In a concerning press release by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), the organization announced two cases of a novel strain of gonorrhea that has a reduced response to antibiotics....
In an announcement released on January 11, 2023, the AMA announced that its quality improvement program for managing blood pressure (BP), AMA MAP BP, has been successfully implemented across Cook...
Researchers in JAMA Pediatrics highlight issues in the nation’s mental health crisis in a new study that found that pediatric mental health emergency department (ED) visits increased by 8% every...
Researchers in JAMA Pediatrics recently published a study analyzing the impact of physical activity on depressive symptoms in children and adolescents and found that physical activity interventions...
A study published in Diabetes Care last week found that the incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in people younger than 20 is likely to increase significantly by 2060. Based on data from the SEARCH...
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its updated National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, highlighting achievements in the past decade and goals for a 2023...
Emergency departments (EDs) across the United States are critical pillars of the healthcare industry, providing treatment options for various conditions, from viral infections to cardiac failure. As...
Dementia is a broad term for many neurodegenerative diseases that can impair cognition and memory. The WHO notes that approximately 55 million people in the world have dementia, with the number...
Earlier this year, the AMA joined multiple other organizations and identified climate change as a public health crisis. Extreme temperatures and air pollution have considerable healthcare implications,...
Long COVID, an ill-defined syndrome expressed with various symptoms and degrees of severity, is now also proven deadly. According to a recent report published by the CDC, researchers found that 3,544...
Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States, associated with a significant clinical and financial burden. A publication in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology...
Data from the CDC suggests that, of the 37 million people in the United States with diabetes, 90–95% have type 2 diabetes (T2D). Historically, T2D is more likely to develop in adults over 45;...
The COVID-19 pandemic was a significant turning point in public health in the United States. When the pandemic began, providers and healthcare facilities were hit hard with waves of illness. On top of...
Many healthcare professionals have criticized ultraprocessed and processed foods for their lack of nutrients and potential health risks. Previously studies have noted that processed food consumption...
The pharmaceutical company, Roche Holding AG, received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA Tuesday for its cobas MPXV test that successfully detected monkeypox in human trials. The test is...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) defines nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) as an overarching term for a set of diseases that cause a fat buildup in...
A study published in Nature this August found that deep brain stimulation (DBS) could successfully reduce instances of loss of control (LOC) eating, one of the common features of binge eating disorder....
Recently, the CDC shared investigational details chronicling a recent listeria outbreak. The outbreak, which has infected approximately 16 people across six states, began on April 17, 2022, with the...
The United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently issued a draft recommendation statement with updated guidelines on skin cancer screenings. The draft document will be open to the...
On October 26, 2022, Walter A. Rocca, MD, MPH, and his colleagues published an article in JAMA Network Open on the association of premenopausal bilateral oophorectomy with Parkinson’s disease...
