Hopes nurse practitioners will ease burden on regional GPs amid health care crisis
Nurse practitioners are helping ease some of the burden on doctors in rural areas as services look for…
Lifestyle care in primary clinics allows for safe diabetes deprescribing
A new research study provides real-world evidence that deprescribing glucose‑lowering medications is both feasible and safe when patients…
AI eye exams accurately identify heart disease risk during routine visits
A new system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assess cardiovascular risk based on images of the eye…
Nepal and Afghanistan show how abrupt aid cuts can unravel essential care
Nepal and Afghanistan show how sudden donor withdrawal can disrupt contraception, nutrition, vaccination, primary care, and outbreak control,…
Automated system boosts maternal smoking cessation in pediatric care
Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that a new automated tobacco treatment system integrated into routine…
Psychiatrists’ use of biomarkers could open a new window into mental health diagnoses
Amanda Miller was 30 and pregnant with her second child in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when she developed depression. After…
Study on inhaler overuse highlights urgent need for better objective asthma monitoring
Bedfont® Scientific Limited, an innovative med-tech company specializing in medical breath analysis devices, welcomes the new study at…
New research on two million people quantifies how genetic risks overlap across diagnoses
A sweeping new peer-reviewed study published in Genomic Psychiatry has introduced a concept that could reshape how psychiatrists…
New Research Suggests Mammograms Could Offer Heart Health Insight
4 min readRecent research suggests that breast arterial calcification (BAC) picked up on routine mammograms may help predict…
AI stethoscope doubles detection of serious valve disease in primary care study
New evidence suggests AI-assisted auscultation may help clinicians detect hidden valvular heart disease earlier, potentially reshaping frontline cardiac…
Nudges to clinicians and patients increase the rate of influenza vaccination
Patients were 28 percent more likely to get a flu shot when they got a text message reminder…
Faster hepatitis C treatment with interdisciplinary primary care
Background: Hepatitis C virus treatment is increasingly being offered in primary care because medications now require less frequent…