20+ hour, 44+ min ago  (726+ words) Kevin MD. com The treatment of cardiovascular diseases has advanced at an extraordinary pace over the past half-century resulting in an age-adjusted 60 percent reduction in heart disease death rates. This dramatic decline is directly attributable to primary and secondary preventive therapies…...

22+ hour, 45+ min ago  (731+ words) Kevin MD. com One prominent characteristic of medicine is its ability to repeatedly remind you to be humble. There is always something new to learn about it, and in real life patients rarely present exactly as they do in the textbook....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (706+ words) I had said those words to patients many times before. This time, they were said to me. For years, I had been the voice on the other end of that call, gently guiding patients through one of the hardest moments…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (508+ words) Partner with me on the Kevin MD platform. With over three million monthly readers and half a million social media followers, I give you direct access to the doctors and patients who matter most. Whether you need a sponsored article,…...

1+ day, 37+ min ago  (290+ words) Every week in the pediatric emergency department, I see the consequences of adolescent substance use that started too early and went unaddressed for too long. A teenager in crisis. A family blindsided. A window of prevention that closed long before…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (834+ words) Kevin MD. com Patient engagement platforms are software systems that deliver clinical information to patients and manage patient questions and concerns outside of scheduled visits, including patient portals, mobile apps, and messaging systems. After nearly a decade of watching (and studying)…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (296+ words) Globally, new HIV infections also peaked in the mid-1990s at about 3. 4 million per year and then declined to about 1. 3 million by 2024. In 2022 and 2023, about 630, 000 individuals died of AIDS-related causes. As in Western countries, the decline in world deaths reflected improved prevention…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (936+ words) On October 20, 2015, I did something unremarkable: I turned on the GPS app on my Android phone before driving to work. I had no idea that routine act would one day save my career and expose a pattern of institutional behavior…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (705+ words) Kevin MD. com A publication in Nature in April 2026 reports that N-desethyl-fluornitrazene (DFNZ), a modified nitazene and "-opioid receptor (MOR) superagonist, produced potent analgesia in rodents with less respiratory depression, weaker dopamine-linked reward signaling, lower withdrawal burden, and no clear tolerance…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (254+ words) Imagine a healthy eight-year-old boy going under general anesthesia for a routine procedure. His preanesthetic workup is unremarkable. His family history raises no flags. He receives sevoflurane, the most commonly used inhaled anesthetic in pediatric practice worldwide, and he does…...