Preventive Medicine News

Many primary care physicians may be overusing laboratory tests for anemia screening, misinterpreting iron studies and underusing bidirectional endoscopy for new-onset iron deficiency anemia, according to a recent survey study.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has put an incredible burden on all health care workers, it has also fueled a resurgence of anti-Asian racism in the U.S. and highlighted disparities in health care research and opportunities for Asian Americans.

Pfizer and BioNTech said Thursday that they have submitted a request to the FDA for an emergency use authorization of their COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 years.

Adding a new medication to older adults’ antihypertension treatment regimen produced a slightly greater reduction in systolic BP than maximizing dosage, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Men who ate healthy plant-based diets lowered their risk for prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction, according to data from three abstracts that were presented during the virtual American Urological Association meeting.

Acute myocarditis was rare in individuals who received at least one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The national blood inventory is at its lowest level for this time of the year since 2015, according to the Red Cross.

Molnupiravir, an investigational oral antiviral drug, significantly reduced the risk for hospitalization or death from COVID-19 among high-risk patients, according to a company press release.

Recent findings in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that AstraZeneca’s two-dose COVID-19 vaccine was 74% effective against symptomatic disease.

Prostate cancer is the second-most common cancer among men in the United States, with one in eight men diagnosed with the condition during his lifetime, data from the American Cancer Society show.