Practice Management News

Higher cumulative heart health score from age 18 to 45 years was associated with lower risk for cardiovascular disease and death at midlife, as too was improvement in CV health scores over the years, researchers reported.

Health savings accounts are a powerful tool for managing health care expenses, offering significant tax advantages and flexibility.

The number of Americans breathing unhealthy, polluted air where they lived between 2021 and 2023 totaled 156 million, which was a 25 million increase from last year’s State of the Air report, according to a press release.

Animal testing requirements for monoclonal antibodies and other medications will be “reduced, refined or potentially replaced” in favor of other approaches, including artificial intelligence, according to a recent announcement from the FDA.

CHICAGO — Compared with usual care, a system of electronic provider notification more often enabled patients diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis to have aortic valve replacement within 1 year, researchers reported.

This year, the Obesity Medicine Association’s conference will focus on several significant developments and treatment strategies in obesity medicine.

A simmering mistrust of medical science and scientific institutions that had been long building in the United States boiled over during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An estimated record-high 91 million Americans are unable to pay for quality health care if they needed it today, according to a new West Health and Gallup survey.

The risk for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality was heightened when adults had arthritis plus comorbid COPD, according to data published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation.