Resistant & Refractory Hypertension: 9 Questions for Primary Care
How are you managing your patients with resistant or refractory hypertension? How do your strategies align with current guidelines? Try these 9 questions and find out.
COVID-19 Vaccines 2024-2025: Is America Ready and Willing?
COVID-19 vaccine myths of many types remain potent enough to raise public health experts' concerns about Americans' willingness to roll up sleeves this year.
Resistant and Refractory Hypertension: A Guideline Topline for Primary Care
Hypertension that is resistant or refractory to treatment increases the risk of comorbidity and cardiovascular risk. Click through this at-a-glance review of key issues.
21 Beliefs about AI in Health Care, from People Like Your Patients
AI is welcomed by US adults for streamlining the administrative complexity of getting medical care but not so much for replacing health care professionals themselves.
Best States for Health Care in the US: 2024
Which state retains the most medical residents? Or has the lowest cancer rate? Answers and more insights from a nationwide analysis, here.
8 Questions on Updates to the 2024 ACIP Adult Immunization Schedule
Do you know the ACIP-preferred influenza vaccine for adults aged ≥65 yrs? The cut-off age for HPV vaccination? The time between the 2-dose mpox series? More, here.
White Coat & Masked Hypertension: A Primary Care Guideline Topline
White coat and masked hypertension can be elusive and dangerous. Click through a topline look at recommendations from the 2017 ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines.
5 Obesity Drugs Worth Watching: 2024-2025
Incretin analogues, an oral glucose formulation that targets endogenous nutrient-sensing pathways and a cannabinoid receptor 1 antagonist are in the new mix.
10 States with the Lowest COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
Wyoming, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have the lowest percentage of population with shots in arms based on state population. Is your state among the other 7?
Update: ACIP 2024 Adult Immunization Recommendations
This summary of updates to the ACIP 2024 Adult Vaccination recommendations includes 4 new vaccines and new formulations for COVID-19 and influenza shots.
Women's Health: Best and Worst States Ranked on 32 Measures of Access, Quality, Outcomes
Maternal mortality nearly doubled between 2018 and 2022 in the US. The Commonwealth Fund ranks states on how well they care for women.
React to CVD Risk Factors: A Preventive Cardiology Guideline Topline
Based on guidance from the American Society of Preventive Cardiology, this topline summarizes risk factors and interventions to reduce the risk of major adverse CV events.
Elements of Preventive Cardiology: A Guideline Topline
Click through this topline on primordial and primary CVD prevention based on the American Society of Preventive Cardiology's clinical practice statement.
Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in Primary Care: What do Patients Think?
Find key results from a new survey examining Americans' attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about opioid use disorder treatment in primary care, here.
7 Drugs Approved for Primary Care: Q2 2024
ICYMI: A quick look at 7 key drugs FDA-approved in the second quarter for conditions commonly seen in primary care.
5 Questions on the ADA 2024 Standards of Care in Diabetes
This quick quiz tests what you know about updates to the 2024 ADA standards of care, which include guidance on antiobesity drugs and managing comorbid chronic disease.
ADA Standards of Care in Diabetes 2024: A Guideline Topline
For primary care clinicians, this Guideline Topline provides a summary of 2024 ADA Standard of Care updates that may support improved outcomes in your practice.
Can Clinician Empathy Affect Chronic Pain?
A clinician's empathy during a clinic encounter with a person with chronic pain can have a statistically significant impact on outcomes, a new study found.
Defining Long COVID: Highlights from the National Academy of Sciences Consensus Report
In part the National Academies describe long COVID as "a chronic, systemic disease state with profound consequences." The report provides a working definition.
Women's Preventive Services Guideline: 7 Questions
These 7 questions are based on the most recent update to the guidelines by the Women's Preventive Services Initiative, including supporting resources.