Is Your Patient Married? Check Their Spouse's Blood Pressure, Too Couple-centered strategies can help manage hypertension Dec 18, 2023
HF Patient's Zip Code Telling of Potential Adherence Issues to Meds GDMT nonadherence exceeds 50% in some neighborhoods, New York study finds Dec 15, 2023
Trump's Cognitive Exam; CDC Issues 'Urgent' Vaccination Alert; Plan B Use Doubled Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by MedPage Today staff Dec 15, 2023
Biden Administration Announces Moves to Cut Drug Prices Lower drug copays for Medicare enrollees, price concessions for new COVID treatments spotlighted Dec 14, 2023
Experts Highlight Drug Overdose Deaths Among Seniors During Senate Hearing Early CDC data suggest the problem is worsening Dec 14, 2023
Dementia-Sleep Link Has a New Twist Research unravels relationship between irregular sleep and poor brain health Dec 14, 2023
Experts, Lawmakers Explore Downside of Drug-Price Negotiation Stifled innovation, reduced access suggested as future challenges Dec 14, 2023
Moderna's mRNA RSV Vaccine Effective in Older Adults Whether it provides lasting protection remains to be seen Dec 13, 2023
Health Spending Rose 4.1% in 2022, Government Report Says But spending on physician and clinical services grew more slowly, at 2.7% Dec 13, 2023
Using Baseline Markers to Predict Response in Psoriatic Arthritis More biomarker research is needed, but new study is a good start Dec 13, 2023 video
High-Altitude Mountain Trips Can Be Tolerated Despite Pulmonary Hypertension Effects of high elevation tested in an experiment in the Swiss Alps Dec 12, 2023
Life Expectancy Finally Increased: Why That's Not Really a Cause for Celebration The virus is still winning Dec 12, 2023
How Do You Select Systemic Therapy for Your Psoriasis Patients? Richard Warren explains the factors he considers and what his "go-to" treatment is Dec 12, 2023 video
Prion Disease Rising in the U.S. Incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease increased, especially among women Dec 11, 2023
Salmonella Deaths Grow; Hospital's Bariatric Surgery Factory; New Back Pain Recs Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by MedPage Today staff Dec 08, 2023
MedPAC Draft Recommendation Calls for 1.3% Pay Bump for Medicare Clinicians Concerns raised about doctors' ability to absorb the increased costs of running their practices Dec 07, 2023
Blood Test May Be Able to Tell Which Organs Have Accelerated Aging This may enable treatment of people before they get sick, researcher says Dec 06, 2023
Improvements With Guselkumab in Psoriatic Arthritis Seen Across All MDA Domains Experts discuss importance of both physician- and patient-reported domains Dec 06, 2023 video
Doc Set Home on Fire? High Blood Pressure in Couples; WHO: Raise Alcohol, Soda Taxes Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by MedPage Today staff Dec 06, 2023
Alzheimer's Blood Test Predicts Who Might Benefit Most From Anti-Amyloid Drugs Novel two-cutoff approach may reduce need for confirmatory PET scans Dec 05, 2023
How Much Pain Is 'Enough' to Prescribe Opioids? A compliance plan can help optimize clinical decision-making Dec 05, 2023
Deucravacitinib Improves Joint Symptoms in Psoriatic Arthritis Greater improvements over apremilast and placebo through 24 weeks Dec 05, 2023
Rituximab Maintenance Boosts Survival for Older Adults With MRD-Negative MCL Patients with treatment-sensitive disease may benefit most from continued treatment, says expert Dec 05, 2023
High Blood Pressure in Babies Linked to Adult Atherosclerosis Is BP screening starting before age 3 years warranted? Dec 04, 2023
PsA Raises Mortality Risk, but Unevenly Some psoriatic arthritis patients more vulnerable than others in Swedish study Dec 04, 2023
Orphan Drug Costs; Digital Devices for Diabetes Also in TTHealthWatch: smoking cessation benefits Dec 02, 2023 podcast
Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter How to care for those who no longer care about themselves Dec 02, 2023
VTE Risk After Joint Replacement: Does Anticoagulant Choice Matter? Large claims-based study provides some answers Dec 01, 2023
Afib Guidelines Add New Stages, Upgrade Catheter Ablation Specific lifestyle measures also recommended Nov 30, 2023
Coronary Heart Disease by Age 45 Linked With Subsequent Dementia All-cause dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and vascular dementia risks elevated Nov 29, 2023
New Data on Bimekizumab in Psoriatic Arthritis Roundtable of experts weigh in on "unprecedented" efficacy, and safety issues Nov 29, 2023 video
Stronger Quads May Lower Risk for Knee Replacement Surgery Higher quadricep-hamstring ratio associated with 82% lower odds in NIH cohort Nov 29, 2023
Common Headaches May Be Pains in the Neck Imaging links inflammation to migraine and tension headaches Nov 29, 2023
Methotrexate Tied to Greater Risks for Older Patients With CKD FDA should consider warning labels based on study results, researchers argue Nov 28, 2023
'Medicarelessness' Revisited After 50 Years Privatization of the public program has simply bolstered corporate profits Nov 27, 2023
Cognitive Scores Improve With Personal Coaching Trial shows better outcomes for people at high dementia risk Nov 27, 2023
Alzheimer's Drug Trials Should Report Effect Sizes, Researchers Say How effective are anti-amyloid treatments? Nov 22, 2023
New Data on TYK2 Inhibitors for Psoriasis, Psoriatic Arthritis Favorable results with TAK-279 and deucravacitinib in studies at ACR Nov 22, 2023 video
States Making Progress Toward Setting Payment Limits for Some Drugs Prescription drug affordability boards are now the law in eight states Nov 21, 2023
Proteins Predict Signs of Alzheimer's Disease Subclinical health indicators tied to markers of Alzheimer's and neurodegeneration Nov 20, 2023
