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Join ACP and your colleagues in New Orleans, LA, April 3-5, 2025, at the annual marquee educational event for internal medicine physicians and subspecialists around the globe. Together we will share in three days of unparalleled professional revitalization and make invaluable connections with our internal medicine community.

Failure to Follow-Up After Colorectal Cancer Screening Translates into Preventable Deaths: Rachel Issaka, MD, MAS
April 10, 2025

ACP 2025: Issaka, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, told internists that three-quarters of CRC deaths can be attributed to 3 types of screening failure.

Closing the Gap in Lung Cancer Screening: Overcoming Barriers, Improving Early Detection
April 09, 2025

ACP 2025: Kim Sandler, MD, outlines key strategies to boost lung cancer screening uptake in primary care.

Primary Care Primer for Headache Management, with Morris Levin, MD
April 09, 2025

ACP 2025. The director of the UCSF Headache Center built an evidence-based framework for diagnosing and treating headache disorders seen in primary care.

Navigating GLP-1 Medication Access: Coverage Challenges, Emerging Cash-Pay Options
April 08, 2025

ACP 2025: Laura Davisson, MD, outlines how PCPs can navigate GLP-1 medication coverage issues and why to consider recent cash-pay options.

Bringing Mental Health into Primary Care: A Conversation with Matthew Press, MD
April 08, 2025

ACP 2025: Dr Press explains how primary care clinicians can implement the collaborative care model to integrate mental health services, improve outcomes, and navigate reimbursement.

ASCVD in Women is Different: A Review of Pathophysiology, Risk Factors, Presentation
April 08, 2025

ACP 2025. Karol E Watson, MD, PhD, highlighted how traditional approaches to CV care have poorly addressed the unique presentations, risk factors, and pathophysiology of heart disease in women.

CVD Prevention in Older Adults: Crucial and Also Controversial
April 07, 2025

ACP 2025. Harvard gerontologist and preventive cardiologist Ariela Orkaby, MD, MPH, highlighted the many nuances required in the cardiovascular care of the aging population.

Shared Decision-Making in Lung Cancer Screening: A Collaborative Approach
April 07, 2025

ACP 2025: Kim Sandler, MD, explains how primary care physicians can use shared decision-making to guide patients through lung cancer screening, emphasizing risk, benefit, follow-up, and smoking cessation.

Benefits of Lung Cancer Screening: A Conversation with Kim Sandler, MD
April 07, 2025

ACP 2025: Kim Sandler, MD, sat down with Patient Care to discuss the benefits of lung cancer screening, citing a 20% reduction in lung cancer mortality with annual screenings.

"Allergic to Everything"
April 05, 2025

ACP 2025. Scripps Clinic's John M Kelso, MD, offered topline updates on all types of allergies including a step-by-step on how to "delabel" patients identified as penicillin-allergic.