Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: Multiple chronic conditions (MCC) the most common condition seen in practice are present in 33% of adults and 80% of individuals age > 65. User testing of MCC eCareplan apps provided lessons learned across areas specific to patient-centeredness, effectiveness, fidelity, shareability, feasibility, scalability, and performance.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Their recent study, which was presented online in Gynecological Cancer, assessed the readability of gynecologic cancer clinical trial descriptions on National Cancer Institute Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center (NCI-CCC) websites. gov or required additional inquiries to access information.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 19, 2025

Determining patients’ prognosis Due to individual variations in genetics and lifestyle choices, each person ages at a different rate. However, this visual assessment can be impaired by individual biases, thereby impacting objective care decisions. This can be a cause for discomfort and limited access to crucial information.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

who 1) were aged 18 or older, 2) spoke either English or Spanish as their primary language, and 3) had an experience with social care in a clinical setting within the last 12 months. Study Design/Setting/Population We recruited patients from across the U.S

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

In fact, cough accounts for one in five reasons we seek assistance from a healthcare provider. But one’s cough can provide insights for self-monitoring, and digital health advances have started to facilitate the cough-tracking process. Public health authorities could use this information to take adequate measures.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

Bill Easing Volunteer Rules for Retired Physicians Awaits Governor’s Signature What’s in the Bill: HB 346 streamlines volunteer opportunities for retired physicians at free health clinics is headed to the Governor for final approval. Key features of the bill include a 1.3%

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

However, for individuals who do not qualify for federal Medicaid funding—such as most undocumented immigrants—the federal government does not provide matching funds, even when those individuals meet income eligibility requirements. The asset limit for a household would be $2,000 for an individual and $3,000 per couple.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

An expert panel unveiled a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia patient care. An expert panel has created a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid healthcare professionals in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia care for patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Results/Findings Information management is central to health care delivery, but often not valued or actively supported.

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FDA Law

MARCH 7, 2024

Clissold — The trio of CDER, CBER, and CDRH released a new draft guidance titled “ Use of Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials ” that revises the 2006 guidance “Establishment and Operation of Clinical Trial Data Monitoring Committees” and, when final, will replace the 2006 guidance.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Adults with complex needs require health and social services from a variety of providers, which can lead to frequent use of services. Setting: Two health and social services organizations and 5 primary care clinics in Quebec, Canada. Case B: 12 operational committee meetings; 8 clinical support meetings; 14 people trained.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Adding genetic testing to clinical familial hypercholesterolemia screening improves risk assessment, prognosis and helps to guide targeted therapy. These individuals have total cholesterol counts exceeding 240 mg/dL, which increases their risk of heart disease.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 4, 2023

South Australian aged care providers can now access an individualized quality and safety monitoring report to measure their performance and compare results with other facilities around the nation.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Ultrasound-guided catheter insertion and nonsilicone catheters are associated with a lower risk for complications with peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs), according to results from a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

Minnesota’s Health Care Homes (HCH) certification program is transforming primary care by recognizing clinics that prioritize patient-centered, team-based care. This free and voluntary program offers significant benefits to clinics, health care professionals and patients across the state. What is a Health Care Home?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

For clinicians treating patients with HS, the findings may inform more tailored patient engagement. The researchers emphasized the forum’s role as a vibrant peer-support network but noted their findings also highlight areas where clinical communication may be falling short.

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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. “I

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Traditional clinical health datasets often fail to represent the diversity and breadth of real-world disease, influencing research and AI tools developed on those datasets. Study Design and Analysis: We employed Google Search ads to gather dermatology images from the public, with informed consent, between March and November 2023.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Karst — Listing patent information in the Orange Book is a matter of judgment, but that judgment call is about to get a bit more scrutiny. Thus, “FTC intends to use its full legal authority” to take action “against companies and individuals that improperly list patents in the Orange Book that do not meet the statutory listing criteria.”

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — As an end of the year gift, FDA finalized its guidance document, Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Acquisition in Clinical Investigations , in late December. The guidance addresses the use of DHTs in clinical investigations of drugs, biologics, and medical devices.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A proportion of these ADEs can be explained by a difference in enzyme activity between individuals. Intra-individual variation in genetic composition is one of the key contributing factors determining enzyme activity. Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A Collaborative Approach Between Health Care Providers and Community Partners Food insecurity affects thousands of Minnesotans, often contributing to chronic health conditions and overall poor health outcomes. Community Partnerships: Mayo Clinic collaborates with local food banks to offer mobile food distributions.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Nwamaka Eneanya and Jennifer Tsai to discuss the limitations and harms of race-based medicine in clinical practice. Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The pooled cohort equations (used in the ASCVD risk calculator) are race-stratified equations that estimate an individual’s ten-year risk of ASCVD. However, using race to guide clinical decisions is now controversial, potentially impacting clinician use of this tool.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

In its best use case, such technology would provide the foundation of person-level digital information systems that can be used to accurately collect and use data in at two critical levels: in real-time to improve individual patient outcomes, and aggregated to monitor the health status of a population, i.e. the big numbers.

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FDA Law

MAY 4, 2023

Cato — On May 2nd, FDA released a new draft guidance with recommendations for decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) for drugs, biologics, and devices. In a DCT, trial-related activities may occur in trial participants’ homes, at local health care providers’ offices, or in local clinical laboratories.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Distributing intake throughout the day has been shown to enhance muscle synthesis, and targeting 90 g/day provides 1.2 The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So, with this chapter, I hope to briefly touch on the basics of market investing and describe why simple diversification and index fund investing are the most effective ways for busy clinical physicians and healthcare providers to invest with the expectation of long-term gains. Most clinical physicians are busy. Do not worry.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

The dehumanization of individuals of color at the margins of society by the healthcare system is not simply a thing of the past, and is certainly a persistent phenomenon. Cindy Gladue, Brian Sinclair, and Joyce Echaquan are three Indigenous individuals who suffered immense harm at the hands of the healthcare system.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

People often see an endocrinologist after being referred by their primary care provider. While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care. You might get referred to an endocrinologist if your condition is complex or difficult to manage.

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FDA Law

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In simple terms from a non-scientist, these gene therapies add functional versions of genes to patients that do not have them, and thus the idea is to have these genes function in the same way as they do in individuals without these disorders.

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LEAD Physician

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. For example, a physician might be dealing with a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Agency’s goal is demonstrated in its definition of patient engagement: “Patient engagement is defined as intentional, meaningful interactions with patients that provide opportunities for mutual learning, and effective collaborations.” .

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 12, 2025

These have provided insights into what the executives think about the future, but might not be known publicly. Progress in this field promises to reorient care around individual patients’ needs by treating patients as equal-level partners. We’ve even collected the 10 most promising trends changing the future of the pharma industry.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Javitt — On September 28, 2022, the FDA issued the long anticipated final Clinical Decision Support Software Guidance (CDS Guidance), which replaces the revised draft guidance document from 2019. Criterion 2 : Non-Device CDS software functions display, analyze or print medical information about a patient or other medical information.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Health insurance covers only very short visits that are limited to 1-2 problems per visit, leaving little time for patients to be able to share all of the relevant information about longstanding symptoms. The healthcare system in the US is not well-designed for the kind of care that is required to get to the bottom of these symptoms.

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FDA Law

JUNE 21, 2021

Sasinowski — On June 17, 2021, FDA gave notice of an upcoming public workshop focused on clinical trial designs for progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). PML is a rare disease that occurs when the JC virus (JCV), generally thought to lie dormant in the adult population, takes advantage of immunocompromised individuals.

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