CHICAGO — Women leaders are still underrepresented in medicine, so now is the perfect time for them to redefine what strong leadership looks like within their communities, according to a speaker at the Women in Medicine Summit.
“Leadership is not a narrow ‘command and control’ mindset or individuals whose egos enter the room before they do and who suck all the oxygen out,” Joanne M. Conroy, MD, president and CEO of Dartmouth Health, told Healio. “Leadership is expanding the oxygen in the room and actually creating an opportunity for many people to be a part of your team.”
A report from McKinsey &

A diet high in overall quality is essential to support good cardiometabolic health, regardless of whether someone is taking a GLP-1, according to a scientific statement published by the American College of Cardiology.
The report, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, provided an overview of the role of nutrition on common CVD comorbidities; the impact of social determinants of health in optimal nutrition; recommendations for macro- and micronutrient and ultraprocessed food intake; managing nutrition in clinical practice and more.
“Nutrition science has evolved

Smoking may significantly increase risk for progression and metastases for patients with sarcoma.
The findings, presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting, showed active smokers had worse outcomes at both 2 years and 5 years, including nearly a twofold greater risk for distant metastases.
“The difference is profound,” Meena Bedi, MD, MS, division chair of radiation oncology for Cleveland Clinic Florida, told Healio.
Researchers estimate more than 18,000 individuals in the U.S. will be diagnosed with sarcoma in 2026, and 7,610 will die from the disease, according to

Transitions from peritoneal dialysis to hemodialysis were associated with greater mortality risks for patients aged 80 years and older, according to study data published in Clinical Kidney Journal.
Increasing life expectancy and improved management of chronic kidney disease has contributed to more older adults with end-stage kidney disease starting hemodialysis or PD, according to Néstor Toapanta, MD, nephrologist at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Catalonia, Spain, and colleagues. However, the optimal dialysis modality for older adults with ESKD has not been established, they wrote.
“The

Once-weekly retatrutide induced weight loss of up to 18.8% at 80 weeks for adults with type 2 diabetes plus overweight or obesity, according to findings from the phase 3 TRIUMPH-2 trial.
As Healio previously reported, adults with overweight or obesity without diabetes receiving once-weekly subcutaneous retatrutide (Eli Lilly) achieved weight loss of up to 25% at 80 weeks in the TRIUMPH-1 trial. In new data from TRIUMPH-2 presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting and simultaneously published in The Lancet, the GLP-1/glucose-dependent insulinotropic

The FDA approved a label update for Winrevair to include that it lowers the risk for clinical worsening events in adults with recently diagnosed pulmonary arterial hypertension, according to a press release from Merck.
“The results of HYPERION provide evidence for the use of Winrevair in adults diagnosed with PAH within the previous year who were receiving background therapy,” Vallerie V. McLaughlin, MD, Kim A. Eagle, MD, Endowed Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of the pulmonary hypertension program at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, said in the release.
“The addition of

Among caregivers of infants and toddlers undergoing peanut oral immunotherapy, updosing via a combination of in-office, video and phone encounters was preferred over only video or phone encounters, according to study findings.
These data were published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
“We hope our results empower allergists to offer infant and toddler peanut OIT updosing through video and telephone encounters,” S. Shahzad Mustafa, MD, division head of allergy, immunology and rheumatology at Rochester Regional Health, told Healio.
In this study, Mustafa and colleagues analyzed

For physicians from underrepresented communities, self-promotion can feel like a delicate balance: How does one own their accomplishments, expertise and leadership potential without appearing self-centered?
“Self-promotion does not mean self-centeredness. It does not mean arrogance,” Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF, from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, told Healio. “It means being able to own who you are, being comfortable with your authentic self, taking up space because you’re allowed. It’s serving an example for others who, especially within our communities, need

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