Grace Halsey

When asthma and COPD patients have a continuous relationship with a single provider, ED visits/hospitalizations go down, survival goes up, finds a new systematic review.

Medicare Advantage plans may cut treatment corners to avoid more costly but more effective and targeted therapy for diabetes patients.

The FDA's move could potentially improve Paxlovid access for patients at high risk for severe COVID-19 who have limited access to health care.

Less than 7% of the US population has "optimal" cardiometabolic health, with declines over 20 years significantly affecting racial/ethnic populations.

Drs Mikhail Kosiborod and Neil Skolnik discuss this unique moment in the history of T2D management that offers treatments to address its broad cardiometabolic impact.

In persons with COPD, seasonal influenza and PPSV23 vaccines, separately or together, reduced the risk for COPD- and pneumonia-related hospitalizations.

Suicidal ideation affects 1 in 15 physicians and job-related stress is often a reason for a suicide among them. A new study set out to find specifics.

Authors of this first study to compare the combinations head-to-head suggest that the glycopyrrolate combination is appropriate for long-term COPD management.

Three-quarters of stroke patients in a Swiss registry had at least 1 undiagnosed risk factor at the time of the event, most commonly hyperlipidemia or hypertension.

US CV health is well below ideal, with 80% of adults scoring as only low or moderate in the first published study using AHA's new Life's Essential 8 algorithm.

Slide Show: The AHA added sleep duration to its Life's Simple 7 cardiovascular health construct and updated sections on diet, lipids, blood glucose and smoking.

If the atogepant label is expanded, the drug will be the only gepant approved for the broad indication of prevention of both episodic and chronic migraine.

The new approval for risankizumab makes it the only interleukin-23 inhibitor for moderately to severely active Crohn disease, according to AbbVie.

Lead author of a study of nearly 200 000 adults with type 2 diabetes that revealed significant clinical inertia in the critical period following initial diagnosis expands on the implications.

Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic adults with undiagnosed prediabetes are less likely than White adults to appreciate their risk for overt type 2 diabetes.

Statin-treated patients at high atherosclerotic risk experienced significantly slower progression of arterial stiffness vs those not taking statins in a cohort of more than 5000 patients.

Change in HbA1c as a guide for T2D treatment intensification is steadily yielding to presence of/risk for comorbidities as pluripotent agents win guideline favor, observes a VA clinical investigator.

Elements of proper blood pressure measurement technique may seem picayune, but skipping them may cost you - here's how much.

The FDA today denied Juul Labs' premarket tobacco product applications and ordered all products removed from shelves nationwide, ending a 2-year review.

A literature review comprising ~1.3 million patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 reveals women are 22% more likely vs men to develop long COVID, yet treatment is no different.

The sodium-glucose cotransporter 1/2 inhibitor at 150 mg was associated with a significant 32% reduction in liver enzyme levels in a phase 2a clinical trial.

The 21-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine targets 85% of invasive pneumococcal disease in adults aged ≥65 years; 8 serotypes are exclusive to this vaccine, says Merck.

The cost of continuous glucose monitors must be covered for persons with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the state of Illinois based on a bill signed into law this month.

As the COVID-19 pandemic swelled, quickly depleting US health care system resources, outcomes in some states were, and remain, far worse than in others.

While long COVID may be less likely following Omicron, researchers note, the sheer number of those infections in the UK should be a stark warning.

New findings suggest that HIIT may be an effective aerobic exercise option for asthma patients.

Empagliflozin was associated with a nearly 40% reduced risk of incident renal stone disease vs placebo in a large analysis of data pooled from randomized clinical trials.

DiabetesWise Pro founder highlights the 3 most beneficial website features to help clinicians compare all the available CGMs, delivery systems, AIDs, and smart pens.

Insurance companies believe the required presurgical programs reduce complications and improve outcomes but a new study strongly suggests the opposite.