Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Can vitamin and mineral supplementation prevent cancer or cardiovascular disease?
Listen to your patients about vitamin and mineral supplements, answer their questions, and tell them the facts.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Addressing obesity bias in health care
No one should feel stigmatized when they come for medical help.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Prostate cancer screening guidelines: To PSA or not to PSA
Applying guidelines that take whole populations into consideration often doesn’t translate well to single patients.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
How the new depression screening guidelines in adults do little to address our mental health care crisis
It is good that screening is now recommended, but we need to do more to tear down the stigma attached to mental illness.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Thoughts on the CDC update on opioid prescribing guidelines
While the guidelines do a great job recommending how to prescribe opioids, they do not go into any depth discussing other treatment options.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Ozempic: The latest weight loss craze and how over-prescribing is harming patients
“Most of us have seen our patients with diabetes having difficulty getting a prescription for Ozempic filled,” says family physician.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Which recommendations on screening, diagnosing, and treating eating disorders are most helpful?
Recently, it has become more widely accepted that eating disorders may be found across people of a variety of socioeconomic statuses.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Is the American Venous Forum consensus statement on lymphedema helpful?
Patients receiving treatments rarely become symptom free.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
How to have a safer and more joyful holiday season
Unfortunately, the risks associated with gathering are not over.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease guidelines 2022: Management and treatment
According to the GOLD report, initial management of COPD should aim at reducing exposure to risk factors such as smoking or other chemical...
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Preparing for back to school amid monkeypox outbreak and ever-changing COVID landscape
The best defense that we currently have against COVID is the vaccine.