Preventive Medicine News

Engaging in moderate-intensity physical activity for 11 minutes a day could prevent nearly 16% of all premature deaths, according to researchers.

Private sector workers in the United States had a higher likelihood of undergoing colorectal or breast cancer screening if they lived in a jurisdiction with a paid-sick-leave mandate, results of a population-based study showed.

SEATTLE — Two studies presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic infections demonstrated high adherence levels and acceptability of long-acting, injectable PrEP for HIV prevention among varying groups of people.

Discontinuing aspirin at 24 to 28 weeks of gestation was noninferior to continuing aspirin until 36 weeks of gestation to prevent preterm preeclampsia among high-risk individuals, according to a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA.

Pfizer presented data for the first time publicly Thursday on its maternal vaccine candidate for respiratory syncytial virus, which was granted priority review this week by the FDA.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released a draft recommendation advocating for individuals who are planning to or could become pregnant to take a daily folic acid supplementation of 0.4 to 0.8 mg to prevent neural tube defects.

SEATTLE — Recently published recommendations for the prevention of pediatric HIV infection say people with HIV should be counseled about infant feeding prior to conception or as early as possible in pregnancy.

Prior to medical school, I was involved in research looking at childhood obesity. 

There was a sustained decrease in pertussis cases among young infants in the years after maternal Tdap vaccination was introduced in the United States, according to the results of a CDC study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Non-Hispanic Black adults had higher rates of delayed appendicitis diagnoses in the ED compared with white adults, putting them at greater risk for perforated appendicitis and post-surgery infection, a recent study found.