Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Five electronic databases were searched: MEDLINE, CINAHL Cochrane Library, Web of science, SCOPUS and Google scholar Population Studied: We included all clinical trials examining the impact of vitamin D supplementation on LBP, regardless of the form, dosage, or route of administration, and featuring a placebo control group.

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Sound Physicians

APRIL 28, 2025

While we’ve earned our reputation over the decades for our clinical excellence in hospital medicine , we’ve also earned — somewhat unfairly — a reputation for being more expensive than our competitors. We take on significant financial risk across temp labor, clinical performance, clinician quality, payer collection, and fluctuation in volume.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

In this article, we will consider the digital health tools that are facilitating cough monitoring. It’s going to transform the whole clinical approach for this common and chronic symptom. One example is the clinically validated VitaloJAK. If you’ve guessed 4.6

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Artificial intelligence Already, dentists employ software to get insights into clinical decision-making, but AI is changing the face of dentistry, just like it is in many other fields. We’ve all been through this as a kid and childhood memories stick with us, just recalling this might send a shiver down your spine.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 21, 2025

Clinics offered both voluntary and involuntary care and had varying levels of Safewards implementation. The results showed that psychiatrists’ participation in Safewards and quality improvement activities was shaped by their professional identity and clinical setting.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

“The specific aim of the Commission was to establish objective criteria for disease diagnosis, aiding clinical decision making and prioritization of therapeutic interventions and public health strategies,” wrote W. People with confirmed obesity status should be assessed for clinical obesity. Timothy Garvey, MD, and colleagues.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Source: thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00013-5/abstract The post Standardizing Outcomes for Fecal Incontinence first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

The following is a summary of “Clinical and imaging strategies for the assessment of the ocular side effects of systemic targeted anti-cancer therapies,” published in the April 2025 issue of the European Journal of Cancer by Michaels et al.

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AMMD

MAY 6, 2025

In this article, I explore how to support women again at every stage. EstroProtect is specially formulated with clinical doses of DIM (diindolylmethane) and calcium-D-glucarate to aid in metabolizing estrogen, which may help reduce the occurrence of estrogen dominance. Aging is not a decline; it is a shift.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 10, 2025

We consider such collaborations in this article. Subsequently, they can aid in designing clinical trials with adequate patients. Recently, among leadership circles , the following quote has been making rounds : “We are the last generation of leaders who will only lead people. The next generation will lead people and agents.”

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

I therefore reviewed the main research studies and guidelines and tried to summarize them briefly and clearly in this article. Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? How effective are GLP-1 analogs for weight loss? over 40 months (ARR).

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Sound Physicians

JUNE 16, 2025

Intentional workflows: You have to be intentional about integration—training, performance reviews, and establishing key performance indicators are foundational to success. Posted in Emergency Medicine , Hospital Medicine Share Article Subscribe to the Sound Physicians Blog A trusted source for todays healthcare needs.

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AMMD

MARCH 10, 2025

In this article, I’ll share ten tips for addressing the root causes of thyroid hair loss and getting your hair back to being full and shiny! 1) In my article, Understanding Your Thyroid Test Results , I explain what each of these blood tests measures. It was horrifying and depressing. What Does Thyroid Hair Loss Look Like?

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AMMD

MAY 6, 2025

In this article, you’ll learn how to easily transition into this next chapter of your life with non-hormonal therapies to help women move through menopause with ease. Menopause is not just a hormonal milestone; it’s a whole-body transition. After going through the change myself, I know how uncomfortable it menopausal symptoms can be.

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Edge Family Medicine

JUNE 23, 2025

Our Upland clinic offers: Year-round skin checks and preventive care Personalized sun safety and hydration guidance Screening and treatment for sun-related skin damage Book an appointment today to discuss your sun safety plan , and stay protected all summer long. At Edge Family Medicine , we want your family to enjoy the outdoors safely.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Gonzalez — The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently published a series of articles as part of its special report “What’s Ahead for Artificial Intelligence.” Three of these articles focus on medical applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) and explore FDA’s role in regulating such products.

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Sound Physicians

JUNE 9, 2025

Family practitioners hold critical knowledge about that patient’s health history to help guide a more successful stay in the hospital. Posted in Hospital Medicine Share Article Subscribe to the Sound Physicians Blog A trusted source for todays healthcare needs. So, what’s the best strategy to help reduce length of stay (LOS)?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

However, as the authors point out, it is likely that combining drugs with differing mechanisms of action will likely lead to greater clinical benefit. As a result, completing clinical trials of the new drugs as stand-alone and combination therapy is really important. PW: Why was it important to do this study?

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ABIM

MAY 7, 2025

Read Full Article Close Article Important certification and MOC dates Enrollment and Registration Enrollment for all assessments is currently open. This is your chance to help ABIM shape assessments in your discipline. If you have any questions about the blueprint review, feel free to reach out at ABIMBlueprintReview@abim.org.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 12, 2025

Sometimes, their private visions diverge from their public ones, and this article shares what they won’t admit publicly through four lenses. Some 3D printed drugs made strides some years ago by getting FDA approvals and undergoing clinical trials. It can screen more than 2.8

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

From these conversations, they identified four general “themes”: (1) consistent learning efforts, (2) rigorous skills development, (3) developing “habits of the mind,” and (4) seeking out clinically rich working environments. These clinicians recount rigorous efforts directed towards improving their knowledge and clinical skills.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 12, 2025

In the two years since publication of the latest American Family Physician review article on osteoporosis , new guidelines and research studies have enhanced management of this common condition. Not only is it difficult to clinically predict osteoporosis risk, fragility fractures can occur in patients without osteoporosis.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2019

Welcome back, Clinical Problem Solvers! Clinical Manifestations We often think of GPA as a pulmonary-renal syndrome, but, while many patients develop renal complications, a much smaller percentage present with them. Some of our favorite articles on the topic are listed below.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

These articles will take another look at the content included in this episode. NASEMSO: Clinical care and restraint of agitated or combative patients by emergency medical service practitioners. It is also episode 4 in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.”

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Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

While we primarily partner with our own Sound specialty teams , we also work independently with employed and other outsourced clinical teams. Posted in Critical Care Share Article Subscribe to the Sound Physicians Blog A trusted source for todays healthcare needs.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

In the article, the researchers note that a minimum of 26 contact hours with the family is required for optimal prevention. The 2023 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Clinical Practice Guidelines has a section that discusses different approaches (eg, virtual visits, including allied providers, thinking about community programs, etc.).

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 1, 2025

That’s how often Chelsea Mulheron finds herself asking women in her clinic about their family history of cancer. As a breast cancer health clinical care nurse navigator, Chelsea not only serves as a registered nurse at NMC, but also as a patient advocate, guiding individuals through the complexities of the healthcare system.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

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. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only. A recent analysis of the U.S.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The District Court in this case, which came to the opposite conclusion and is now reversed, was a notable outlier in a string of cases in other circuits upholding FDA’s authority to regulate stem cell clinics on similar grounds as the Ninth Circuit did here. Stem Cell Clinic, LLC , 998 F.3d Regenerative Sciences, LLC , 741 F.3d

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BMJ

DECEMBER 16, 2021

5) Conducting ethical LQR; researchers need to consider a number of ethical issues, discussed the article, as these are particularly important due to immersive and prolonged approach in LQR. It can help us understand the process of implementing new practices in primary care in the context of clinical trials and in routine clinical care.

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Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It is, by design, built into the ways we educate, train, and support our clinical leadership. The medical director provides support and leadership for the clinical team to deliver the highest level of patient care while managing program sustainability and growth. Enter the associate medical director.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In this article a group of family practitioners from around the world, members of the World Organisation of Family Medicine’s (WONCA) Working Party for Mental Health, share insights into how doctors and other health professionals can look after ourselves and each other during this time.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JULY 28, 2020

Women are less likely to become full professors or achieve leadership positions at academic medical institutions, and they receive significantly less compensation on average (even after accounting for clinical and research productivity). The challenges of being a woman in medicine resonate with my own and many others’ experiences.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreciate it. As a primary care doctor who has worked in a free clinic in the past, I very much sympathized with this patient.

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The Direct Doctors Difference

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A recent article featured on the medical blog, www.Kevinmd.com , highlights some super important reasons as to why you might consider seeing a doctor who is not affiliated with a hospital or large system. As a small, direct primary care practice here at Direct Doctors, we wholeheartedly agree! His solution?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Sonali Advani and Lona Mody talk about their recent JAGS article highlighting three recent articles that every clinician caring for older adults should be aware of in the treatment of infectious diseases (hint: I’ve never finished a course of antibiotics, and maybe your patients don’t need that full course either). This is Eric Widera.

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