Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

DECEMBER 27, 2024

(NEW) TLDR at the bottom* Well-being as an Investment Whether or not you embrace the practice, the new year often comes with resolutions, with many choosing to focus on well-being. This is for good reason: investing in your well-being produces significant returns! The new year offers a clean slate, but so does each and every new morning. The Dual Focus of Well-being When physicians hear “wellness,” it can evoke frustration toward the healthcare system.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The ongoing spread of bird flu in the United States has alarmed expertsnot just because of human cases causing severe illness, but also due to troubling new instances of infections in cats.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients. As Dr. Dhruv Khullar writes, "They [private equity] are hardly the only corporations to learn this lesson.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A new study from Karolinska Institutet maps the cellular and molecular dynamics of human wound healing in exceptional detail. The study was published in Cell Stem Cell.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Childhood is a time of growth, exploration, and, unfortunately, illness. As children’s immune systems develop, they are more susceptible to a range of common illnesses. While many of these can be managed at home, others require professional attention. Knowing when to see family care physicians is essential for ensuring your child's health and preventing complications.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A multinational study led by the LHON Study Group has revealed sustained visual improvements and a favorable safety profile five years following lenadogene nolparvovec gene therapy in patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) caused by the MT-ND4 gene mutation.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 27, 2024

'/> The number of unhoused seniors is expected to triple by 2030. As rents rise, it becomes tougher to find affordable housing that's accessible for those with medical conditions and disabilities.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Scenes from some of the most popular TikToks from the Global South in 2024: a dancing teen from the Philippines; an homage to Mr. Bean, that cute baby pygmy hippo. (Image credit: From left: Nianaguerrero; Khamoo.andthegang; Khaby.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a genetic mutation that slows the growth of melanoma and potentially other cancers by harnessing the power of the immune system. Their findings, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, could lead to new treatments that improve outcomes from existing cancer immunotherapies.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

'/> These stories didn't get huge numbers of views, but readers who found them stayed with them for what qualifies as an eternity on the online clock. Here are our underappreciated favorites.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Starting this spring, the University of Washington will try a new approach to helping students and employees in mental health crises, based on a philosophy that's become increasingly mainstream: Mental health professionals are better equipped than police to respond to some emergencies.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Military personnel who fire certain powerful weapons may put their brains at risk. Two veterans who had repeated exposure to blasts developed the same rare brain malformation.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Tonsillitis is a common reason for visits to the doctor and prescriptions of antibiotics in primary care. To determine whether a patient needs antibiotics, doctors use the so-called Centor Criteria for tonsillitis. The criteria include fever, tender and swollen lymph nodes in the angles of the jaw and inspection of the tonsils.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The FDA has classified its recall of eggs sold under Costco's Kirkland brand as a Class I recall, a designation reserved for instances of the highest potential health risk including death.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Black children are suspected to have experienced child abuse at higher rates than children of other racial and ethnic backgrounds, according to a study published online Dec. 18 in JAMA Network Open.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration is taking aim at a popular category of mushrooms edibles. That comes after a rash of illnesses and even a few suspected deaths earlier this year.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A research team led by Prof. Chen Yan at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has taken a leap forward in cardiovascular health monitoring. They have developed a non-invasive radio frequency (RF)-based system capable of monitoring heart rate variability (HRV) with clinical-grade accuracy over extended periods.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration is prohibiting the use of a red-capped psychedelic mushroom in foods like gummies and edibles. These products have grown in popularity, but they've also been linked to a rash of illnesses in the U.S., including a few deaths.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Personal health is often among the top New Year's resolutions each January. Beyond diet and exercise, Dr. John Presutti, a Mayo Clinic family medicine physician, says the start of a new year is a good calendar reminder to update adult vaccinations.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a new rule to require standardized testing of talc-containing cosmetics for asbestos, a known carcinogen linked to serious illnesses such as lung and ovarian cancers.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

There is a bidirectional association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a review published online Dec. 1 in Frontiers in Immunology.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Children and adolescents with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a range of symptoms, signs, and diagnoses within five years before diagnosis, according to a study published online Dec. 27 in JAMA Network Open.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Reporting of human adenovirus (HAdV) types decreased since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published in the Dec. 19 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

In this season of short days and long winter nights, it's easy to feel out of sorts. Those who suffer from seasonal affective disorder, a form of depression that's closely linked to the circadian rhythms that govern our sleep cycles, know this all too well. But those same rhythms, which are themselves governed by biological clocks, can affect much more than mood and sleep.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Should you cut back on doom scrolling in 2025? Worries about money, gun violence and hate crimes ranked high among many people's lists of worries at the end of 2024, according to a poll that is part of American Psychiatric Association (APA) Healthy Minds Monthly opinion poll series. The survey included 2200 U.S. adults.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Now that the Federal Trade Commission is doubling-down on its rule requiring eye doctors to provide their patients' prescriptions after eye exams, consumers are encountering more options for their purchases than just those in their doctor's office lobby.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Health care spending in the United States reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, according to a study published online Dec. 18 in Health Affairs.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Influenza vaccine is effective for preventing severe influenza illness among children, according to a study published online Dec. 27 in JAMA Network Open.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Tom Contos is an avid runner. When he started experiencing rectal bleeding in March, he thought exercise could be the cause and tried to ignore it. But he became increasingly worried when the bleeding continued for weeks.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) research team has developed a novel stent surface treatment technology using laser patterning. This technology promotes endothelial cell growth while inhibiting smooth muscle cell dedifferentiation in blood vessels.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Disparities exist in firearm and motor vehicle crash (MVC) fatalities among youth in the United States, according to a study published online Dec. 23 in JAMA Pediatrics.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

It's that time of year, when families and friends come together to share their holiday cheer and a few circulating pathogens.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

New Year's resolutions are typically sweeping and grand. But you can often reap the biggest rewards by building off strengths already in place. Helping to make your family safer, stronger and more harmonious in the coming year may not require a complete overhaul, but rather a few strategic tweaks.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As Mark McAfeethe maverick leader of California's largest raw milk dairyworks on getting his Fresno County dairy out of bird flu quarantine, his name has surfaced as a possible advisor for the Food and Drug Administration on shaping raw milk policy in the United States.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has suspended a second chemist and stopped water testing at the state laboratory amid a state investigation into manipulated data.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Most families choose to exclude food allergens from their households, and those that do report more food allergy (FA)-related concerns, according to a research letter published online Dec. 27 in JAMA Network Open.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The allogeneic bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapy Ryoncil (remestemcel-L-rknd) has been approved for treatment for steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease (SR-aGVHD) in pediatric patients aged 2 months or older, according to a press release from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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