Why a doctor saying ‘it’s normal’ can backfire
Doctors may think they’re saying “Don’t panic.” But many patients hear “Don’t bother” instead. A new study from the University of California San Diego Rady School of Management… read more.
Doctors may think they’re saying “Don’t panic.” But many patients hear “Don’t bother” instead. A new study from the University of California San Diego Rady School of Management… read more.
A postpartum care model combining health coaching with self-measured blood pressure (BP) monitoring significantly improved both health care engagement and blood pressure control by 12 months post partum,… read more.
Having high blood pressure is associated with greater intentions to follow doctors’ recommendations to take medication than people without high blood pressure but lesser intentions to make recommended… read more.
A multi-institutional study led by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that telemedicine is becoming increasingly common for problem-based primary care, particularly for children with endocrine… read more.
A randomized controlled trial in Singapore found that, compared with offering clinician sampling alone, offering self-sampling or clinician sampling increased both high-risk HPV detection (3.1% vs 0.3%) and… read more.
Discharge summaries are among the most important documents in healthcare, yet they are frequently late, inconsistent, and incomplete. In this interview, Toong Foo Chan, Chief Pharmacist and Controlled… read more.
Metabolic dysfunction‑associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is a leading chronic liver disease in China, yet primary care capacity remains limited. To address this, the first national Guidelines for Diagnosis… read more.
Social prescribing, in which people are connected with arts and exercise activities and other sources of support, may help adolescents waiting for specialist mental health services by improving… read more.
Close working between community pharmacy and general practice is already a reality in many areas, and the NHS 10-year health plan aims to build on this. In this… read more.
Artificial intelligence is spreading rapidly in health care, with the goal of streamlining critical but onerous clerical tasks such as note-taking and charting so that physicians and nurses… read more.
A new cohort study suggests that when primary care clinicians—rather than specialists—start patients on continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), the benefits are substantial and measurable. Published in JAMA Network… read more.
A new “secret shopper” study published in JAMA has raised concerns about the oversight of online vendors prescribing glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), the popular class of… read more.
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