With the right combination of patient engagement, patient outreach, and medication adherence, Paul Lovely, the executive director at the CARE Center at Dignity Health, said it's completely realistic ...

A new Canadian guideline on HIV prevention emphasizes the patient’s role in decisions related to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) prescriptions. It also highlighted ...

In many institutions, when a patient is scheduled for surgery, the patient is contacted before the procedure and given instructions as to how to prepare for the surgery. This may be done by staff from ...

The term for a patient who lists their questions was likely coined in the late 19th century in the clinic of Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière. Known as la maladie du petit papier, or the illness ...

Hospitals have had success applying remote patient monitoring to chronic conditions to help track signs of a patient’s improving or worsening condition between medical appointments. Patients with ...

Open bottle of prescription PrEP Pills for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis to help protect people from HIV. Intervention links at-risk patients from sexually transmitted infection screening to HIV PrEP ...

Sept. 7, 2023, News Staff — An updated final recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force calls for clinicians to prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis with effective antiretroviral ...

Dr. Chung asks what operational changes practices should prioritize to prepare for an expanding hepatitis B treatment ...

Mauston, Wisconsin-based Mile Bluff Medical Center clinicians faced numerous challenges due to the overwhelming amount of data they encountered daily. This data, found in various formats, including ...

The draft — given an A grade, the task force’s highest — recommends that clinicians prescribe PrEP with effective antiretroviral therapy to people at increased risk of acquiring HIV. The task force ...

Reviewed by Carrie D. Johnston, MD, MS, Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Taking HIV prevention medication (pre-exposure ...

Long-acting CAB+RPV is preferred by patients for ART due to reduced dosing frequency and stigma, with 89% switching after viral suppression. Studies like PILLAR and EBONI confirm the effectiveness and ...