Preventive Health News

SAN DIEGO — Black women continue to experience disparities in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, leading to increased mortality.

SAN DIEGO — In this video, Rochelle F. Andreotti, MD, a professor of clinical radiology, radiological sciences and OB/GYN at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, recaps her endowed lecture on adnexal mass evaluation.

SAN DIEGO — In this exclusive video with Healio, Iffath Abbasi Hoskins, MD, the president-elect of ACOG, discusses the key initiative of her presidency year.

Fewer than half of emergency care visits for psychiatric reasons in postpartum women were accompanied by follow-up within 30 days, according to a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Screening rates for diabetes doubled in several Australian primary care practices after the implementation of a prevention intervention targeting women who were previously diagnosed with gestational diabetes, according to recent findings.

Incidence of suicide was higher among physicians than in the general population and affected female physicians significantly more than male, according to a study published in Psychiatry Research.

A nurse-led multidisciplinary initiative targeted at providers and medical staff doubled the number of patients who scheduled a follow-up routine visit for HIV preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.

Primary care clinicians accounted for a small proportion of abortion providers in the United States in 2019, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Many climate-change adaptation teams in large cities throughout the world have not adequately integrated public health agencies in their planning, according to findings published in PLOS Climate.

Maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination has been achieved by 80% of the 59 countries identified in 1999 as being still at risk for the infection, according to a report published in MMWR.