Results from a new study in JAMA found that the Million Hearts Model, which paid participating health care organizations to assess and reduce patients’ CVD risk, decreased myocardial infarction and stroke rates for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 40 to 79 years at high or medium risk for these events.

The use of metformin among pregnant women with gestational diabetes was associated with enhanced glycemic control and reduced gestational weight gain, according to a randomized, placebo-controlled study published in JAMA.

DEA will continue to allow providers to use telemedicine to prescribe certain controlled substances through the end of 2024.

In proposed guidance published in the Federal Register, CDC is advising clinicians to offer gay and bisexual men and transgender women more access to doxycycline, a widely used tetracycline antibiotic, as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).

A new study published in JAMA Network Open found that an intervention involving patient assessments by trained pharmacists in conjunction with primary care physicians led to better glycemic control among Hispanic patients with T2D.