Treatment for Cluster Headache: European Academy of Neurology Guidelines
Cluster headache is rare and can be disabling. It can be misdiagnosed, particularly as migraine, but treatments are very different. Learn more in a short slide show.
Migraine & Hypertension: What is the Connection?
Which antihypertensive therapy options are most and least effective for patients with migraine? Get details, here.
Daily Dose: Lung Cancer Screening Significantly Increases Long-Term Survival Rate
Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.
Risk Stratification for Preeclampsia Would Save Lives, Reduce Burden of Cost to Health Care System
Identifying women at risk for preeclampsia with severe features and the most effective treatment is essential to reduce morbidity as well as to contain costs.
Obesity Advocacy Groups Say Exclusion of People with Obesity from Drug Research Must Stop
The 5 leading advocacy groups said the safety of people with obesity is at risk and called on the FDA to change clinical trial inclusion requirements and expedite labeling changes.
Underestimation of OHE Hospitalizations: Author of New Study Discusses Clinical Implications, Takeaways for Primary Care Clinicians
Arun Jesudian, MD, details key findings from a study he recently presented at The Liver Meeting 2023.
Daily Dose: COVID-19, Opioid Epidemic Primary Drivers of Widening Gender Gap in Life Expectancy
Primary Prevention of ASCVD: A Guideline Topline for Primary Care
Review the ACC/AHA guidelines on prevention of ASCVD through lifestyle and risk factor assessment and management in our at-a-glance slide show.
Treat the Neuropathic Pain—and the Rest of the Person, Too: PM&R Physician Saloni Sharma, MD
Physiatrist Saloni Sharma, MD, stresses the essential role of coordinated, multidisciplinary care for a person with neuropathic pain—and any person with limited function.
Lung Cancer Survival Improved Significantly Based on Early CT Screening: 20-Year Follow-Up Study Findings
Early CT screening led to a 20-year lung cancer survival rate of 81% in the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program. Details, here.
CV Risk Factors Increasing Among Middle-Aged US Adults, Socioeconomic Inequities Persist: New Findings
Cardiovascular mortality has been increasing among middle-aged US adult since 2011; a new study looked at changes in CV risk factors by income level over the past 20 years.
Dupilumab sBLA Submission for COPD Accelerated Based on Second Positive Phase 3 Trial Findings
Dupilumab reduced COPD exacerbations by more than one-third in the phase 3 NOTUS trial, matching outcomes from the earlier BOREAS study this year.
Abdominal Bloating Morphs into Pain and Vomiting: Seen in the ED
A 62-year-old woman reports several days of abdominal bloating and vomiting that changed 2 hours ago into severe generalized pain. Review the bedside ultrasound, here.
Daily Dose: Lowering SBP to <120 mm Hg Reduces CV Event Risk
How to Build Assessment for Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome into Primary CVD Prevention
Chiadi Ndumele, MD, PhD, MHS, offers 3 thoughts for primary care on incorporating CKM syndrome screening into daily clinical practice.
Use Weight-First Approach to Educate Patients about Obesity’s Role in HTN
An obesity specialist discusses the importance of using a weight-first approach when educating patients about obesity's role in the development and worsening of hypertension.
Physiatry's Focus on the Whole Person and Collaborative Care is an Ideal Rx for Neuropathic Pain
According to physical medicine and rehabilitation physician Saloni Sharma, MD, treatment for neuropathic pain draws on PM&R's many strengths.
Widening Gender Gap in Life Expectancy Primarily Driven by COVID-19 and Drug Overdose Crisis, According to New Research
Investigators found that the gender life expectancy gap increased 0.23 years from 2010 to 2019 and 0.70 years from 2019 to 2021.
Daily Dose: Speech is Promising Biomarker for MHE and OHE
Phase 3 Trial of Factor XIa Inhibitor Asundexian Halted for Lack of Efficacy
The novel oral anticoagulant is one in a class of agents for prevention of AF-related stroke that shows promise to reduce bleeding risk.
