Preventive Care
From the Journals
Intentional weight loss protects against endometrial cancer
Women who deliberately lost 5% or more of their body weight during a 3-year period reduced their long-term risk of endometrial cancer by nearly 30...
Conference Coverage
Toddlers’ neurodevelopmental deficits linked with maternal diabetes
Children born to obese mothers with insulin-requiring type 2 diabetes showed neurodevelopmental deficits at age 2 years.
Conference Coverage
Study finds community-hospital lung cancer screening feasible
Implementing a lung cancer screening program in a community hospital setting is feasible and saves lives, but implementation comes with challenges...
Article
Ovarian cancer screening update
The average lifetime risk of developing ovarian cancer is low, approximately 1 in 70. Even a clinical test with 100% sensitivity and 99%...
News from the FDA/CDC
Increase brings flu activity back to seasonal high
The level of influenza-like illness activity was highest in five states for the week ending Jan. 21, compared with three states the week before,...
From the Journals
Lung cancer screening a challenge to implement
Screening for lung cancer resulted in few cancers detected but more than half of patients needing follow-up.
Conference Coverage
Hypertension risk soars in offspring of early-HT parents
NEW ORLEANS – When assessing a patient’s future risk for hypertension, consider the age at which the parents developed the disease.
Guidelines
Complex congenital heart conditions call for complex care in pregnancy
A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) brings together recommendations for management of pregnancy for women with...
From the Journals
Guideline: Keep blood pressure below 150 mm Hg in healthy elderly
Treat to lower a persistent systolic blood pressure of 150 mm Hg or more in patients 60 years or older who are otherwise healthy, the American...
From the Journals
Bone fractures more likely to occur in psoriasis, PsA patients
This is the first population-based study to examine the relationship between bone fractures and psoriasis, according to the authors.
Conference Coverage
Experts say don’t SPRINT to adopt low blood pressure target
NEW ORLEANS – The SPRINT trial target of systolic blood pressure less than 120 mm Hg doesn’t apply to most hypertensive patients.