A postpartum intervention that prescheduled an annual primary care provider (PCP) appointment for pregnant participants increased their likelihood of visiting their PCP within the year after delivery, according to research presented at the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine 2025 Pregnancy Meeting. Prenatal visits during pregnancy often comprise a period of “high health activation and motivation for
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Several cardiovascular risk factors, such as advanced age and smoking history, are prevalent among lung cancer patients at the time of the diagnosis and increase their risk of future heart disease, according to a new study being presented at ACC’s Advancing the Cardiovascular Care of the Oncology Patient course. Comprehensive assessments
Representative skeletal muscle T1-weighted spoiled-gradient echo images during different intervals of normoxia-hypercapnia-recovery normoxia gas stimuli in a young male control rat. Images depict the leg muscle pre-contrast injection (A), post-contrast injection after 10 min on normocapnic-normoxia (B), after 10 min on 5% CO2 (C), and after 6 min on recovery normocapnic-normoxia (D). Dotted red line
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sotagliflozin, a drug recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat type 2 diabetes and kidney disease with additional cardiovascular risk factors, can significantly reduce heart attack and stroke among these patients, according to results from an international clinical trial led by a Mount Sinai researcher. Sotagliflozin is a
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Up to half of all people living with Alzheimer’s Disease in Ireland remain undiagnosed. Now, a new blood test may have the potential to transform patient care, allowing for better diagnosis, earlier interventions and more targeted treatments. Researchers at Trinity College Dublin, the Tallaght Institute of Memory and Cognition and St
TOPLINE: A home-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program has shown similar improvements in fitness, functional capacity, and quality of life as center-based programs in optimally treated patients with heart failure (HF), with both groups demonstrating comparable exercise adherence. This supports home-based rehab as an effective alternative. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a noninferiority trial from 2019 to 2022
Tufts University, Kaiser Permanente and other healthcare organizations have launched the National Food is Medicine Network of Excellence to share best practices and measure the health outcomes and costs of produce prescription programs…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Women who have experienced pregnancy complications have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Now, a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the European Heart Journal shows that sisters of women with complicated pregnancies are also at higher risk, even if they had uncomplicated pregnancies. The findings suggest that genes and
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease. An intervention, which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally silent motor neurons in the spinal cord and improve leg muscle
MedPage Today) — Consuming 1 g of omega-3 per day may slow down the rate of biological aging in humans, a post-hoc analysis of DO-HEALTH trial data suggested. DO-HEALTH tested the effects of three daily interventions — 2,000 IU of vitamin…