Preventive Care
Conference Coverage
Apixaban cuts stroke but ups bleeding in subclinical AFib: ARTESIA
The big question is whether the reduction in stroke with anticoagulation outweighs the increase in major bleeding.
Commentary
The future of medicine is RNA
A single injection that can suppress protein synthesis for an entire year? If it really works, it changes the game.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Can vitamin and mineral supplementation prevent cancer or cardiovascular disease?
Listen to your patients about vitamin and mineral supplements, answer their questions, and tell them the facts.
Conference Coverage
Semaglutide ‘a new pathway’ to CVD risk reduction: SELECT
The SELECT trial was “a turning point in the treatment of obesity and a call to action.”
Commentary
The steep costs of disrupting gut-barrier harmony
When the gut barrier is disrupted by factors such as infection, low-fiber diet, antibiotics, and alcohol, then it cannot function normally to...
Latest News
Reimagining rehabilitation: In-home physical therapy gets a boost
Rather than going to a separate facility or a hospital, the patient logs onto a mobile app that matches them with a physical therapist.
Feature
How to prescribe exercise in 5 steps
“The most important thing to know about exercise is that finding the time and having the health to do so is a privilege.”
News
Test all perinatally exposed infants for HCV: CDC
The CDC noted that rates of HCV infections during pregnancy are on the rise.
Latest News
AI app can do biomechanical analysis in minutes
The motion-capture app could help clinicians design better interventions to ward off mobility problems and speed recovery.
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Strength training promotes knee health, lowers OA risk
The association between strength training and less frequent knee pain, less radiographic OA, and less symptomatic OA was strongest in the older...
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Older adults at risk from inappropriate prescribing
The rates do not significantly differ between physicians and nurse practitioners.