March 2026

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in North Carolina, and effective management of the condition is essential to improving residents’ quality of life.

This letter refutes the “overdiagnosis” narrative, blaming the stimulant shortage on DEA regulatory failures, clinical constraints, and recognition of historical underdiagnosis.

The authors of “Overdiagnosis of Adult ADHD Is Exacerbating the Stimulant Shortage” reply to a letter to the editor.

As Medicare Advantage grows, first-time enrollees demonstrate increasing demographic and clinical diversity, indicating that benefits should be designed to reflect the population’s changing composition.

Risk-bearing provider organizations rely on physicians to achieve cost savings. The literature on physician-mediated interventions to reduce costs is scant and provides little guidance on effective strategies.

Community programs like Go for Bold improve health, but lasting, equitable gains require complementary structural food policies—including taxes, reformulation, and labeling—to shift environments and sustain change.

The Go for Bold initiative, which aims to help individuals in Washington County, Maryland, lose 1 million lb by 2030, serves as a successful, replicable model for community-wide health improvement.

Experts at a roundtable in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 19, 2025, discussed multidisciplinary strategies for obesity care, including systemic and operational barriers and scalable solutions to promote patient ownership.

Experts raise concerns that CDC childhood immunization changes could reduce vaccine uptake and weaken trust in public health guidance.