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Family Practice News - August 2012

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:47:40 -0400

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- Family Practice News - August 2012
- Contents
- HIV Treatment as Prevention
- Predict a Woman's Cervical Cancer Risk
- The Need for PSA Screening
- Disordered Sleep in Mid-to Late Life
- Reduce the Risk of Fracture Significantly
- Make adult immunizatin a higher priority
- ACO Insider
- The Office
- EHR Report

Family Practice News - July 1, 2012

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:12:36 -0400

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- Family Practice News - July 1, 2012
- Table of Contents
- Safety plan for long-acting opioids
- A rise in ADHD diagnoses
- Is obesity a chronic disease on par with diabetes
- Patients were smoke free a year
- Probably don't need inhaled corticosteroids daily
- Need one or two doses of flu vaccine
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians
- Patients who have chronic kidney disease
- ACO Insider

Family Practice News - June 15, 2012

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:57:12 -0400

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- Family Practice News - June 15, 2012
- Contents
- Major bleeding events in patients taking low-dose aspirin
- Low risk of progression to diverticulitis
- Definitive link between vitamin D levels
- Treatments for irritable bowel syndrome
- Carefully evaluated for signs and symptoms of concussion
- Reduction in incident knee osteoarthritis
- Regaining glucose control as early as possible
- Prevent unecessary test ordering and treatment
- Released ratings on primary care practices

Family Practice News - June 1, 2012

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:00:19 -0400

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- Family Practice News - June 1, 2012
- Contents
- 21%25 reduction in colorectal cancer incidence
- Prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer’s by 2025
- Annual low-dose CT lung cancer screening
- IOM’s recommendations on vitamin D intake
- Screening colonoscopy every 10 years
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians
- Arrival of more affordable generic clopidogrel
- side effects of four widely used cancer drugs
- ACO Insider

Family Practice News - May 15, 2012

Wed, 30 May 2012 08:02:11 -0400

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- Family Practice News - May 15, 2012
- Patients keep using PPIs
- Physicians who treat Medicaid patients a pay raise
- Spirituality in patient-physician relationships
- Make opiate prescribing safer and more efficien
- Don't count out warfarin quite yet
- Metformin alone wasn’t enough
- Curbing the obesity epidemic
- May not cover the true cost of implementing an EHR
- EHR Report
- The Office

Family Practice News - May 1, 2012

Wed, 09 May 2012 16:43:56 -0400

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- Family Practice News - May 1, 2012
- Table of Contents
- Look Beyond Glycemic Control
- Measles Cases in 2011 Hit the Highest Level
- Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
- Treating Subclinical Hypothyroidism With Levothyroxine
- Controversial Diagnosis of Deploymentrelated Lung Diseases
- Drospirenone-Containing Oral Contraceptives
- Not a Corresponding Decrease in Sunburns
- Medicare’s New Physician Compare Website
- The Office

Family Practice News - April 15, 2012

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:08:14 -0400

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- Family Practice News - April 15, 2012
- Contents
- Unnecessary procedures that should be dropped
- Less likely to comply with colorectal cancer screening
- Requirement that doctors use the ICD-10
- Slashed LDL levels up to 72%25
- Gout has increased by 40%25
- A warming climate may increase Dengue’s presence
- Treat rosacea based on presenting signs
- First-line treatment of dysthymic disorder
- 15%25-25%25 ‘Overdiagnosis’ of breast cancer
- EHR Report

Family Practice News - April 1, 2012

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:29:35 -0400

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- Family Practice News - April 1, 2012
- What's News
- Aspirin Daily Had a 15%25 Reduced Risk of Death
- Routine Lung Cancer Screening in High-Risk Individuals
- Expanding Nonprescription Access to Some Medications Could Be Beneficial
- Can Extend the Interval Between Pap
- Women With Lyme Disease Display More Clinical Symptoms Than Do Men
- Naltrexone Reduced Fibromyalgia Pain
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians
- Support Ldl Targets Below 70 mg/dL
- The Office: Best Ways to Deal With Deadbeats

Family Practice News - March 15, 2012

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:46:51 -0400

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- Family Practice News - March 15, 2012
- What's News
- First guidelines to specifically address pediatric acne
- Cognitive impairment from their arterial stenosis
- The late start to this year’s flu season
- 13-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine in adults
- Clinically meaningful clues to phenotyping patients with COPD
- Low levels of parathyroid hormone
- Wellness visit out of the office and into the health club
- EHR Report: A quiet revolution occurring in health care technology
- Map out strategies for reining-in health care spending

Family Practice News - March 1, 2012

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:12:03 -0400

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- Family Practice News - March 1, 2012
- Contents
- Pertussis vaccine should be given to adults aged 65 years
- Hallucinogens known as ‘bath salts’
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians
- Need just three topical corticosteroids
- Gout cases are mismanaged.
- Drugs, Pregnancy, and Lactation
- Find research-driven online tools to help
- Consider underlying bronchiectasis
- The Office

Family Practice News - February 15, 2012

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:15:01 -0500

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- Family Practice News - February 15, 2012
- What's News
- Cancer screening rates were below national targets
- Lumbar spinal stenosis display a distinctive gait
- Cognitive engagement may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease
- Refrain from using the terms ‘fat,’ ‘extremely obese’
- Identified recent ischemic stroke patients at high risk
- Most did not save the government money
- EHR Report: Make a real difference in EHR implementation
- Blognosis: Latest example of the trauma of politics in medicine

Family Practice News - February 2012

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:51:02 -0500

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- Family Practice News - February 2012
- What's News
- Would be referred to a specialist
- Dabigatran appeared to raise the risk of myocardial infarction
- Slow or even halt the expected rise in new cases
- No less likely to die of prostate cancer
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians: Urinary tract infections
- New treatment option is generating optimism
- Expert Commentary: Management of atopic eczema in children
- Implementing Health Reform: Medicaid’s initial core set of quality measures
- The Office: Your office on the Web

Family Practice News - January 2012

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:02:17 -0500

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- Family Practice News - January 2012
- What's News
- Even though guidelines advise against it
- Most at risk of abusing opioid medications?
- Benefits of drospirenone-containing oral contraceptives outweigh their risks
- Texting program for new moms continues to grow
- Were nearly equal
- Reduce the odds of developing antibiotic-associated diarrhea by 60%25
- Lyme disease can create confusion for clinicians
- First-line therapy for ‘insomnia’
- The Office: Holiday bonuses

Family Practice News - December 2011

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:28:41 -0500

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- Family Practice News - December 2011
- What's News
- Hikes up the risk of cardiovascular mortality later
- Co-payment-free screening and counseling for obesity
- Curb rotavirus infections in adults
- Will develop one or more BCCs within 5 years
- Low vitamin C intake may worsen heart failure
- More than doubled the risk of fracture
- Obese patients coached solely over the phone and Internet
- The cost of treating diabetes patients
- EHR Report
- Stop extending credit!

Family Practice News - November 15, 2011

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:59:49 -0500

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- Family Practice News - November 15, 2011
- Table of Contents
- Already convicted for its role in peptic ulcers, H. pylori now may be a suspect in the development of diabetes.
- Warfarin’s therapeutic reign continues to crumble with the FDA’s approval of rival anticoagulant rivaroxaban.
- Commentary: Is the feds’ final rule on ACOs a game-changer for primary care physicians?
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians: Review the latest on diagnosis and management of community acquired pneumonia in infants and children.
- Learn to recognize the myths that can get in the way of identifying abuse of an infant or child.
- A three-item measure can accurately identify patients who are at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes in the subsequent 5 years.
- Some primary care physicians in the Midwest have decided to tackle health reform questions on their own.
- Could direct reimbursement for coordination of care and such services as telephone consultations be around the corner?

Family Practice News - November 1, 2011

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:43:59 -0500

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- Family Practice News - November 1, 2011
- Contents
- Are most protected from SIDS
- Antimicrobial agents are in such short supply
- Should be given the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine
- Influenza vaccines are not very effective at preventing the flu
- Guideline for the treatment of essential tremor
- Supplementation with folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12 was a bust
- EHR Report

Family Practice News - October 15, 2011

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:55:48 -0400

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- Family Practice News - October 15, 2011
- Contents
- Morality Risk Doubled During the Year After Hip Fracture
- RIsk Factor for Major Osteoporotic Fractures
- Effective as an Aid to Smoking Cessation
- Did Not Follow Recommended Schedules for Vaccinating
- As Great a Cause of Death as is Maternal Morality
- Actinic Keratoses are the Most Common Lesions with Premalignant Potential
- Evidence on the Best Ways to Treat Bipolar Depression is Limited
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians
- May Miss Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Family Practice News - October 1, 2011

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:58:09 -0400

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- Family Practice News - October 1, 2011
- Contents
- MedPAC Pitches a Primary Care Pay Freeze
- OTC Contraceptives and Samesex Marriage
- Physicians Should Lead by Example
- Florida Physicians Can Still Ask About Guns
- Evaluating a Child With Syncope
- Plaque Around the Eyelids
- New Exercise Guidelines for Type 2 Diabetes Patients
- Wider Use of Concussion Screening Tests
- Littered With Failed Anti-Obesity Drugs
- EHR Report

Family Practice News - September 15, 2011

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:44:44 -0400

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- Family Practice News - October 2011
- Weight Loss Programs for Seniors
- World Trade Center Rescuers
- The Final Federal E-Prescribing Regulations
- Assessing Patients Who Present With Back and Neck Pain
- Predict Conversion From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease
- Sharp Increase in Melanoma in Young Women
- Adolescents Who Spend Time Daily on Social Networking Sites
- Doesn’t Slow Accelerated Coronary Atherosclerosis.
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians

Family Practice News - September 1, 2011

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:30:55 -0400

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- Family Practice News - September 1, 2011
- Contents
- Death, Taxes, and Malpractice Claims?
- An Incentive Program for Large Physician Groups
- Pap Tests Are Still Overused
- Flu Vaccination During Pregnancy
- Daily Azithromycin Prevented Acute COPD Exacerbations
- A Take-Home Test for Chlamydia
- Pairing Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen Cut Knee Pain but Boosted Bleeding
- Gout Is Skyrocketing
- Patients Buzzing About Probiotics
- Proton Pump Inhibitor Use
- MRSA Abscess Cases
- Tricyclics May Be Safer Than SSRIs for Treating Depression in Seniors
- EHR Report

Family Practice News - August 2011

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:28:43 -0400

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- Family Practice News - August 2011
- Contents
- Copayment-free prevention
- Promising HIV research, challenging clinical application?
- Debt deal delivers doubt for docs
- Blood test for Alzheimer’s?
- Frequently without impairment
- Monthly ratings improved depression
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians

Family Practice News - July 2011

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:56:53 -0400

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- Family Practice News - July 2011
- What's News
- A House divided
- The Danger of diastolic dysfunction
- Measuring remission
- Concussion's repercussions
- Simplifying sunscreen
- Diabetes double screen
- EHR report

Family Practice News - June 15, 2011

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:51:51 -0400

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- Family Practice News - June 15, 2011
- What's News
- More Really is Better
- Remote HCV Expertise, Local Primary Care
- Shot of Relief
- Pill’s Worth of Cancer Prevention?
- It Doesn’t Give Them Wings
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians

Family Practice News - June 1, 2011

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:44:44 -0400

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- Family Practice News - June 1, 2011
- What's News
- Calming COPD
- Poolside Prevention
- Analgesic Gamble
- R U VAXN8ED?
- Long-Distance Dermal Link
- The Not-To-Do List
- EHR Report

Family Practice News - May 15, 2011

Wed, 25 May 2011 10:06:36 -0400

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- Family Practice News - May 15, 2011
- What's News
- Walking Away From Polyps
- Medical Advance? Check the Price Tag
- Within Primary Care’s Purview
- Hyper About Stroke
- Gout For Your Heart
- Firsthand Impact of Secondhand Smoke
- Bite Without Infective Bark
- Model of Uncertainty

Family Practice News - May 1, 2011

Fri, 06 May 2011 17:35:17 -0400

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- Family Practice News - May 1, 2011
- Contents
- Opioid license
- Bacteria battle UTIs
- Taming triglycerides
- Adjuvant option
- Filling the AK pipeline
- It takes a community
- Implementing Health Reform
- EHR Report

Family Practice News - April 15, 2011

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:36:39 -0400

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- Family Practice News - April 15, 2011
- Contents
- Is the Payoff Worth the Effort?
- Preventitive Parity
- LDL Liquidator
- Expert Commentary
- Follow Their Nose
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians
- Blognosis

Family Practice News - April 1, 2011

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:55:42 -0400

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- Family Practice News - April 1, 2011
- Contents
- Linger Longer Looking Rearward
- Prodrome Predictor?
- Commentary
- YMCA Referrals Wanted
- No Stroke History? Know the Red Flags
- Taking Action Against Eczema

Family Practice News - March 15, 2011

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:37:03 -0400

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- Family Practice News - March 15, 2011
- Contents
- Relieving the Pressure
- Pictures Without Purpose
- Commentary
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians
- Less-Upsetting Solution
- Is Pain Relief a Click Away?
- Positive Impact on Triple-Negative Risk
- Pondering the SGR Puzzle

Family Practice News - March 1, 2011

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:13:51 -0500

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- Family Practice News - March 1, 2011
- Contents
- Reduced the Risk of Stroke and Systemic Embolism by More than Half
- Eating High Levels of Dietary Fiber may Reduce Mortality Rates
- More and More Stroke Survivors are Forced to Cut Back
- Reduce the Incidence of Postherpetic Neuralgia
- Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Boys and Men Prevents Infection
- Prevented the Development of Aggressive Advanced Nodular Melanoma
- Expert Commentary
- Implementing Health Reform

Family Practice News - February 15, 2011

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:03:24 -0500

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- Family Practice News - February 15, 2011
- Contents
- Parental Pandora’s Box
- Rx for Better Diabetes Care
- Immunization Update
- Mammography Controversy Still Simmers
- Short-Circuiting Schizophrenia?
- From Mild to Wild
- Livening up Licensure
- EHR Report

Family Practice News - February 1, 2011

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500

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- Family Practice News - February 1, 2011
- Contents
- Osteoporosis Screening Guidelines Get an Update
- Primary Care Group Visits Cut Readmissions
- Diagnostic Promise for Alzheimer's?
- Intro to PCMH 101
- Open for EHR Business
- And a Biomarker Shall Lead Them
- Access without Action
- Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians
- Tips for Reaching the PCMH Top

Family Practice News - January 2011

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:57:53 -0500

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- Family Practice News - January 2011
- Contents
- Atrial Fibrillation Research Spurs Updates to Treatment Guidelines
- Pain Management Program Cut Narcotics Rx Diversion
- Daily, Long-Term Use of Low-Dose Aspirin Cut the Risk of Death from Several Types of Cancer, According to a Meta-Analysis
- Seniors' Gait Speed Correlated with Expected Years of Life Remaining, with Increased Walking Speed Predicting Longer life Expectancy
- Nearly 9 Out of 10 People with at Least Six Clinical Markers of Chronic Kidney Disease Weren't Even Aware that They had the Condition
- Regular Use of Sunscreen Reduced the Incidence of New Primary Melanomas Up to 10 Years Later
- Approximately 20%25 of Cases of Chronic, Low Back Pain in Younger Adults Seen in Primary Care Settings Might be Caused by Spondyloarthritis
- Opioids were Associated with More Risks than were NSAIDs or Coxibs in Elderly Patients Taking the Drugs for Arthritis Pain
- An Estimated 32 Million Adults in the United States May Have Hyperuricemia, Which Often Precedes Gout
- The Anticoagulants that Would be King
- Implementing Health Reform