Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context In 2018, 63.1% Setting The North of Lanaudière University Family Medicine Group (U-FMG) Intervention Upon referral from their family doctor, patients attend a group course on nutrition and metabolic health. Population Studied Patients with obesity enrolled in the Méta-Santé clinic.
Annals of Family Medicine
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Although authorship inequity has been shown in other specialties, the current status of authorship in family medicine has not been examined. Descriptive statistics were computed to summarize the proportion of first and senior authors by the articles’ study location and publication characteristics.
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Common Sense Family Doctor
APRIL 12, 2025
Although on the surface these are unchanged from the 2018 version —recommending screening in all women 65 years or older and postmenopausal women younger than 65 years at increased risk for an osteoporotic fracture and finding insufficient evidence to screen men—an accompanying editorial noted a small, but significant, difference.
Common Sense Family Doctor
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Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs.
Common Sense Family Doctor
MAY 11, 2025
A less heralded ruling with health implications occurred in 2018, when the Roberts Court held that a prior federal law forbidding states to legalize sports betting was unconstitutional. This decision led to the rapid proliferation of online sports gambling platforms and their ubiquitous television advertisements.
Common Sense Family Doctor
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
In the introduction, Ratner conveys the fury of two grandparents at their adult daughter for refusing measles vaccination for their granddaughter, who becomes one of the first of hundreds of New York City children to be hospitalized for measles in a 2018-19 outbreak: What happened between those two generations, the vaccine-hesitant mother and her own (..)
Common Sense Family Doctor
MARCH 23, 2025
This post first appeared on March 6, 2018, during the first Trump administration's failed attempt to eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Update: the NGC ceased operating in 2018.] Now the Department of Government Efficiency is trying again, threatening 90% staff reductions that would decimate the agency.
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