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Mean Age of Moms at First Birth Increased From 2016 to 2023

Physician's Weekly

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — From 2016 to 2023, there was an increase in the mean age of mothers at first birth and at higher-order births, according to the June 13 National Vital Statistics Reports , a publication from the National Center for Health Statistics. Brown, Ph.D., Brown, Ph.D., All rights reserved.

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Changes in Family Medicine Department Research Funding Between 2016 and 2021 [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context In 2016 and 2021, ADFM sent out a survey to departments of Family Medicine to understand research activities. Objective Identify changes in research capacity of family medicine departments between the years of 2016 and 2021. Study Design Secondary data analysis. Twenty-seven percent (27%) received funding from fewer agencies.

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Liver cancer patients see longer survival with dual immunotherapy approach

Medical Xpress

A research team from the School of Clinical Medicine of the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has pioneered the use of a 'dual immunotherapy' combination—nivolumab and ipilimumab (NIVO+IPI)—in the treatment of liver cancer patients since 2016.

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Improving Scholarship in a Community Hospital Residency Program with a Curriculum featuring a Structured Roadmap, Indi [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Scholarly output of residents graduating between 2016-2018 (pre-intervention) was compared to those graduating from 2019 -2021 (post-intervention). Results Between July 2016 and 2021, thirty-one Family-Medicine residents graduated from the program.

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Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

All fee-for-service physicians who billed at least 1 OHIP claim from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 and from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 under their clinic group codes were included. Provincial administrative claims data was obtained from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP).

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Predictors of exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec, Canada [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Drug reimbursement claims were used to identify periods of overlapping exposure to 2 or more prescription drugs between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016. Study design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study using provincial administrative health databases. DDI were identified using the list of high-priority DDI of the U.S.

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Smoking in pregnancy has declined by a third since 2016

Medical Xpress

There's good news for American mothers-to-be and their newborns: Rates of smoking during pregnancy have fallen by 36% since 2016, a new report finds.

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