Preventive Medicine News

About half of the first-year positions that were offered in the 2021 Main Residency Match were in primary care, family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics, and most of these positions have been filled, according to the National Resident Matching Program.

A new variant of SARS-CoV-2 identified in New York — B.1.526 — has increased in prevalence since it was first observed in samples collected in November 2020, according to researchers.

Most breast cancer centers in the United States recommend that women undergo screening mammography earlier and more often than recommended by national medical societies, data from a cross-sectional study in JAMA Internal Medicine show.

A final analysis showed that Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine was 96.4% efficacious against mild, moderate or severe disease caused by wild SARS-CoV-2 in a phase 3 trial in the United Kingdom, the company said.

On the 1-year anniversary of WHO declaring a pandemic over COVID-19, the Infectious Diseases Society of America convened a press briefing to discuss reopening schools.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued its final guidance on lung cancer screening, lowering the age to start screening to 50 years and the required smoking history to 20 pack-years.

Mediterranean diets are popular — even a bit romantic, evoking images of a glass of wine at sunset on the Italian coast. But do they actually work?

In new guidance, the CDC said Monday that fully vaccinated people can gather indoors with other fully vaccinated people without wearing masks or staying 6 feet apart.

The inclusion of kidney health measures, as recommended by Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes, led to more accurate predictions of 10-year risk for CVD events than did standard cardiovascular risk criteria alone.

Adding to existing evidence that shows the benefits of canagliflozin for patients with type 2 diabetes, researchers found those with “severely increased” baseline albuminuria experienced the most protective kidney effects.