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Family Practice: A more balanced, not just negative narrative based on data and evidence [Secondary data analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Concerns about family practice are well-founded, but also negatively biased. This can fuel poor impressions among medical students and dispirit practicing family physicians. CaRMS covers all residency programs in Canada (2,937 applicants in 2023). Study Design and Analysis: Descriptive analysis.

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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. Comparatively, physicians in general practice were more likely to see patients for mental health, chronic disease, and preventive care.

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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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Association between family medicine residents practice intentions and their initial professional activities [Secondary data analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Exiting cohorts of FM residents from 2016 to 2020 (average cohort n=862, average response rate=60%) and corresponding early career FPs at three years post-residency, from 2019 to 2023 (average n=318, average response rate=20%). These findings offer insight into how residency training influences the practice choices of early career FPs.

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Prescribing ADHD Meds by Telehealth Does Not Alter Risk for Substance Use Disorder Overall

Physician's Weekly

25, 2023, to examine whether receiving an initial prescription for ADHD from a provider who the patient has never seen in person is associated with an increased risk for stimulant use disorder (stimUD) or other SUDs. Vinod Rao, M.D.,

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Hyperinsulinemia Linked to Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

Physician's Weekly

from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study from June 2019 to August 2023 at a single institution’s outpatient gynecology clinic involving 205 premenopausal women aged 18 to 54 years: 116 with AUB and 89 with normal menstrual cycles. Salcedo, D.O.,

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‘Gas Station Heroin’ Spurs Spike in Poison Control Calls, FDA Warns

Physician's Weekly

Between 2018 and 2023, tianeptine-related calls to U.S. .” She emphasized that people dealing with depression, anxiety, pain or opioid addiction should see a health care professional to get an approved treatment. poison control centers skyrocketed 525%, according to a data analysis published earlier this year.

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