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Although many health systems have turned to resilience training as a solution to physician burnout, quality/safety researcher Alan Card, PhD, MPH, argues that such training...

"Our medical system is structured to individually and systemically favor white physicians and patients in ways that white people are trained to ignore," states family...

Among more than 600,000 primary care patients, half live with some degree of social challenge, which has a negative effect on the quality of care...

In the transition from hospital to home, patients and caregivers seek clear accountability, continuity, and caring attitudes across the care continuum. One-hundred and thirty-eight patients...

Research has shown that frequent users of health care services tend to have higher levels of psychological distress. A new study finds that case management...

In July 2015, all children under six years of age gained free access to daytime and out-of-hours general practice services in the Republic of Ireland,...

Co-management of patients by more than one primary care clinician is among new models of care designed to meet the demand for high quality patient...

Credit: Nadia Whitehead, UA College of Medicine - Tucson More than 50 million people in the United States suffer from pain in the absence of...

Community health workers in primary care provide clinical services, community resource connections, and health education and coaching. As trained individuals with limited or no formal...

Hemorrhagic fever viruses, so named for their ability to induce massive, and at times fatal, internal bleeding, captured the world's attention during the Ebola outbreak...

The Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance has enabled a large number of research teams to conduct meaningful scholarship with a fraction of...

Credit: Christelle Snow/UCLA UCLA biologists report they have transferred a memory from one marine snail to another, creating an artificial memory, by injecting RNA from...

Credit: Kevin Walsh A variant of the APOE gene may be linked to worse psychiatric symptoms in people who have had a traumatic brain injury,...

Bacteria and other microorganisms display structures from sugar molecules on their surfaces. These sugar structures play an important role for immune defense. "They enable the...

Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are exploring how small changes in the nasal...