Smartphone app helps decrease depression symptoms in pregnancy
BETHESDA, MD. – A smartphone application helped decrease depressive symptoms and improve confidence in self care for low-income pregnant women in their third trimester, a pilot study has... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 6, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Checklist captures new predementia diagnosis of mild behavioral impairment
TORONTO – Researchers have described a behavioral syndrome that they say can be a forerunner of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases and released a tool for diagnosing it.
Mild... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 4, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Driving skills already affected with mild cognitive impairment
TORONTO – Patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment made significantly more errors during a complex test of driving skills and showed altered brain activity while performing this test in a... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 3, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
FDA grants fast track status to volixibat
The Food and Drug Administration has granted fast track status to volixibat, an investigational treatment manufactured by Shire.
“The FDA’s fast track is a process designed to facilitate the... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 3, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Psychiatric disorders often impair antiretroviral adherence in perinatally HIV-infected teens
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – Adolescents who were perinatally infected with HIV have a high prevalence of selected psychiatric disorders that impede their adherence to antiretroviral therapy, Claude Ann... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 2, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
CMS announces regions for Primary Care Plus demo
Fourteen regions across the United States have been selected to be a part of the 5-year Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) initiative.
CPC+ is a public-private partnership aimed at improving... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 1, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
VIDEO: Eating more fiber linked to lower odds of flares in Crohn’s disease
Patients with remitted Crohn’s disease who avoided dietary fiber were significantly more likely to flare than were those who fell into the highest quartile of fiber consumption, according to a... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 1, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
VIDEO: Study highlights cardiovascular benefits, lower GI risks of low-dose aspirin
Resuming low-dose aspirin after an initial lower gastrointestinal bleed significantly increased the chances of recurrence but protected against serious cardiovascular events, based on a single-center... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 1, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
VIDEO: Celiac disease most common among Indians from Punjab study found
Americans from the Punjab region of India had the highest prevalence of celiac disease in a national cross-sectional study of duodenal mucosal biopsies according to a study reported in the August... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 1, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Prophylaxis key to preventing medication overuse migraine
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. – The etiology of intractable daily headaches is broad and includes life-threatening diagnoses. But a large proportion of those headaches results from overuse of therapies for... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 31, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
WHO analysis: Cost of new HCV meds unaffordable globally
The cost of new medicines for patients infected with hepatitis C virus vary widely around the globe, especially when adjusted for national wealth, results from an economic analysis led by World... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 30, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Sublingual cyclobenzaprine may be effective, safe for military-related PTSD
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – A sublingual formulation of cyclobenzaprine taken at bedtime was significantly better than placebo at reducing symptoms of military-related posttraumatic stress disorder, and... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 30, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
The EHR Report: The vortex that sucks you in
Recently, a colleague of ours described the office electronic health record as “the vortex that sucks you in.” This statement occurred during a departmental meeting focused on physician burnout. When... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 29, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Law & Medicine: Discovery rule and statute of limitations
Question: In July 2002, a patient in California underwent surgery for a herniated T8-9 disk, but the surgeon instead removed the T6-7 and T7-8 disks. On Sept. 11, 2002, the surgeon discussed... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 29, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
PBC can present asymptomatically in elderly patients
An 83-year-old woman who was admitted to an emergency department for unsteadiness and dizziness was eventually diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), according to a case report by Patrice... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 28, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
