Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

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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. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its recommendations on screening for osteoporosis. In early 2025, the U.S.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Successful implementation required the development of a scalable family history collection tool, the Genetic and Wellness Assessment (GWA) and Breast Health Assessment (BHA) tools; integrated pharmacogenomics programming; educational programming; electronic medical record integration; and robust clinical decision support tools.

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Doctor Rachel

MARCH 14, 2017

I am a family practice doc who sees teens and 20-somethings daily in my practice. I don’t know how it seems to be going in your home or the town or city you live in, but I am seeing an epidemic of anxious, stressed out teens, in my office and in my community. have lost much of our communal connection. And I am not alone.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, patients who move increasingly keep their family physician (FP) because no one in their new community is accepting new patients, creating long distances to seek primary care. Healthcare quality outcomes included rates of colorectal, breast and cervical cancer screening.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As concerns about youth mental health, school shootings, and other forms of violence prompt more school systems to conduct mental health screenings, a UCR-led analysis is urging school officials to proceed with deference to student family, cultural, and community backgrounds.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

JUNE 1, 2025

This is a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and allies alike unite to support each other, strengthen the community, and celebrate themselves and others with parades and joyous events. The stigma creates serious problems and the judgment that those in the community experience every day is exhausting.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Increasing access to primary care clinicians who are better able to screen and treat pediatric mental health conditions can improve mental health and reduce unnecessary ED visits. Clinicians receiving any support from VMAP tended to be female, <40 years old, and practiced in rural communities. vs. 47.4%, p<0.0001).

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 20, 2025

Deeply engage with patients, their families, and communities by treating the whole patient, focusing on healthy habits and better chronic condition management, and addressing social determinants of health through integrated services.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service). Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To explore and measure the outcomes of HTA organizations’ guidelines in family medicine. Setting: Community-based primary health care. Population Studied: Family physicians, general practitioners, and patients. Published literature in English and French was retrieved through searches of seven databases.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 23, 2025

Exercise is fantastic for your general well-being, but did you know it can also help lower high cholesterol screening levels? Read on to learn how much and what kinds of exercise can help control cholesterol screening levels. Walking with coworkers, friends, or family can help you stay motivated.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 2, 2025

Your digestive system doesn’t just process food; it also influences cholesterol screening levels in your bloodstream. Certain families of commensal bacteria express specialized enzymes enabling them to convert cholesterol into an intricately related byproduct called coprostanol that is poorly absorbed through intestinal walls.

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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. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs.

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East Cary Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Insights from East Cary Family Physicians In this blog, we’re diving into one of the most prevalent health conditions worldwide: diabetes. Get regular check-ups and screenings to monitor blood sugar levels, especially if there’s a family history of diabetes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) at an urban academic medical center in the Midwest. Population Studied: Adults (≥18 years) who receive care at an affiliated clinic, screen positive for food insecurity, have a T2D diagnosis, and an A1c level > 7.5%. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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East Cary Family Physicians

JANUARY 30, 2024

As we embark on Glaucoma Awareness Month, East Cary Family Physicians is unwavering in our commitment to highlight the pivotal role of vision health, with a special emphasis on the early detection of glaucoma. Regular vision screenings are essential to catch glaucoma early, allowing for timely intervention and the preservation of vision.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In the United States testing is routinely done for communal water, though responsibility for testing and treatment of private wells falls on homeowners. Despite recommendations for routine screening, this is rarely done. Arsenic cannot be seen, tasted, or smelled.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

primary care is posing a grave threat to the wellbeing of communities nationwide. State Highlights: Montana provides 65% of its medical training in community-based settings, far surpassing the national average of 16%. In 2022, only 24.4% of new physicians entered primary care—or 19.8% Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

Kaiser Permanente’s physician-led, integrated care model focuses on prevention, screening, treatment, and research to drive continuous improvement in care quality standards that have gained national recognition. We are dedicated to the mission of improving the health of our patients and communities. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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BMJ

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

However, screening diabetes and prediabetes management delivery are still a challenge in practice for the entire US population. This finding suggested that the health care providers might pay more attention to a high-risk population in prediabetes management. Did doctors’ advice facilitate people’s practice of lifestyle change?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In the province of Ontario, a well-established cervical screening program is in place within a universal health care system. Despite this program, and the benefits of early detection on patient health outcomes, screening disparities persist with racialized populations remaining under screened. Jamaica, Trinidad) and Asia (e.g.,

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. I’m a family physician by training. And I would remiss not to mention my wife and my family who might love and enjoy time with to travel. Fascinating background.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cervical cancer screening rates among middle to older age Latinas (>45yrs) - roughly 6.5 Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Our Community Advisory Board (CAB) guided this work. million people in the U.S. – lag behind.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Evidence-based screening tests based on current medical guidelines, your age, and risk factors.

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Myriad Genetics

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

November is Family Health History Month, an observance dedicated to sharing crucial health information within families and encouraging individuals to take proactive steps in their healthcare. Understanding your family’s health history, particularly with hereditary conditions like cancer, can be lifesaving.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families. I’ve worked in palliative care for years, and there’s some times where I’m in the family meeting, I’m facilitating the family meeting, and then I’m reporting out to the referring doctors, and I say, what happened?

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Lock To Live provides tools that can help you talk to patients and families about temporarily reducing access to potentially dangerous things like firearms, medicines, sharp objects or other household items. Firearm Life Plan offers peace of mind to older adult firearm owners and families.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service. By appreciating the impact of factors affecting entire communities, we can be better positioned to act upon them. Dr. Nguyen goes on to expand on these forms.

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Myriad Genetics

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It wasn’t until her own diagnosis that she realized that cancer on both sides of her family – maternal and paternal – could have an impact on her lifetime risk of getting breast cancer. I didn’t realize that it was really important to understand what kind of cancers were on both sides of your family. What should you ask?

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Pamela Wible MD

MAY 22, 2025

Dr. Wible personally screens each participant to ensure they’re in the best group for their unique needs. Ready to Join Our Physician Support Community? How do I know which group is right for me? What are the benefits of joining a physician peer support group? Our mission is to help physicians live their dreams in medicine.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What are ways we should screen for falls? If you want to do a deeper dive into some of the articles we discuss, take a look at the following: An awesome JAMA review by Sarah on fall risk assessment and prevention in community-dwelling adults. People don’t ask about it, they don’t screen about it. Alex 04:10 Wow.

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