everything"
ACP 2025. Scripps Clinic's John M Kelso, MD, offered topline updates on all types of allergies including a step-by-step on how to "delabel" patients identified as penicillin-allergic.
Peripheral Arterial Disease in the US: Amputation is Not the Answer
Foluso A. Fakorede, MD, sketched a disturbing picture of recognition and management of PAD in the US, highlighting stark racial and ethnic disparities and making an urgent call to action.
Colorectal Cancer Screening in 2025: Disparities Remain Persistent and Significant
The highest CRC mortality rates occur at the “intersection of race, place, and class," Rachel Issaka, MD, MAS, told internal medicine clinicians at the annual ACP meeting.
Switching to Tirzepatide Outweighs Escalating Dulaglutide Dose in T2D: SURPASS-SWITCH Trial
Breaking research presented at ACP Internal Medicine 2025 showed that switching GLP1-RAs resulted in better glucose and weight control among adults with inadequately controlled T2D.
Lung Cancer Screening: A Missed Opportunity for Early Detection
ACP 2025: Kim Sandler, MD, discussed the latest screening guidelines, real-world challenges in implementation, and the essential role of shared decision-making.
Prediabetes is Not A Benign Condition, Warned Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, MSc, at ACP 2025
Dagogo-Jack reviewed alarming data on the damage prediabetes can inflict even decades before a diabetes diagnosis and offered guidance to the internal medicine audience.
Universal Syphilis Screening in the ED Outperforms Targeted Approaches: Daily Dose
Alopecia Management in Primary Care: Expert Insights from ACP 2025
William Lewis, MD, discussed the importance of photo-documentation, referral indicators, efficacy of various treatments, and other topics.