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The American Diabetes Association recently published its annual Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes report. It provides new and updated practice guidelines, including recommendations for screening and treatment based on comorbidities. Almost 122 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association. The CDC has previously published data that show 21.4%

A global healthy lifestyle intervention initiated in preschool settings was associated with improved health knowledge, attitude and habits and could potentially reduce CVD risk across the life span, data from a 10-year review show.In a review of the Salud Integral-Comprehensive Health (SI!) program for CV health promotion, an early childhood health intervention focusing on nutrition, fitness,

A medical team in Maryland successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time in history. The surgeon who performed the procedure said it brought researchers “one step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis.” Healio’s coverage of the procedure was the top story in cardiology last week.

Researchers observed no independent association between chronic kidney disease and pre- or post-event dementia among patients with transient ischemic attack and stroke, according to results of a population-based cohort study. “In one previous study, CKD was predictive of all-cause dementia independent of both previous symptomatic cerebrovascular disease and small vessel disease on brain

How I became a rheumatologist is kind of an odd story. When I was in medical school at Yale, I did my work in the infectious diseases section with Richard Root, MD, and William Greene, MD. I had a prize-winning thesis on inflammation and white blood cells. If your thesis wins a prize at Yale, you present at student research day.

Non-speculum sampling by clinicians and self-sampling “substantially increased” cervical cancer screening uptake in women aged 50 to 64 years who were overdue for screening, according to researchers. The American Cancer Society predicted that nearly 15,000 new cases of invasive cervical cancer would be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2021, and that the average age at diagnosis for the

Patients with vision-threatening eye diseases who belong to a racial or ethnic minority group reported feeling less respected by clinicians than their non-Hispanic white counterparts, according to a cross-sectional cohort study.

Among patients treated with sofosbuvir and velpatasvir for hepatitis C virus, the minimal monitoring approach achieved sustained virological response similar to standard monitoring, according to research. “In low-income and middle-income countries, where over 80% of individuals with chronic HCV reside, costs associated with recommended diagnostics such as pretreatment genotyping and

Histologic activity was not associated with recurrence in patients who were in complete endoscopic remission after ileocolonic resection for Crohn’s disease, according to new data.“Prior studies suggest endoscopic recurrence, the goal treat-to-target endpoint, precedes both clinical and surgical recurrence in postoperative Crohn’s disease after ileocolonic resection. Although it

A cutoff of age 15 years for pediatric differentiated thyroid cancer care may be more appropriate than the American Thyroid Association’s cutoff of 18 years due to risk factors related to survival rates, according to study data. In a retrospective review of records from a hospital in Japan, children aged 14 years and younger who underwent surgery for differentiated thyroid cancer were more