General Practitioner

Albuminuria screening in patients at risk for CKD in primary care, when combined with standard opportunistic screening, shows a satisfactory participation rate and effectiveness when conducted by GPs.

Health officials are worried that measles cases in at least 12 states may be a harbinger of outbreaks of other preventable diseases.

Familiar from the Covid era, the tests are becoming incredibly versatile, with potential uses including detecting killers such as strokes and sepsis

Experts say incorporating mental health support into obesity care is critical for effective and sustained outcomes. How can busy physicians integrate such care?

The So Hot Right Now conference will put the spotlight on dosages advocated by three headline speakers whose claims are disputed by other experts

Doctors don't know enough about how to treat women during menopause, Halle Berry says. It's why she launched a new health company, Respin.

Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia, post-traumatic headache have strong links

From Apple and Samsung to Oura and Withings, the health tech space is changing to not only deliver insights into a person's health but also connect them with medical professionals.

You can get the best from the chatbots—and stay away from the worst—if you know how to work them. Here's how to use them to take charge of your health.

Study of GP records finds prevalence rose from one in 60,000 in 2011 to one in 1,200 in 2021 – but numbers still low overall

Obesity, long determined by the flawed metric of BMI, should be diagnosed based on other measurements and tests, experts argue.

Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia have some of the highest childhood vaccination rates. Experts worry a rising tide of vaccine skepticism is causing those bright spots to dim.

The diagnosis rate for black men was found to be 1.5 times higher and they were also 14% less likely to receive life-saving treatments

Tool uses machine learning to analyse medical data for red flags relating to undiagnosed atrial fibrillation

Report highlights 'shocking' example of man left unable to swallow after waiting over two days mostly on a bed in a corridor without regular medication

Apps such as Mend, ketamine-therapy centers such as StrIVeMD, and retreat locations such as the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health apply psychology and technology to dating challenges. Jennifer Wilson reports.

Medicines like doxy PEP, HIV PrEP, and the HPV vaccine can be in each family physician's toolbox.

Redundancies in gout remission criteria from 2016 led to a vote at a meeting of the Gout Hyperuricemia and Crystal-Associated Disease Network for newly refined criteria for remission.

In less than three weeks since the election, Trump has announced decisions for almost his entire Cabinet.

With brand-name GLP-1s for obesity treatment on and off the shortage list, prescribing can get complicated. Five providers told us how they cope.