Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: Despite it being the fourth most common cancer in women, many Somali American women do not receive routine screening for cervical cancer. HPV-only testing is effective for cervical cancer screening and recommended by U.S. guidelines.
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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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? Should it?
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. Essentia Health partners with Second Harvest Northland to provide emergency food access.
Common Sense Family Doctor
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Meanwhile, the estimated time needed to provide guideline-recommended preventive care, chronic disease care, and acute care to a nationally representative panel of 2,500 adult patients is an impossible 26.7 Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively.
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 16, 2025
Oncology providers vary widely and diverge from guidelines in their preferred treatments of adults with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and pre-existing cardiomyopathy, according to the results of a nine-country survey demonstrate. “In 32% would routinely order a post-treatment echocardiogram.
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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