Curating evidence-based lifestyle recommendations is key to achieving ideal cardiometabolic health in patients with obesity, as there is no “one-size-fits-all,” according to a presentation. At World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Pam R. Taub, MD, discussed evidence-based dietary and lifestyle recommendations for cardiometabolic health; potential for intermittent fasting as an intervention in patients with cardiometabolic disease; and nutritional considerations for patients taking a GLP-1 receptor agonist. “We have to curate what lifestyle interventions our
CHICAGO — Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and diabetes who received sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors exhibited decreased mortality rates but increased rates of nephritis, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence 2025. “SLE increases the risk for cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney involvement and metabolic complications; and diabetes further amplifies these risks,” Rusudan Tskitishvili, MD, an internal medicine resident at Virtua Health, in Camden, New Jersey, told Healio. “Although SGLT2 inhibitors show strong cardiorenal benefits in general
Enhanced premium tax credits, which have made Affordable Care Act coverage more accessible, will likely expire at the end of this year, which could lead to skyrocketing health care costs for many Americans. Dueling health care bills failed in the Senate on Dec. 11. Senators rejected both a bill to extend the tax credits for 3 years and an alternate plan that would have created new health savings accounts for consumers to put toward out-of-pocket costs, according to the Associated Press. The AP noted the arguments against each: some said the Democrat-backed extension legislation is too expensive
“Deepfake doctors” present a threat to patient trust, medicine’s most valuable currency, and regulations must be implemented to protect public health, according to an expert. At its Interim Meeting of the House of Delegates in November, the AMA adopted a policy to expand AI training across the medical education continuum and approved a resolution to create safeguards to protect both physicians and patients from deepfake technology “in the face of what supporters say is a ‘regulatory void,’” according to an AMA press release. Deepfake impersonators of physicians boast millions of views on social
Presence of uterine fibroids was associated with increased risk for atherosclerotic heart disease compared with absence of uterine fibroids, researchers reported. Patients with uterine fibroids — benign gynecological tumors impacting more than 26 million premenopausal U.S. women — may require targeted preventive CV care, according to study findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. “There is an urgent need to identify female-specific risk factors for CVD. Presently, death due to CVD is the leading cause of mortality among females in the U.S. and
An FDA expert panel on testosterone therapy for men expressed interest in expanding the indication for testosterone therapy, eliminating some of its contraindications and removing its status as a Schedule III controlled substance. “Testosterone deficiency is an important medical condition that adversely affects a man’s health, quality of life and risk of mortality,” Mohit Khera, MD, MBA, MPH, professor of urology at Baylor College of Medicine and co-moderator of the panel discussion, said during the hearing. “Large randomized controlled trials and observational studies have demonstrated the
Children with a high genetic risk for type 2 diabetes who were also exposed to maternal gestational diabetes are more likely to develop impaired glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes, according to a speaker. Data published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in 2020 showed that the incidence of type 2 diabetes among children in the U.S. increased from 2002 to 2015. Abigayil C. Dieguez, MD, assistant professor of pediatric endocrinology at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said several previously
Ambient listening documentation may soon become integral to clinical practice as AI advances reshape care delivery. Ambient scribes are poised to become one of the fastest technology adoptions in health care history, according to a March 2025 report on the adoption of AI in health care from the Peterson Health Technology Institute AI Taskforce. “In an industry with notoriously long sales cycles and implementation timelines, there is no technology in recent memory that has been adopted more enthusiastically by clinicians or has scaled so uncharacteristically fast, absent a regulatory mandate,”
Several changes in the 2026 Medicare Physicians Fee Schedule, or PFS, will help to better support primary, preventive and comprehensive health care, according to several organizations. For example, the PFS introduces an efficiency adjustment that ACP said “will help account for how clinical practices and resource utilization patterns evolve and better align payments with those changes.” The Primary Care Collaborative similarly applauded practice expense reimbursement reform, as well as improvements to the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program and Advanced Primary Care Management
About one in eight adults say they are taking a GLP-1 receptor agonist as a treatment for obesity, diabetes or another chronic condition, according to a new KFF Health Tracking Poll. In this Beneath the Surface interview series, Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE, FAAD, the James J. Leyden Professor of Clinical Investigation and professor of dermatology and epidemiology at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and Healio Dermatology’s Chief Medical Editor, spoke with Fatima C. Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, MACP, FAAP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS, an obesity medicine physician-scientist at
I am here to tell you something that we do not discuss outside the walls of Healio and the parent company, The Wyanoke Group. It is our “secret sauce” to what we do and how we built Healio AI. Healio AI launched on Nov. 4. Another generative AI tool, you say? Yes, Healio had the audacity to build a generative AI tool when behemoths already exist for both the general public and health care, the arena that Healio serves. Healio’s secret sauce for Healio AI is a mantra we created in 2010 and guides everything we create. In 2010, we began the ideation of “one big site” that would later be named
Resistant hypertension remains a tough adversary in the fight against the global rise of cardiovascular disease, but updated guidance, new tools and new drugs on the horizon provide hope. Hypertension remains the leading cause of death and disability globally, and its prevalence among U.S. adults is 46.7%, according to the 2025 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Multisociety Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults published in August. For middle-aged adults, the lifetime risk for incident hypertension is
The American Osteopathic Association announced it has filed a lawsuit challenging an American Board of Internal Medicine policy which limits opportunities for internal medicine physicians and residents. According to the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the policy blocks qualified residents and fellows from taking the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) board certification exams “not because of their competence” but due to their program directors being certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine (AOBIM) instead of the ABIM. An AOA press release said the
NEW ORLEANS — Social determinants of health and disease complexity were both key factors influencing gaps in care for congenital heart disease, and a novel AI model may help physicians identify those at highest risk, a speaker reported. Researchers developed a machine learning model to identify patients with congenital heart disease who may be at risk for experiencing gaps in their lifetime continuous care and presented the results at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. “In the field of congenital heart disease, what we have learned is that these gaps start to happen around
New recommendations on glycemic management for people with cancer, continuous glucose monitoring and the use of glucose-lowering therapies are among the biggest updates in the American Diabetes Association’s 2026 Standards of Care. The ADA released its annual Standards of Care on Dec. 8. The document contained evidence-based recommendations for all aspects of diabetes care and “serves as a comprehensive resource to clinicians, researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders,” according to the introduction section. Raveendhara Bannuru, MD, PhD, FAGE, vice president of medical affairs at the ADA
DALLAS — Blue Zones and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine developed a certification process designed to equip physicians with tools to address chronic disease using evidence-based lifestyle medicine interventions. The course combines the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s (ACLM’s) expertise in therapeutic lifestyle medicine, like optimal nutrition, physical activity and stress management, with Blue Zones’ information on regions of the world, dubbed “blue zones,” that are heavily populated with people who experience lasting longevity and
NEW ORLEANS — Use of myocardial blood flow from stress MRI improved diagnosis of chest pain and improved quality of life in patients with angina and nonobstructive coronary artery disease, a speaker reported. For patients with angina and nonobstructive CAD, functional testing in addition to coronary angiography could improve chest pain burden, especially among women for whom diagnosis of ischemia with no obstructed coronary arteries (INOCA) remains a clinical gap, according to a presentation. The results of the prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled, double-blind superiority CorCMR
It’s been nearly 1 year since Healio Community opened its proverbial doors to health care professionals looking to connect with colleagues and support their personal and professional wellness. As the first year comes to an end, the Healio Community team is looking back at highlights and looking forward to what’s to come. We hope you’ll join us. Some of the most important topics for our members center on personal and professional growth and wellness. From Book Club author chats to actionable webinars, here are the most attended events of 2025: Author Chat with Eric Topol, MD: Super Agers In this
The number of head CT scans used during ER visits increased from 7.8 million in 2007 to 16 million between 2007 and 2022, but there were disparities based on race, age, insurance and geography, according to a study published in Neurology. One-third of the approximately 80 million CT scans ordered each year in the U.S. are ordered in EDs, according to Layne Dylla, MD, PhD, MS, assistant professor, department of emergency medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, and colleagues. “We’re seeing this huge uptick in the number of CT scans we’re doing in general, but specifically for head
SAN DIEGO — Forty-three percent of medical residents report using generative AI-based tools daily, but many expressed concerns about overreliance or proper use of AI, according to data presented at AIMed25. Healio previously fielded its own study on AI usage for clinicians, finding that two-thirds of health care professionals reported trust with AI tools, but nearly half infrequently double-checked their answers. Now, data from Jesse P. Caron, MD, general surgery resident at AdventHealth Orlando, and colleagues showed how residents are using AI across various health specialties, including
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