Prevention

ORLANDO — Primary prevention programs for substance abuse should use strategies like those aimed at stress management and navigation of group dynamics, according to a speaker the Lifestyle Medicine Conference.

LIMA, Peru — Positive data continue to roll in for lenacapavir, the long-acting injectable that looks like a game-changer for HIV prevention.

LIMA, Peru — Healio is on site for the International AIDS Society’s HIV Research for Prevention Conference, which will take place from Oct. 6 to 10.

By addressing factors like health insurance coverage, internet access and income level, primary care providers can play an important role in suicide prevention, according to experts.

In June, Gilead Sciences announced that its investigational antiretroviral drug lenacapavir prevented 100% of new HIV infections during a phase 3 trial conducted among cisgender women in Africa.

Almost one-third of adults aged 60 years and older without CVD regularly used aspirin for primary prevention in 2021, contrary to guidance from medical organizations, a study showed.

Prevention of heart disease will do more good in the long run than procedures to treat advanced heart disease, the incoming president of National Lipid Association said at the NLA’s Scientific Sessions.

The CDC has published guidance recommending that providers counsel certain patients on the harms and benefits of doxycycline for post-exposure prophylaxis — or doxy-PEP — for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

A nationally representative survey showed high use of evidence-based technical interventions to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in recent years; however, gaps remain in use of behavioral interventions.