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
Balancing cost and care: How cardiac physicians and health care providers can adapt to changing reimbursement structures
Here’s why doctors should consider bringing cardiac monitoring in-house to improve patient care.
Study finds mental health disorders in COPD patients often undiagnosed, undertreated
Undertreated depression and anxiety may be making patient COPD symptoms worse
Bhattacharya outlines plan to restore credibility at National Institutes of Health
Senate HELP Committee has questions for Trump nominee.
Trump: Administration will ‘keep our children healthy and strong’
President mentions some health care issues in address to Congress.
Enhancing primary care: The impact of pharmacist-led chronic care and AI-driven telehealth
Physicians, pharmacists and artificial intelligence can join to form a cost-effective solution that improves patient outcomes and financial sustainability.
Can absence patterns at school identify kids with chronic GI problems?
Study found a link between frequently missing school and suffering from more serious GI disorders
RFK Jr.: Texas measles outbreak is call to action for vaccines, therapeutics
Outbreak spurs HHS guidance on potentially deadly disease.
7 ways to discuss cancer screening with your patients
Primary care physicians have a chance to save lives through early detection of cancer.
USPSTF adds two members, seeks nominees for national board
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force taking nominations through mid-March for national panel of health care advisers.
Diabetes control declines among U.S. adults after years of stability
A research letter published in JAMA noted that young adults saw the largest drop in glycemic control from 2021-2023.
Prescriptions for ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic
UCLA research highlights the widespread use of non-evidence-based treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic, raising concerns about the role of misinformation and health care spending.
FDA clears Tandem Diabetes Care’s Control-IQ+ for type 2 diabetes
New automated insulin delivery system expands access to advanced diabetes technology.
Financial toll of health conditions: hundreds of billions of dollars
Author describes origin of new study that breaks down health care spending and medical conditions over a decade.
Patients with diabetes achieve ‘same positive results’ from PCPs and telehealth as they would from specialists
Study finds that patients see the same results from advanced insulin delivery technology from primary care, telehealth training as they would from in-person specialists.
FDA approves first adaptive deep brain stimulation system for Parkinson’s
Real-time neuromodulation offers more precise treatment for Parkinson’s patients.
Trump and primary care: Best ways to Make America Health Again
Experts prescribe ways new administration immediately could bolster primary care.
Study calls for standardized goals of care notes in EHRs
Researchers find that structured, accessible GOC documentation enhances decision-making and patient care across health care settings.
‘Underfunded and undervalued’ — primary care dwindles as chronic disease booms
U.S. health care system gets failing grade for supporting primary care, say Milbank Memorial Fund and the Physicians Foundation.
FDA clears first direct-to-consumer celiac disease genetic test
Targeted Genomics’ new at-home GlutenID test provides consumers direct access to their inherited risk profile.
Are third-party telehealth prescriptions of GLP-1s safe?
In a new Omada Health survey, PCPs warn of safety risks, overprescribing and care gaps regarding GLP-1s for weight loss.
Preventive antimicrobials: A promising solution to antibiotic resistance
Prevention beats treatment for everyone — patients, payers and investors.
Health care spending has wide variation, with Type 2 diabetes as top condition, according to major study
Research estimates health care spending by conditions, age, types of care, down to county level.
RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement, explained
What will the plans of RFK Jr., Trump’s new secretary of health and human services, mean to physicians and patients?
Helping patients avoid obesity medicine scams
With high demand but high prices for antiobesity drugs, patients may fall for phony pharmaceuticals.
Trump wants RFK Jr. to Make America Healthy Again. This is what they need to know about ultraprocessed foods
A study of the medical economics of ultraprocessed foods, diabetes and pharmaceutical revenues.
UVA to test AI-powered insulin delivery to improve diabetes care
UVA researchers test AI technology to enhance automated insulin delivery and improve blood sugar control for patients with T1D.
If cancer risks increase for younger generations, family physicians’ duty is clear
Primary care, oncology can use team approach to improve prevention and screening efforts.
Chronic health conditions take a hidden toll on U.S. workforce
Poll finds that employees are managing their conditions at work, but not telling their employer
50 million Americans lack access to a gastroenterologist
Just one-third of U.S. counties have gastroenterologists, leaving millions without sufficient digestive care.
Primary care: Fighting AMR on the front line of medicine
Other clinicians and patients all have a place in slowing the spread of antimicrobial resistance.