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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)Adults with limited English skills receive far less health care than do those proficient in English, according to a new study in Health Affairs. Jessica Himmelstein, MD, a Harvard research fellow and primary care...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)Habitual coffee drinking was not associated with a heightened risk of cardiac arrhythmias in a study of more than 300,000 people. In fact, an adjusted analysis found that "each additional cup of coffee intake was...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lyme disease is the fastest growing vector-borne disease, affecting approximately 300,000 Americans every year. It is caused by the spirochete, Borrelia...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)Only 1 child from a cohort of 45 children hospitalized with multisystem inflammatory syndrome following COVID-19 infection had persistent mild cardiac dysfunction after 9 months, according to data from patients younger...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)Bicycle riding may help people with diabetes live longer, new research suggests. Among more than 7,000 adults with diabetes in 10 Western European countries followed for about 15 years, those who cycled regularly were...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)CLINICIANS IN OBSTETRIC UNITS place nearly twice as many wrong-patient orders as their medical-surgical counterparts, based on a retrospective look at more than 1.3 million orders. These findings suggest that obstetric...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)The heterogeneous clinical course of atopic dermatitis (AD) and its differing signs, symptoms, burden, and response to treatment can pose a quandary for physicians. This is behind a new classification framework called...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)Black women undergoing hysterectomies were significantly more likely to be treated by low-volume surgeons than high-volume surgeons, and to experience perioperative complications as a result, based on data from more than...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION has approved the first high-frequency spinal cord stimulation (SCS) therapy for treating painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN). The approval is specific for the treatment of chronic pain...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)Anew law that allows medical aid in dying (MAID) as an option for terminally ill, mentally capable adults went into effect last month in New Mexico. New Mexico is the 10th state (plus one jurisdiction) to have such a...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)AN INFLUENTIAL, INDEPENDENT panel unanimously voted that aducanumab (Aduhelm) offers no benefit for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), adding to growing opposition from medical experts to the Food and Drug...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)OVERALL CANCER MORTALITY IN FEMALES continues to decrease in the United States, but "previous declining trends in death rates slowed" for breast cancer in recent years, according to an annual report by several national...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)Dancing helps slow the progression of motor and nonmotor symptoms and improves quality of life for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), new research shows. Over 3 years, weekly participation in dance training...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)DECLINING TRENDS IN MELANOMA death rates accelerated from 2014 to 2018 in the United States, even as incidence rates increased for both males and females, according to an annual report by several national organizations....
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)INDIVIDUALS OF SOUTH ASIAN ancestry face twice the risk of heart disease, compared with individuals of European descent, yet existing risk calculators fail to account for this disparity, according to the results of a new...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)HIV increases the risk for severe COVID-19 by 6% and the risk of dying of COVID-19 in the hospital by 30%, according to a report from the World Health Organization on COVID-19 outcomes among people living with HIV The...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)Family medicine has evolved in many ways since its inception in 1969, especially in terms of the people who are practicing it, but it still needs more diversity to represent the faces of patients. The specialty has...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)Meditation, yoga, breathing exercises, and other mindfulness activities can help children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (J Atten Disord. 2020 Jul 29;1087054720945023), but it's not just the kids who...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 8)Using low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) to screen for aortic valve calcification during a lung cancer screening could identify those at risk for aortic stenosis, says new research published in Annals of Internal...