Preventive Medicine News

One of the greatest milestones in a family physician’s career is the first time a patient asks you to be their primary care physician.

Using the American Heart Association’s new PREVENT risk calculator would mean reducing eligibility for statin and/or antihypertensive therapy by approximately 16 million U.S. adults, researchers reported in JAMA.

Testing HIV PrEP users for STIs every 6 months did not increase the risk for STIs compared with testing them every 3 months and could reduce the cost of PrEP programs, according to a study.

Three-quarters of people globally living with HIV are on ART, a roughly 30% increase during the last nine years, and fewer people acquired HIV in 2023 than at any point since the late 1980s, UNAIDS reported.

Informing patients of the benefit-harm balance associated with mammography screening is beneficial and did not hinder overall screening decisions, according to results of a national probability-based U.S. survey.

Researchers developed a low-cost rapid test to detect an invasive species of mosquito that has adapted to live near humans in urban environments, which they hope can be used in areas far from medical labs.

The American Heart Association’s PREVENT equations predicted that people with stage 1 hypertension have a lower 10-year risk for atherosclerotic CVD compared with the Pooled Cohort Equations.

Post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV remained significantly underutilized, especially in acute care settings, according to study results published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Primary care providers play a critical role in detecting and managing cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, according to experts.

In a meta-analysis of trials of blood pressure-lowering interventions, those led by pharmacists and community health workers resulted in more BP lowering than those led by other professionals, researchers reported.