Preventive Care
Conference Coverage
College students report perceived barriers to HPV vaccine
College-aged men and women had positive attitudes toward human papillomavirus vaccination, yet perceived cost and access barriers factored into...
Conference Coverage
Women with suspected CAD classified as lower risk than men
Key clinical point: Women with suspected coronary artery disease had similar symptoms and more risk factors for coronary artery disease, compared...
News
Large cohort study confirms link between pioglitazone, bladder cancer
Pioglitazone was linked to a 63% increase in bladder cancer risk, compared with other noninsulin antidiabetic drugs in a large population-based...
News
FDA updates labeling for mifepristone for early abortions
The Food and Drug Administration has approved new labeling for the early abortion drug mifepristone, which women’s health advocates say now puts...
News
Only ‘early’ estradiol limits atherosclerosis progression
Hormone therapy – estradiol with or without progesterone – only limits the progression of subclinical atherosclerosis if it is initiated within 6...
Conference Coverage
Heart attack patients getting younger, fatter, and less healthy
Key clinical point: Despite advances in understanding heart disease prevention, patients with heart attack are younger and less healthy than they...
Conference Coverage
Brain imaging suggests link between stress and cardiovascular events
Key clinical point: Activation of the amygdala, the brain’s fear response center, was directly correlated with the occurrence of cardiovascular...
Conference Coverage
Arterial calcium findings on mammograms can predict heart disease risk
Key clinical point: Breast arterial calcification information – available on every mammogram – could be used to help predict heart disease risk....
What Matters
Does sharing genetic risk change behavior?
Does knowledge of DNA-based disease risk motivate patients to make lifestyle changes?
Commentary
Perinatal depression screening: New recommendations and challenges
The move toward perinatal depression screening is welcome and simply commonsense, but it is concerning that there has been so little systematic...
News
Bisphenol S promotes fat accumulation, differentiation
Key clinical point: Bisphenol S induces lipid accumulation in, and differentiation of, human preadipocytes.