Patients are often left out of decisions about whether they should take medications for hypertension and elevated cholesterol or whether cancer screening is appropriate for them, according to a survey published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. Even when patients… Read More ›
Clinicians should screen all adults aged 18 years and older for alcohol misuse, including pregnant women, and provide persons engaged in risky or hazardous drinking with brief behavioral counseling interventions to reduce misuse, says the US Preventive Services Task Force… Read More ›
Key US public health leaders have coalesced around an aggressive screening strategy for HIV: making HIV screening a routine part of care for US adolescents and adults, regardless of whether they are at increased risk for the infection. New recommendations… Read More ›
Screening tools in the primary care setting may help identify some adults at increased risk for suicide, but the tools have limited ability to detect suicide risk in adolescents, say the authors of an evidence review prepared for the US… Read More ›
Physicians should pause before hitting “send” on an e-mail, tweet, or other digital communication to ensure that the communication will uphold their professional obligations to patients and not mar the reputation of the profession, urges a new joint position paper… Read More ›
When sequencing an individual’s DNA for a particular medical issue uncovers genetic variants that may suggest that the patient may develop other health problems, it presents laboratories and clinicians with a dilemma: should patients be told? Today a prominent group… Read More ›
A new study confirms that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) teens face less bullying as they get older, adding some quantitative support for a popular online campaign that began in 2010 to provide encouragement to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender… Read More ›
Offering cheese and vegetables may be a winning combination for kids’ snacks, researchers report today in the journal Pediatrics, producing satiety with fewer calories than potato chips. The availability of such high-calorie snacks as potato chips, cookies, and candy has… Read More ›
A large majority of internal medicine residents, including a majority of residents in primary care programs specifically designed to promote general medicine careers, are planning to enter subspecialty careers rather than become general internists. The findings, appearing today in JAMA,… Read More ›
Most patients with symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) should not routinely undergo endoscopy to examine the upper gastrointestinal tract, according to recommendations published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Such screening should be reserved for a select group… Read More ›
