Preventive Medicine News

An expert consensus decision pathway recently issued by the American College of Cardiology addresses lipid-lowering therapies that were developed after the publication of the ACC/American Heart Association cholesterol guidelines in 2018.

Staying active and spending less time sitting are highly likely to reduce breast cancer risk, according to researchers.

There was a short-term increase in selection for resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae among children who received azithromycin during a mass administration of the antibiotic, but no evidence of long-term resistance, a study found.

New data show global step counts decreased heavily in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-pandemic counts and continue to remain below average, even after 2 years since the pandemic began.

For me, family medicine and primary care have always been about people. By “people," I mean both those folks who we take care of and those who we team up with to do the work.

Regular physical activity was associated with a lower risk for developing COVID-19 and experiencing adverse outcomes of COVID-19, including severe disease and mortality, a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found.

Although progress has been made in eliminating mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B by 2030, 26% of countries have not introduced a birth dose into routine hepatitis B vaccination, noted data in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

We are on the verge of taking a historic step forward. The U.S. House of Representatives must pass the Inflation Reduction Act and President Joe Biden must sign this critical piece of legislation into law to improve our nation’s health.

Several health provisions guaranteed by the Affordable Care Act have been widely popular among the American people and saved countless lives ever since this landmark piece of legislation was enacted into law.

The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative — or WPSI — issued new guidelines for preventing weight gain in women aged 40 to 60 years.