Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

Demand for new obesity medications like semaglutide (GLP-1 analogs) is high, but availability is low. So, which patients should get them first? What are the true benefits and side effects? Patients ask me these questions fairly often, so I know it’s important for GPs to know the key facts. I therefore reviewed the main research studies and guidelines and tried to summarize them briefly and clearly in this article. 1.

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University of Utah Family Medicine Residency

APRIL 10, 2024

by Hendrik Stegall, MD Utahns can’t find a doctor. That was the highlight of a recent Salt Lake Tribune article, which suggested that many parts of Utah have fewer than one MD per 1,000 residents.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 11, 2024

[link] Débora and Noah bring back the Clinical Unknown Series! To kick off the first episode, we host Alec and Austin, who discuss a case presented by Laure. Embark on this diagnostic journey with us!

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

By John W.M. Claud — CDER’s Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) issued its 2023 Annual Report last week, and it’s an upbeat assessment of the Office’s policy and outreach efforts. Last year, OPQ saved a more quantitative analysis of its efforts for the other yearly publication it put out, on the State of Pharmaceutical Quality. Again this year, the Annual Report that was released last week did not feature much in the way of specific quality issues.

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Clinical Correlations

APRIL 9, 2024

By Olivia Descorbeth Peer Reviewed As individuals advance in age, they tend to accumulate medical conditions that require a bevy of pharmaceutical treatments to manage. As a result, polypharmacy, generally defined as the use of five.

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Myriad Genetics

APRIL 10, 2024

Dr. Burton Brodsky had been an OB-GYN for years when his neighbor – and one of his wife’s closest friends – came to him with a question. She was wondering if she should be tested for this “BRCA gene.” Dr. Brodsky inquired about her family, and she told him that both sides of her family had an extensive history of ovarian cancer and breast cancer. “I told her she absolutely needed to be tested,” said Dr.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. Is that appropriate, or should it be the opposite? Should GPs actually be treated as the stars of medicine? As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Ambivalence is a tough concept when it comes to decision-making. On the one hand, when people have ambivalence but haven’t explored why they are ambivalent, they are prone to bad, value-incongruent decisions. On the other hand, acknowledging and exploring ambivalence may lead to better, more ethical, and less biased decisions.

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