Andrew Rhoades

ACOG released updated clinical guidance on the screening and prevention of HIV, recommending several strategies and processes that could help lower the incidence of the virus.The guidance states that health care professionals recommend an HIV test at least once to all their patients through an opt-out approach.

GLP-1 receptor agonists were associated with a higher risk for eye complications vs. other diabetes medications, two studies recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine show. Prior evidence on the ties between eye complications and GLP-1s has been mixed. A 2025 analysis indicated that semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy, Novo Nordisk) and tirzepatide (Zepbound, Eli Lilly) raise the risk for

CHICAGO — A noninvasive blood-based test identified cases of endometriosis that were missed by imaging, data at the Endocrine Society annual meeting show.“One of the greatest challenges with endometriosis is timely diagnosis,” Farideh Bischoff, PhD, chief medical officer of HerAnova Life Sciences, the device’s manufacturer, told Healio. “Today, women are experiencing

Two new reports showed that even small amounts of alcohol daily raise the risk for death and a dozen other adverse health outcomes.And while one analysis suggested that lower alcohol intake potentially reduced the risks for diseases like diabetes, the strength of these associations — which were reversed at higher levels of consumption — were small.

ACP has published living clinical guidance to help physicians select medications for patients with overweight or obesity. Unhealthy weight remains a significant public health issue globally, with 68.5% of American adults and 59% of adults worldwide having overweight or obesity, according to Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, MHA, MGIN, MRCP, FACP, ACP chief science officer and senior vice president of

ACOG released its 2026 maternal immunization schedule, which for the first time differs from recommendations by federal health agencies, according to the organization.“It’s important that patients and clinicians have access to a trusted, evidence-based maternal immunization schedule, and ACOG is pleased to be able to provide that at a time where there is so much confusion and

JAMA Network announced a new resource called JAMA+ Trials that is “designed to elevate the visibility, accessibility and understanding of trusted clinical trial research across medicine,” according to a press release.The platform features a searchable collection of recent trials across the JAMA Network’s 13 journals, a rotating set of trial themes designed to stimulate

Injuries, infectious diseases, cancers and liver diseases are partly or fully attributable to alcohol. Some diseases can be reversed or slowed with reduced drinking or abstinence.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired the chair and vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, according to letters obtained by Healio. The vice chair was Esa M. Davis, MD, MPH, FAAFP, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the chair was John B. Wong, MD, MACP, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Prescribing rates for leucovorin among youth with autism was 24-fold higher in November 2025 compared with the average prescribing rate from January 2023 to January 2025, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open. Joshua “Yoshi” Rothman, MD, MS, a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, told