Preventive Medicine News

WASHINGTON — After 2 days of discussions about reforming primary care, Kavita Patel, MD, MS, closed out the Primary Care Collaborative annual meeting by getting “back to the heart” of why changes are needed.

WASHINGTON — HHS officials are working on an action plan that will improve access to primary care and support the integration of behavioral, environmental, oral and reproductive health care services.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released a draft recommendation advocating for clinicians to prescribe preexposure prophylaxis to patients at increased risk for HIV.

Despite decreases in cervical cancer screenings between 1999 and 2019 among older women with Medicare fee-for-service coverage, this group may be overspending on screening-related services, according to data in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The ACP is calling for adequately funded policies and procedures to improve disparities in access to and the quality of health care for individuals in U.S. jails and prisons.

Real-world data showed that bivalent messenger RNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 provided “significant additional protection” against symptomatic COVID-19 among people who had received two, three or four previous monovalent doses.

A surge of respiratory syncytial virus, an early start to influenza season and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have caused a “tripledemic” in the United States, overwhelming hospitals, experts said.

Contact tracing and exposure investigation have helped to mitigate the spread of monkeypox virus in Massachusetts, where the first U.S. case in the current outbreak was detected, a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine found.

Osteopathic manipulation medicine, or OMM, services may help to reduce stress and burnout among health care workers, a recent study found.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released two final recommendations on the use of hormone therapy for the primary prevention of chronic conditions in postmenopausal people.