Failure to Follow-Up After Colorectal Cancer Screening Translates into Preventable Deaths: Rachel Issaka, MD, MAS
ACP 2025: Issaka, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, told internists that three-quarters of CRC deaths can be attributed to 3 types of screening failure.
RSV Vaccine Uptake Low Among Eligible Populations, Large-Scale Analysis Finds
AAAAI 2025: RSV vaccine and immunoprophylaxis uptake remained low in 2024 across infants, pregnant individuals, and older adults.
Closing the Gap in Lung Cancer Screening: Overcoming Barriers, Improving Early Detection
ACP 2025: Kim Sandler, MD, outlines key strategies to boost lung cancer screening uptake in primary care.
Primary Care Primer for Headache Management, with Morris Levin, MD
ACP 2025. The director of the UCSF Headache Center built an evidence-based framework for diagnosing and treating headache disorders seen in primary care.
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.
Bringing Mental Health into Primary Care: A Conversation with Mathew 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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Dermatology in Primary Care: Evidence for the Total Body Skin Exam and Cautions on Cryotherapy
ACP 2025. A quick look at 2 topics in dermatology rounded out a Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind session at the 2025 American College of Physicians annual meeting.
Prostate Cancer Screening: Balancing Benefits and Harms in an Evolving Landscape
ACP 2025. Ruth Etzioni, PhD, discussed evidence-based approaches to screening for patients at average risk, start and stop criteria, MRI for follow-up screening, and other topics.
ACP: Invest in Rural Communities to Decrease Health Disparities, Improve Access to Care
In a new position paper, the ACP calls for policy action to address rural health disparities, improve access to care, and strengthen the rural health care workforce.