Opinion
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care: World Health Organization’s Updated Influenza Guidelines for 2024
It would be helpful to have a [vaccination] strategy in place to prevent infection in populations rather than focusing just on exposed individuals...
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Beers Criteria Update for Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults
While these guidelines consider the dangers of a certain medication at the population level, sometimes the benefits do outweigh the risks at the...
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Guidance for Practicing Primary Care: Updated Clinical Guidelines Regarding Dry Eye Syndrome
We must educate ourselves on this disease and appropriate treatment depending on classification.
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Updated Clinical Guidelines for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris
Acne can be as life-altering to the patient as other chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
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Deciphering the usefulness of probiotics
We need to arm ourselves with the limited evidence about the use of probiotics.
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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.
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Addressing obesity bias in health care
No one should feel stigmatized when they come for medical help.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Is the American Venous Forum consensus statement on lymphedema helpful?
Patients receiving treatments rarely become symptom free.
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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...
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2022 GOLD Report: Tips for diagnosing and evaluating COPD
The disease is now described as involving chronic limitation in airflow that results from a combination of small airway disease and parenchymal...
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New guidelines on MRI use in patients with MS explained
Family physicians are often the ones who make the initial diagnosis of MS.