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Navigating GLP-1 Medication Access: Coverage Challenges, Emerging Cash-Pay Options
April 8th 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 8th 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 8th 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 7th 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 7th 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 7th 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 5th 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.
Peripheral Arterial Disease in the US: Amputation is Not the Answer
April 5th 2025
Foluso A. Fakorede, MD, sketched a disturbing picture of recognition and management of PAD in the US, highlighting stark racial and ethnic disparities and making an urgent call to action.
Colorectal Cancer Screening in 2025: Disparities Remain Persistent and Significant
April 4th 2025
The highest CRC mortality rates occur at the “intersection of race, place, and class," Rachel Issaka, MD, MAS, told internal medicine clinicians at the annual ACP meeting.
Switching to Tirzepatide Outweighs Escalating Dulaglutide Dose in T2D: SURPASS-SWITCH Trial
April 4th 2025
Breaking research presented at ACP Internal Medicine 2025 showed that switching GLP1-RAs resulted in better glucose and weight control among adults with inadequately controlled T2D.