Investigators report a 30% reduced risk of total joint replacement in persons with type 2 diabetes treated with metformin vs those who did not receive the drug.

Americans are putting off care, even for serious conditions, because of cost. Inflation may have driven the numbers to an all time high, a new survey suggests.

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An overall good quality of diet and higher fish intake during pregnancy were related to better language skills in 2-year-old children, according to new study.

Australian investigators found a 14% higher risk of fracture for every 1-SD increment in level of HDL-C in community dwelling healthy adults aged ≥70 years.

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This topline look at the KDIGO 2022 updated guideline highlights new recommendations for clinical use of SGLT2i, GLP-1 RA, and nonsteroidal MRA.

When counseling patients about weight gain prevention, limiting the frequency of larger meals is more beneficial than time-restricted eating, advised authors.

Ingestion of cannabis is now the cause of 1 in every 3 pediatric poisoning hospitalizations in Canadian provinces where edibles are sold legally.

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After hospital discharge for heart failure, adults treated with either furosemide or torsemide had similar mortality rates, according to results from the TRANSFORM-HF clinical trial.

The mRNA vaccine returned efficacy of 83.7% against RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease defined by ≥2 symptoms and of 82.4% against disease defined by ≥3 symptoms.

In women with osteoporosis treated with abolaparatide, trabecular bone score increased significantly, reflecting improved bone microarchitecture and strength.

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Exacerbation history alone is unlikely to provide clinical utility for predicting future COPD exacerbations and could be associated with a risk of harm, according to new analysis.

How to keep family planning conversations in primary care? First, you have to have them, says UC San Francisco professor of family community medicine, Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS.

Overall dyspnea was the most common symptom of long COVID in the first year after infection, according to the nationwide retrospective cohort study.

Clinician-directed conversations on contraception and family planning remove patients from the center of the visit which is where must be in a shared decision-making model.

In a study of 874 adults, more women were diagnosed with chronic cluster headache and experienced longer attacks compared with men.

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