Preventive Medicine News

Many adults aged at least 75 years are taking aspirin for primary CVD prevention despite lack of evidence, whereas many are not taking statins for primary CVD prevention despite strong evidence, researchers reported.

WHO’s inaugural World Report on Hearing estimates that about one in four people — or about 2.5 billion — worldwide will have some type of hearing loss by 2050.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a draft recommendation encouraging physicians to screen for chlamydia and gonorrhea in all sexually active women aged 24 years and younger.

The White House’s COVID-19 response coordinator said Monday that doses of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine will be delivered as early as Tuesday.

Older patients with ischemic stroke who took statins for 2 years after discharge experienced fewer CV events after hospital discharge compared with those who took them for less than 2 years or not at all, researchers reported in Stroke.

A study involving more than 1,000 patients identified cardiac involvement, age and race as attributes that could differentiate multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children from severe COVID-19, researchers reported in JAMA.

Offering mammograms to low-income, hospitalized women who are overdue to receive one helps reduce barriers to screening that they may face in the outpatient setting, according to researchers.

Although the Biden administration has said that enough COVID-19 vaccine doses will be available in the U.S. to vaccinate 300 million people by the end of July, it is still unclear when vaccines will be widely available to children.

Now is a time of transition in our nation. As physicians, regardless of our background or upbringing, we hold positions of power and privilege in society. We must use our power to give voice to our patients and communities.

Klisyri, an FDA-approved Src kinase signaling inhibitor, was superior to placebo for the treatment of actinic keratoses, according to findings from two double-blind randomized trials published in The New England Journal of Medicine.