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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)FROM STROKE SPENDING MORE FREE TIME seated combined with engaging in low physical activity is associated with an increased risk of stroke in adults aged between 40 and 60 years, according to a new analysis. While the...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)Over the 10 years we've been writing this column, we have often found inspiration for topics while traveling especially while flying. This is not just because of the idle time spent in the air, but instead because of the...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)The transition from undergraduate medical education (UME) to graduate medical education (GME) in the United States needs comprehensive reform, says a new report from the Undergraduate Medical Education to Graduate...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)Older adults may have a high degree of suicidal intent yet still have low scores on scales measuring psychiatric symptoms, such as depression, new research suggests. In a cross-sectional cohort study of more than 800...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)For patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), following a Mediterranean diet is more effective in reducing progression of atherosclerosis than following a low-fat diet, according to new data from the CORDIOPREV...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)Case vignette: Laura is a 14-year-old biological girl who presents to your office for a routine well-child visit. She is doing well medically but notes that over the past 3 months she has been having increasing thoughts...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)Family physicians as a whole managed to hold the line on earnings in 2020, even advancing their net worth to some degree, despite the pandemic and a large dose of medical school debt, a Medscape survey shows. In early...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)"I want my child to go back to school," the mother said to me. "I just want you to tell me it will be safe." As the summer break winds down for children across the United States, pediatric COVID-19 cases are rising....
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled a growing demand for nurse practitioners (NPs), while demand for primary care physicians has cooled, according to Merritt Hawkins' annual review of physician and advanced practitioner...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)He achieved this through moving to practicing functional medicine a decade ago. According to Dr. Scherger, functional medicine "shifts the whole approach [to family medicine], recognizing that people's chronic...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)In a large study of community-based stroke survivors in Canada, researchers found those meeting guideline-recommended levels of physical activity had a significantly lower risk for death from any cause, with a greater...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)Postpartum depression, in many respects, has become a household term. Over the last decade, there has been increasing awareness of the importance of screening for postpartum depression, with increased systematic...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)A 63-year-old man undergoes cardiac bypass surgery. He is able to be extubated at 8 hours. The next morning he has a fever to 38.5 [degrees]C. His exam shows no redness at the surgical site, or at his IV sites. His lung...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)Second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) taken by pregnant women are linked to a low rate of adverse effects in their children, new research suggests. Data from a large registry study of almost 2,000 women showed that...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)Among adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes - the leading cause of kidney disease - those who received vitamin D supplements as opposed to placebo for close to 3 years did not have significant differences in kidney...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 51, Issue 9)FROM THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE THERAPEUTIC LEVELS of hepa rin can have widely varying effects on COVID-19 patients depending on the severity of their disease, according to a multiplatform clinical trial that...