September 16th 2025
ShiraTronics unveiled an implantable device that offers sustained migraine relief, reducing headache days and improving quality of life for patients.
September 15th 2025
CMS announces application details as RFK calls it ‘the largest investment ever made’ to improve rural health.
September 10th 2025
Apple Watch Series 11 introduces notifications for possible chronic high blood pressure. The company projects to catch more than one million previously undiagnosed cases of hypertension within a year of release.
September 9th 2025
HHS Secretary Kennedy, Ag Secretary Rollins roll out action steps for national initiative on health.
The reasons why patients don't take mediations are not insurmountable hurdles for physicians
Vision meets reality for chronic conditions
Concierge medicine offers an optimal environment for treating chronic disease
Primary care can relieve stress for patients caring for family members
Finding may have implications as more people take care of aging relatives around the world.
Opioid use disorder treatment is not consistent around the nation
As number of deaths climbed, medications were not used evenly around the states, according to a new study.
FDA approves two Type 2 Diabetes drugs for use in children
FDA approves Jardiance and Synjardy for pediatric use.
More primary care needed to fix what ails American health care system
Commonwealth Fund 2023 Scorecard rates access, disparities, outcomes, and suggests solutions.
FDA approves Lodoco, first anti-inflammatory drug for cardiovascular disease
Lodoco targets the inflammation that is an underlying cause of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. It will be available in the second half of 2023.
How primary care physicians can harness apps for a new age of patient care
Caring for patients with autoimmune diseases is a team sport. Here’s a way for technology to tie your team together.
Men had higher death rates than women as opioid crisis claimed lives in 2020 and 2021
Study examining mortality comes out as AMA updates policies on substance use.
Body mass index has ‘significant limitations’ as measure of health, AMA says
Physicians can use biological BMI, medications, lifestyle counseling as interventions to help patients dealing with overweight, obesity.
New Making Care Primary model to start 10-year test in 2024
CMS announces goals for primary care physicians, clinicians to provide better coordination of care for chronic diseases.
Smoking cessation: The time is now
Is tobacco use still a national health problem? Yes, and primary care physicians are in position to help patients quit.
In an era of extreme burnout, how can physicians find the time and support to properly prioritize SDOH with patients?
Assessing and improving social determinants of health begin with the patient-physician relationship.
We are moving toward comprehensive diabetes care. How do we maintain momentum?
AACE algorithm supports clinical decision-making with person-centric approach to care.
Health care inequities are costing billions across the United States
Medical care, lost productivity, premature deaths take a huge toll on patients, families, and the economy, according to researchers.
Study highlights challenges of providing diabetes care to rural patients
Patients in urban areas more likely to meet all aspects of key metric of diabetes care
Integrating mental and behavioral health in specialty care
Our health system is too siloed to recognize patient problems that might cross specialties.
Primary care physicians are not addressing obesity with patients, researchers say
New tool aims to become sustainable program for treating obesity as a disease state, not just other associated conditions.
High insulin costs lead to rationing for patients with diabetes
Recent developments drive price breaks for necessary substance.
In Senate, Sanders leads new call for Medicare for All
Lawmakers introduce bills to ‘guarantee health care as a fundamental human right to all people in the U.S.’
When drug prices are too high, older patients don’t take their medicines. How can physicians help?
Study on prescriptions suggests how doctors, patients, real-time price tools, and pharmacists can work together.
Despite COVID pandemic, most patients could still get needed prescription medications
Study credits existing delivery infrastructure for lack of disruption
Health technology eases anxiety in patients with chronic conditions, study finds
All technology interventions substantially improved mental health, but those supported by physicians and other providers were shown to be most effective.
NIH begins massive study on dietary effects of food on individual patients
‘Nutrition for Precision Health’ seeks out how each body responds differently to food.
Screening for genetic conditions can be cost effective for adults
Researchers calculate results for routine checks, not just those with risky family history.
Hospital groups support preventive health services at stake in court fight
AHA, AAMC, others weigh in on federal case that affects services free for patients.
Area Deprivation Index informs policy but misses mark at provider level
Applied properly, ADI can be used to better understand markets and patient populations.
The economics of tobacco cessation: an overlooked resource in practice success
Your practice may be missing out on significant opportunities to improve net income by underperforming in tobacco cessation.
Physician groups condemn shooting at Atlanta medical center
Health care workers, patients deserve spaces free from gun violence.
Equity up, weight down: ACP urges docs to help all patients manage obesity
New initiative is ‘ambitious’ but ‘intentional’ with educational resources to cut disparities, dissolve stigma, and improve health.
Addressing chronic disease requires holistic, personalized approach to care
A focus on communication and building patient trust with can lead to reversing chronic conditions