The number of physicians who matched in fellowship programs for adult infectious diseases declined in 2025, according to Match Day stats released in December.
In all, 272 physicians matched with adult ID programs last year — nearly a 14% drop from 2024, when 316 physicians matched. Only 45% of fellowship programs for adult ID were filled in 2025, compared with 51% the previous year.
Pediatric ID remained steady, going from 43 matches in 2024 to 44 last year.
Except for a surge of ID applicants in 2021 — sometimes called “the Fauci effect” — the specialty has historically struggled to recruit

President Donald J. Trump announced a health care framework that he said will lower drug prices and insurance premiums and hold insurance companies accountable by improving price transparency.
He called on Congress to pass the framework into law “without delay.”
“Instead of putting the needs of big corporations and special interests first, our plan finally puts you first and puts more money in your pocket,” Trump said in a video. “It’s called the ‘Great Healthcare’ because it’s great health care at a lower price.”
According to a White House fact sheet, the “Great Healthcare Plan” proposes

A 43-year-old woman with a past medical history significant for HIV complicated by cryptococcal meningitis and seizures presented to the ED after suffering a seizure and syncope.
The following day she started complaining of left shoulder pain, and an orthopedic evaluation revealed posterior shoulder dislocation. As the patient was unable to tolerate an axillary view, anterior-posterior and scapular-Y radiographs were performed (Figures 1 and 2), demonstrating posterior dislocation of the shoulder. This was later confirmed with a CT scan of the left shoulder, which also demonstrated a reverse

Individuals who achieved a BMI of less than 25 kg/m2 in the SURMOUNT trials of tirzepatide also experienced significant improvement in predicted 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk, researchers reported.
Participants who achieved a BMI of less than 25 kg/m2 were more likely to be assigned to tirzepatide (Zepbound, Eli Lilly) vs. placebo, to be women and to have lower baseline BMI compared with those who did not, according to the study.
A pooled analysis of three tirzepatide trials — SURMOUNT-1, SURMOUNT-3 and SURMOUNT-CN — evaluating the impact of achieving lower BMI

“Dry January” is an opportunity for primary care providers to open up a conversation around alcohol use, according to an expert.
Dry January is a trend that encourages cutting out alcohol — or cutting back — for a month after the holidays, when overindulging is much more common.
According to a survey conducted by Drive Research that included 1,000 adults in the U.S., one in three people over the age of 21 years participated in Dry January in 2025, with 72% successfully completing the challenge. Additionally, 15% of people participated in “Damp January,” where alcohol intake is reduced, which is

Mu Medical, a medical technology company aiming to support “the full life cycle of ocular care,” is set to be formed out of a partnership between Nanodropper, Bedo Solutions and Viseon Labs, according to a press release from Nanodropper.
“The overarching goal of Mu Medical is to bring precision and personalization to ophthalmology across the full care continuum — from how a therapy is delivered, to how it’s used at home, to how treatment decisions are informed,” the company said in a statement to Healio.
A planned consolidation will integrate the three companies’

Nearly one-third of patients who responded to a survey did not understand common skin cancer terms frequently used by dermatologists, signaling a need for improved patient education during clinical encounters.
Ongoing issues such as staff shortages and increasing demands have made time constraints common in clinical practice, often requiring health care professionals to perform certain tasks quickly. However, patient education should not be one of those tasks, according to Katherine Brag, MD, associate program director of Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency and director of cutaneous

The need to rapidly, accurately and faithfully transmit brain wave activity via electroencephalogram when a specialist cannot be seen in a timely manner is a significant unmet need in clinical neurology.
One solution is a noninvasive, portable and wearable in-ear electroencephalogram (EEG) device for patients aged 6 years and older that allows for transmission of such data remotely and in real time.
Healio spoke with Marc Vaillaud, MD, clinical innovations director at Paris-based Naox Technologies, to find out more about the potential of this new platform to enable faster consultations with

For the past several years, millions of Americans have relied on a policy many are not familiar with: enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that made health insurance affordable.
Those subsidies are now expiring, and they only made the national spotlight during the latest government shutdown. The consequences will be swift, severe and widely felt not just by patients, but also by an already strained health care system.
Millions will lose coverage. Hospitals already on the brink will face financial and operational strain, recreating the all-too-familiar scene of families sitting for hours in

High levels of screen time before age 2 years were linked to slower decision-making and increased anxiety in teenage years, according to an observational cohort study published in The Lancet.
“Early screen exposure may matter not only for short-term behavior, but also for longer-term brain development and mental health,” study author Ai Peng Tan, MD, FRCR, MMed, principal scientist from the Translational Neuroscience program at the A*STAR Institute for Human Development and Potential and an assistant professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in Singapore, told Healio.
The study