Getting Patients on Board With Lifestyle Changes
(MedPage Today) -- In this video, Elizabeth Simkus, DNP, FNP-C, of the Rush University Prevention Center in Chicago, offers tips on how healthcare providers can address positive lifestyle changes with patients, and what lies ahead for preventive... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 19, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Reimagining Aging and Later Life
(MedPage Today) -- "The Doctor's Art" is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 19, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Don't Let Medicare Beneficiaries Fall Off the Telehealth Cliff
(MedPage Today) -- The think tank I work with, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), began an extensive effort a year and a half ago to develop evidence-based policy recommendations for the effective use of telehealth beyond the federal COVID-19... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 18, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
FDA Can Make Us Healthier Than 'Healthy'
(MedPage Today) -- There's been a lot of buzz over FDA's move to redefine what can be labeled a "healthy" food. In a proposed rulemaking rolled out on the morning of the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health last month... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 15, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Eating More Unprocessed Foods Tied to Lower Risk of Crohn's Disease
(MedPage Today) -- Eating more unprocessed or minimally processed foods was linked to a lower risk of Crohn's disease, with no association seen for ulcerative colitis, according to data on participants in the European Prospective Investigation... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 14, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Despite Exciting Newcomer Drugs, Uptake of HF Meds Still Meek Across Oceans
(MedPage Today) -- Even with the introduction of newer, better-tolerated medications, the slow and rocky implementation of guideline-directed medical therapies (GDMTs) for heart failure (HF) has remained a global issue, a study found.
Among Americans... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 14, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Has Patient Service Gone to the Dogs?
(MedPage Today) -- Over the weekend, my wife and I realized that our dog Winchester needed an appointment.
If you're a regular reader of this column, you've probably met Winchester before, likely in one of my columns about our annual forays up... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 10, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
'Treat and Street' Is Not the Answer to Overdose Crises in the ED
(MedPage Today) -- Several years ago, I was in the emergency department (ED) with a loved one -- a young woman seeking treatment for opiate withdrawals and a mental health crisis. We had driven 4 hours to this particular hospital because it was... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 10, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Why Does Osteoarthritis Respond So Well to Placebo?
(MedPage Today) -- One of the enduring enigmas in medicine is why patients with osteoarthritis (OA), whose joints are clearly diseased enough to cause substantial pain, nevertheless find relief with sugar pills. Now a meta-analysis from China has... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 10, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
UCSF Residents Avert Strike; Reach Tentative Deal With Children's Hospital Oakland
(MedPage Today) -- Unionized residents and interns reached an agreement with University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland (CHO), averting a strike and tentatively ensuring better pay, housing stipends, relocation... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 7, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Women Doctors More Likely to Be Called By First Name in Patient Portal Messages
(MedPage Today) -- Female physicians were more likely to be called by their first names in electronic medical record (EMR) patient portal messaging, researchers found.
In adjusted analyses, women doctors were more than twice as likely as their... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 5, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
What Drug Laws Are in the Inflation Reduction Act? The Answer Might Surprise You
(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- By now you've likely heard about the new law allowing Medicare to negotiate the price of certain prescription drugs taken by its beneficiaries. But the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) -- the legislation containing... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 4, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Healthcare at the Margins
(MedPage Today) -- "The Doctor's Art" is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 4, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Dementia Diagnosis Linked to Suicide
(MedPage Today) -- Suicide risk was higher in people recently diagnosed with dementia, especially younger patients, a case-control study in England showed.
Compared with people who didn't have dementia, suicides rose in people who received a dementia... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 3, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Be Careful With That Brie; Fentanyl Test Strips Under Fire; Monkeypox Here to Stay?
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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - October 3, 2022 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
