A UCLA Health study suggests that a commonly used strategy in cognitive behavioral therapy can reduce activity in the brain's sensory regions in autistic children and teens.

A family medicine student recorded medical assistants’ tasks over nine days at a family medicine residency practice.

Handheld ultrasound devices’ lower image quality can make small or faint carotid plaque hard to see. Researchers in Hunan Province, China, developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that sharpens handheld ultrasound images after they are taken. Researchers then tested it in a community screening program of adults aged 40 and older.

In the U.S., 21.8% of adults receive behavioral health treatment annually. In 2024, Medicare began allowing physicians to bill Medicare for certified peer-support specialists through the introduction of principal illness navigation peer-support (PIN-PS) reimbursement codes. An interview study with 20 participants, including physicians, certified peer support specialists and leaders, policy professionals, payer representatives, and behavioral health organization leaders, examined barriers and facilitators to PIN-PS adoption.

Medicaid patients have mounting care needs, poorly managed chronic conditions and often socioeconomic barriers that keep them from preventive care. The ambulatory care department at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, a safety-net hospital serving an under-resourced, heavily Medicaid population in Queens, New York, introduced a new care delivery model to reach these patients earlier.

Pharmacies that receive federal funds must provide language support to make sure patients can understand their medication instructions. A survey of 169 outpatient prescribers at a large academic medical center found widespread uncertainty about how language support actually works.

Between 2023 and 2025, CO-OP leaders and staff made 36 “Learning Tours” visits, reaching 82 primary care sites and more than 300 clinicians, medical directors and staff across northern New England and bordering states.

More than one in five U.S. adults lives with chronic pain, which isolation and stigma can worsen. Group medical visits allow multiple patients with a common condition to receive care alongside health education and peer support. This study examined how group medical visits facilitate four types of social support: emotional, appraisal, informational, and instrumental.