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Trump’s deadline on ‘dreamers’ reverberates through health industries

Karla Ornelas said she has “always had the idea of being a doctor, I've never seen myself doing anything else.” The third-year pre-medical student at the University of California-Davis said she plans to become a family medicine physician and work in California’s Central Valley, where there is a great need for doctors and especially bilingual doctors.

18 Sep 2017

Reducing mental health disparities through online therapy

For many years, I was a psychologist at a very large US university mental health center and we constantly had more people seeking help than we could possibly accommodate. That is a ubiquitous problem across lots of sectors, including community mental health and private practice in any rural area.

18 Sep 2017

New ‘Neurology Atlas’ reveals treatment gap and disparities in distribution of resources

In the run-up to the World Congress of Neurology in Kyoto the new "Neurology Atlas" was published today. Even though there has been progress in the availability of neurological care worldwide and great improvement is being made in diagnostic and therapeutic tools, appalling disparities in the availability of treatment do persist.

18 Sep 2017

Know your body and stay informed for prevention of gynecologic cancers

Gynecologic cancers affect any area of the female reproductive organs (uterus, cervix, ovaries, vulva). For 2017, the American Cancer Society estimates more than 100,000 new cases of gynecologic cancer and more than 31,000 deaths. Luckily these organs are either visible or can give early symptoms of pre-cancer and cancer.

15 Sep 2017

Child with abdominal pain more likely to receive CT scan in general ED, study finds

A child with non-traumatic abdominal pain, a common symptom of appendicitis, is more likely to receive a computed tomography (CT) scan in a general emergency department (ED) than if he or she visited a pediatric emergency department, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

15 Sep 2017

Funding cuts damaging young people's access to mental health services, say researchers

Funding cuts and austerity measures are damaging young people's access to mental health services, with potentially long-term consequences for their mental wellbeing, say researchers at the University of Cambridge.

15 Sep 2017

Prevention experts propose easing advice on number of cervical cancer screenings

Don't get two when one will do. Instead of getting both a Pap test and an HPV test to screen for cervical cancer, many women should get just one or the other at regular intervals, according to a draft recommendation published this week by a panel of prevention experts.

15 Sep 2017

Research finds link between caregiver’s gender, relationship and severity of child abuse injuries

Efforts to prevent child abuse by people who care for children should extend to additional categories of caregivers since injuries that children suffer at the hands of their parent's male partner, babysitter or daycare worker are likely to be more severe, according to research presented during the 2017 American Academy of Pediatrics national conference.

15 Sep 2017

EHR-based prompt in primary care increases HCV screening rates among baby boomers

In a recent study, screening rates for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among baby boomers increased fivefold in the year following implementation of an electronic health record (EHR)-based prompt for primary care physicians.

14 Sep 2017

Tackling misdiagnosis of asthma in primary care

There are three kinds of problem – though we do not have any reliable quantitative data to know how common they are. Firstly, there is sometimes a delay in making an asthma diagnosis in people who have asthma – this is less common than in the past, but it still happens.

13 Sep 2017

PCORI Board awards $18 million for two new studies on sickle cell disease

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors today approved about $18 million to fund two studies comparing different ways to manage the transition of people with sickle cell disease from pediatric to adult care.

13 Sep 2017

Primary care practices use four risk stratification methods to identify patients

Risk stratified care management--assigning a patient to a risk category on which care is based--is increasingly viewed as a way to improve care and reduce costs.

12 Sep 2017

Primary care physicians spend more than one-half of their workday in EHR

Primary care physicians spend more than one-half of their workday interacting with the electronic health record during and after clinic hours.

12 Sep 2017

Physicians more likely to support smoking cessation in heart disease patients than people with cancer

Although a cancer diagnosis can motivate people to try to quit smoking, a study of British general practitioners finds that physicians are more likely to support smoking cessation in primary care patients with coronary heart disease than those with cancer, and patients with cancer are less likely to stop smoking.

12 Sep 2017

Primary Care News and Research

Latest Primary Care News and Research

Trump’s deadline on ‘dreamers’ reverberates through health industries

Reducing mental health disparities through online therapy

New ‘Neurology Atlas’ reveals treatment gap and disparities in distribution of resources

Know your body and stay informed for prevention of gynecologic cancers

Child with abdominal pain more likely to receive CT scan in general ED, study finds

Funding cuts damaging young people's access to mental health services, say researchers

Prevention experts propose easing advice on number of cervical cancer screenings

Research finds link between caregiver’s gender, relationship and severity of child abuse injuries

EHR-based prompt in primary care increases HCV screening rates among baby boomers

Tackling misdiagnosis of asthma in primary care

PCORI Board awards $18 million for two new studies on sickle cell disease

Primary care practices use four risk stratification methods to identify patients

Primary care physicians spend more than one-half of their workday in EHR

Physicians more likely to support smoking cessation in heart disease patients than people with cancer

'Metabolically healthy obese' have increased risk of cardiovascular disease events, study shows

Self-help preventive cognitive therapy found to be effective in reducing recurrent depression

Follow-up letters, FIT tests can help improve colon cancer screening completion

New set of research priorities identified to support tobacco control

Comprehensive analysis reveals cumulative burden of chronic disease in childhood cancer survivors

Shedding new light on hospice care: No need to wait for the ‘brink of death’

Innovating for impact: Jordi Labs on aligning methodologies with FDA expectation

Exploring the role of confocal-based high-content imaging in advancing core facilities

Transforming Cardiovascular Care: Insights from Mina Makar at AstraZeneca

Primary Care News and Research

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Innovating for impact: Jordi Labs on aligning methodologies with FDA expectation

Exploring the role of confocal-based high-content imaging in advancing core facilities

Transforming Cardiovascular Care: Insights from Mina Makar at AstraZeneca

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