Sports Medicine News

Cathleen M. McCabe, MD, and Laura B. Enyedi, MD, talk with Jaya B. Kumar, MD, FASRS, and Jullia A. Rosdahl, MD, PhD, about addressing physician suicide and destigmatizing mental health. Plus, they share their favorite resilience hacks.

About one in four adults in the U.S. and its territories are physically inactive, meaning they have not participated in activities such as running, walking for exercise or gardening outside of work in the past month, according to the CDC.

Although COVID-19 remained a popular topic among Healio Primary Care readers in 2021, other stories that discussed diabetes screening and physician suicide also generated significant attention.

As of Dec. 1, the FDA had approved 46 novel drugs this year, one fewer than it had approved by the same date in 2020.

Adopting family-centered nutrition programs can positively influence diet in children with autism, according to a study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

In a cohort of athletes with long QT syndrome or other genetic heart diseases who were approved to return to play, there were no sports-related deaths over 20 years, researchers reported at Heart Rhythm 2021.

The Team Physician Consensus Conference released a new guidance document to help team physicians manage sport-related concussions in athletes of all ages.

The use of third-generation fluoroquinolones — specifically, garenoxacin, moxifloxacin, pazufloxacin, prulifloxacin and sitafloxacin — was not associated with an increased risk for Achilles tendon ruptures, a study in Japan showed.

Obstructive sleep apnea is common in individuals with CVD and risk factors including high BP, and screening for it in that population is warranted, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

Thirty-five percent of adults in the United States who were surveyed said they would consider leaving their primary care physician for qualified physicians providing on-demand telehealth services.