Type 1 diabetes risk linked to intestinal viruses
Credit: Robert Boston Doctors can't predict who will develop Type 1 diabetes, a chronic autoimmune disease in which one's own immune system destroys the cells...
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Medical expenditures rise in most categories except primary care physicians and home health care
In recent years, US medical expenditures have outpaced inflation and are notably higher than those of other developed countries. A new study examines whether increases...
Rural physicians report significant barriers in treating opioid use disorder
More than half of rural counties in the United States lack a physician trained and waivered by the Drug Enforcement Agency to treat opioid use...
Buprenorphine: Being out of treatment increases risk of death nearly 30-fold
Buprenorphine reduces mortality for those with opioid use disorder, but periods off treatment are associated with much higher mortality rates. A study of 713 new...
Doctor cautions against denial of the opioid epidemic
When a family physician moved to a new rural community, she was unprepared for the constant flow of patients seeking prescriptions for opioids. In this...
Who should treat patients with opioid use disorder?
In a Point/Counterpoint, two doctors debate whether or not family physicians should provide medication-assisted treatment to their patients with opioid use disorder. Family physician David...
Ten new awards from the National Science Foundation
Credit: Leonid Moroz Ten new awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $14 million will enable biologists to develop enhanced genomic tools that can...
Chlamydia screening drops after change in cervical cancer screening guideline
A 2012 cervical cancer screening guideline change is associated with reduced testing for cervical cancer and chlamydia and reduced identification of chlamydia cases in young...
Deprescribing in primary care runs counter to medical culture
Although deprescribing (tapering and withdrawing medicines when risks outweigh potential benefits) is essential to best prescribing practices, it runs counter to patient expectations, medical culture,..
Insured patients have limited access to behavioral health care
A health plan's ability to offer access to clinicians in primary and specialty care is crucial to ensuring access to care. New research finds that...
Younger primary care physicians have greater turnover
Between 2000 and 2014, the mobility rate of younger primary care physicians was approximately double that of older physicians. According to a study of rural...
Predictive model accurately diagnoses sinusitis
A new series of clinical decision rules integrating signs, symptoms, and C-reactive protein diagnose acute rhinosinusitis and acute bacterial rhinosinusitis with good accuracy. Researchers developed...
Call for the creation of chief primary care medical officer in hospitals
When patients are admitted to the hospital, their connection to their primary care physician is often disrupted, leading to difficult transitions of care, readmissions, higher...
Lost in translation: To the untrained zebra finch ear, jazzy courtship songs fall flat
Zebra finches brought up without their fathers don't react to the singing of potential suitors in the same way that female birds usually do, hinting...
Physicians’ losses can contribute to burnout
Physicians regularly encounter losses: not only the death of patients but also more ambiguous losses, including changes in professional roles, duties, and identity. A family...
