Preventive Medicine News

For the nation’s struggling primary care system, help is on the way. This may sound too good to be true, but it’s for real.

Roughly one-third of men globally have at least one type of genital HPV and one in five are infected with at least one high-risk HPV type, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Despite women reporting more falls overall, men died from falls at higher rates, according to results published in MMWR.

Higher adherence to the Mediterranean lifestyle was associated with a nearly 30% lower risk for all-cause and cancer mortality, according to researchers.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has ruled that there is not enough evidence to advocate for or against primary care interventions to prevent child maltreatment before it takes place.

Shared decision-making could attenuate racial disparities in prostate cancer screening, according to research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Novavax on Tuesday said its updated COVID-19 vaccine candidate induced neutralizing antibodies against emerging SARS-CoV-2 subvariants in small animal and non-human primate studies.

Moderna this week said preliminary clinical trial data confirmed that its updated COVID-19 vaccine provides a “significant boost” in neutralizing antibodies against emerging SARS-CoV-2 viruses and is expected to effectively target them.

Among transplant recipients treated for cytomegalovirus, resistance to maribavir was less common than resistance to investigator-assigned standard therapy, at baseline and post-treatment, researchers reported.

More than 2 decades of data show that exposure to tropical storm or hurricane rainfall increases the risk of acquiring waterborne diseases, demonstrating the storms’ threat to public health, researchers reported in Emerging Infectious Diseases.