DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) updated the 2019 joint clinical practice guideline (CPG) for the primary care management of asthma. This synopsis provides primary care providers with a summary of the updated 2025 recommendations regarding evaluation and management of veterans and military members with asthma.

BACKGROUND: Phase-contrast MRI (PC-MRI) offers a rapid, noninvasive technique to directly quantify flow through ventricular shunts, and it serves as an adjunct MRI sequence to inform decision-making in complex postoperative settings.

BACKGROUND: Delayed pharyngoesophageal perforation (DPEP) after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is rare but morbid, typically resulting from hardware erosion or migration. When extensive prior constructs limit complete removal, reconstruction that restores anterior column integrity while minimizing recurrent esophageal irritation is needed.

BACKGROUND: Occipital cervical fusion (OCF) is an effective method for immobilizing the cranial cervical junction (CCJ). OCF failure is uncommon but can be associated with kyphosis after laminectomy. Revision OCF after long-segment cervical laminectomy is challenging, as grafting options are more limited.

Handgrip strength is a proxy for muscular fitness, an indicator for general health status, and is associated with cardiometabolic health. The mechanisms connecting handgrip strength to skeletal muscle function are incompletely understood. We applied integrated linkage-disequilibrium (LD)-adjusted colocalization analysis of genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics for handgrip strength combined with expression and splicing quantitative trait loci from skeletal muscle and identified...