Primary Care’s Role in Skin Cancer Detection

Expert panelists discuss the essential role of primary care in early skin cancer detection, balancing clinical judgment with emerging AI artificial intelligence tools, and more.

Postpartum Inpatient HPV Vaccination Significantly Boosts Uptake at Urban Hospital, Study Finds
May 18, 2025

An intervention that included educational materials for clinicians on a multidisciplinary prenatal and postpartum care team helped drive acceptance.

Prenatal Substance Use Counseling: Missed Opportunities for Intervention
May 18, 2025

Pregnant patients' perceptions do not match clinician certainty on abstinence counseling during pregnancy, and clinicians may not be asking patients about their partner's substance use.

Study Reveals Major Gaps in Thyroid Screening During Pregnancy
May 18, 2025

Researchers report an alarming number of missed opportunities to screen pregnant individuals for thyroid disease, including among women with a history of the condition.

Joy Baker, MD: Understanding Patient Language in PPD Screening
May 17, 2025

ACOG 2025: Dr Baker shares how language can help create a trusting space for patients to speak openly about postpartum depression.

Postpartum Depression and the Missed Hand-Off to Primary Care
May 17, 2025

ACOG 2025: Joy Baker, MD, called for stronger cross-specialty collaboration to address maternal mental health after birth.

ACOG 2025: Steven Fleischman, MD, Inaugurated as 76th President, Urges New Fellows to Lead with Purpose
May 17, 2025

Steven Fleischman, MD, was inaugurated as ACOG’s 76th president, urging new fellows to lead with purpose and recognize their value in women’s health care.

FDA Clears First Plasma-Based Assay to Aid Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis
May 17, 2025

The diagnostic is designed to help clinicians determine the likelihood of cerebral β-amyloid plaque deposition, one of the neuropathologic hallmarks of AD.

Primary Care Falls Short in Managing Adolescent Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, Researchers Warn
May 17, 2025

Fewer than half of females who experienced heavy menstrual bleeding were given hormonal treatment, and far fewer were referred to gynecology, authors reported.

GLP1-RAs Superior to Metformin for CVD Risk Reduction in Women with PCOS, Large Study Finds
May 17, 2025

The findings support the potential cardiovascular advantages of the GLP-1RA class in women with PCOS, a population already at increased cardiometabolic risk.

Study Identifies 6 Components of a Pregnancy Exercise Program that Reduce Risk of Poor Perinatal Outcomes
May 17, 2025

While exercise is beneficial during pregnancy and ACOG recommends 150 mins/week, this is the first study to examine benefits of specific regimen elements on their own.