Trending Clinical Topics

Trending Clinical Topic: Nightmares and Dementia When are bad dreams a clinical concern? Recent studies suggest a possible connection to future cognitive impairment. These findings resulted in the top trending clinical topic this week.
Article, March 17, 2023
Trending Clinical Topic: Artificial Sweetener Safety The debate over whether artificial sweeteners are healthy rages on, with new findings suggesting a troubling association with cardiovascular disease risk and anxiety.
Article, March 10, 2023
Trending Clinical Topic: Intermittent Fasting New findings about intermittent fasting as an intervention for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, and gastroesophageal reflux disease led to this week's top trending clinical topic.
Article, March 03, 2023
Trending Clinical Topic: Vitamin D Benefits Promising new findings about a role for vitamin D supplementation in preventing diabetes, suicide, and melanoma resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
Article, February 24, 2023
Trending Clinical Topic: New Blood Pressure Targets Two recent guidelines have proposed aggressive new goals for various patient populations. Those changes, along with other hypertension-related news, resulted in the week's top clinical topic.
Article, February 17, 2023
Trending Clinical Topic: Slowing Memory Decline Memory decline is one of the major concerns associated with aging. Recent studies examining potential modifiable factors that may slow this process resulted in the week's top trending clinical topic.
Article, February 10, 2023
Trending Clinical Topic: Reducing Alcohol Consumption As "Dry January" comes to an end, findings about the benefits of reduced alcohol consumption may help persuade patients and doctors to curb their drinking on a more permanent basis.
Article, February 03, 2023
Trending Clinical Topic: Cannabis Screening With cannabis use on the rise during the pandemic, new guidelines about screening patients for use are noteworthy. This and related developments resulted in the week's top trending clinical topic.
Article, January 27, 2023
Trending Clinical Topic: Blood Pressure Drugs and Dementia Risk With dementia on the rise, recent findings about potential interventions are welcome news. This week, dementia-related concerns about hypertension drugs resulted in the top trending clinical topic.
Article, January 20, 2023
Trending Clinical Topic: Exercises for Spine Pain Given how common spine pain is, news about potential interventions is always of great interest. Recent findings about exercise and other treatments led to this week's top trending clinical topic.
January 13, 2023
Trending Clinical Topic: Fentanyl Vaccine As the opioid crisis rages, a new tool may soon be available. Excitement over promising findings in mice resulted in a vaccine under development becoming this week's top trending clinical topic.
December 23, 2022
Trending Clinical Topic: Exercise Prescription The benefits of exercise continue to mount. Recent findings suggest which interventions and recommendations should be passed along to patients, leading to this week's top trending clinical topic.
December 16, 2022
Trending Clinical Topic: Memory-Boosting Foods News about the benefits of flavonols for memory and cognition as well as the dangers of ultraprocessed foods resulted in a nutritional top trending clinical topic this week.
December 09, 2022
Trending Clinical Topic: Weight Loss Drugs Promising findings regarding newer weight loss medications and updated recommendations for obesity management drove interest in this week's top trending clinical topic.
December 02, 2022
Alcohol, Melatonin, and Other Top Clinical Topics of 2022 See which studies led to the most popular clinical topics of the year, with an infographic on each of the key findings.
Slideshow, November 28, 2022
Trending Clinical Topic: Meditation vs Medication Recent findings have suggested that mindfulness and meditation may be effective in confronting not only mental health concerns but also pain and even diabetes.
November 25, 2022
Trending Clinical Topic: Antibiotics for UTI News about a potential new tool against urinary tract infections, along with recent insights into prophylactic strategies, resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
November 18, 2022
Trending Clinical Topic: Vitamin B12 Potential protective benefits against Parkinson's disease, ALS, and fatty liver disease resulted in this vitamin becoming the week's top trending clinical topic.
November 11, 2022
Trending Clinical Topic: Sleep and Health Risks The importance of sleep is well known. New findings, however, suggest that it may be even more important than expected for certain conditions, leading to the top trending clinical topic this week.
November 04, 2022
Trending Clinical Topic: Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Promising news about newly developed vaccines designed to confront a leading cause of death in infants and serious illness in older adults resulted in this week's top trending clinical topic.
Article, October 28, 2022

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