News and Updates for Healthcare Professionals

As a new administration moves into the White House, so will a new cabinet with differing healthcare priorities, strategies, and goals. Healthcare isn’t exempt from change generated by a new political paradigm.

New evidence–based clinical practice guidelines from the Alzheimer’s Association provide updated recommendations on evaluating individuals suspected of having Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related neurodegenerative disorders in both primary and specialty care settings.

This is an update of the original Cochrane review, published in 2017. Eight out of 10 major antihypertensive trials in adults, 65 years of age or older, attempted to achieve a target systolic blood pressure (BP) of < 160 mmHg. Collectively, these trials demonstrated cardiovascular benefit for treatment, compared to…

Heart failure (HF) is characterized by significant symptoms, compromised quality of life, frequent hospital admissions, and high mortality rates; palliative care (PC) is, therefore, highly relevant for patients with HF and their clinicians. Multiple guidelines and consensus statements recommend the provision of PC alongside HF management.

Ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes lead to significant disability but, most important, are preventable. The 2024 primary prevention of stroke guideline provides recommendations based on current evidence for strategies to prevent stroke throughout the life span. These recommendations align with the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 for optimizing cardiovascular and…

AHRQ’s growing effort to address steep challenges in the delivery of high-quality primary care is the subject of a new AHRQ Views blog post. In the U.S. today, primary care clinicians are battling burnout, and patients are losing access to high-quality coordinated, comprehensive, and continuous care. As we celebrate National…

MADRID — Individuals with type 2 diabetes and/or obesity plus one or more metabolic risk factors are at a higher risk for metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) with fibrosis and progression to more severe liver disease, stated new European guidelines that provide recommendations for diagnosis and management.

Guidelines evaluate and summarize available evidence with the aim of assisting health professionals in proposing the best diagnostic or therapeutic approach for an individual patient with a given condition. Guidelines are intended for use by health professionals and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) makes its Guidelines freely available.

Guidelines evaluate and summarize available evidence with the aim of assisting health professionals in proposing the best diagnostic or therapeutic approach for an individual patient with a given condition. Guidelines are intended for use by health professionals and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) makes its guidelines freely available.

Heart failure (HF) affects nearly 6.7 million Americans, and its prevalence continues to increase.1-3 Inpatient admissions for HF are associated with high mortality, and readmissions and subsequent health events are common.4,5 Although symptoms often improve rapidly during HF hospitalization, episodes of worsening HF nevertheless may mark a fundamental change in…