Mental health disorders the leading cause of disease burden for females
Mental health and substance abuse disorders are the leading cause of disease burden among U.S. females and the fourth-leading cause for males, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Mental... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 9, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
VIDEO: The ins and outs of JAK ihibitors for alopecia
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. – The promise of Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors for alopecia seems to be holding up in the practice of Dr. Natasha Mesinkovska, a dermatologist at the University of California,... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 9, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
LAA occlusion studied for stroke prevention in atrial fib with prior intracerebral hemorrhage
PARIS – Transcatheter left atrial appendage occlusion shows promise in providing a far better stroke prevention strategy than does standard medical management in patients with atrial fibrillation who... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 9, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Adolescent obesity rose slightly, again
Nearly one in five young people in the United States are obese, and proportionally more adolescents have been obese during every time period measured since 1994, according to an analysis published... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Does medical marijuana work for PTSD, other psychiatric indications?
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – There’s a rapidly growing list of states that have approved marijuana for medical use, but that does not mean that there’s also an expanding body of science to support marijuana’s... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Liquid biopsies prove useful alternative to tissue biopsies
CHICAGO – Liquid biopsy, the testing of the blood for circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), identified cancer mutations useful as biomarkers in 85% of all advanced cancer cases in the largest-ever genomic... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
New heart failure interventions face outcomes test
A history of trials where a well-reasoned heart failure intervention did not have the expected results is now coloring the way some clinicians view potential new treatments.
A couple of examples of... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Obesity continues to trend up among women over the past decade
Four in 10 women in the United States are obese, 1 in 10 women has a body mass index above 40 kg/m2, and significantly more women are obese than a decade ago, according to a large study... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Bezlotoxumab beats placebo at preventing recurrent C. difficile infections in high-risk patients
SAN DIEGO – Bezlotoxumab prevented recurrent Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs) among high-risk patients even more effectively than in the overall populations of the placebo-controlled... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 6, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Study spotlights link between mental illness, gun-related suicide
Enacting risk-based gun removal laws and prohibiting guns from people involuntarily detained in short-term psychiatric hospitalization may have a positive impact on gun-related suicide and violent... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 6, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Experts endorse metabolic surgery for diabetes intervention
Metabolic surgery should be recommended for obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, according to an international consensus statement from 48 clinicians and scholars issued after the Second... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 5, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Early HIV testing tempers transmission
Early and aggressive HIV testing may reduce HIV incidence, according to a data analysis of new HIV diagnoses in San Diego.
From 2006 to 2012, an average of 471 new HIV diagnoses were made in San... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 4, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Rise in Neisseria meningitidis–associated urethritis among men
An increase in Neisseria meningitidis (Nm)-associated urethritis among men at two U.S. sexual health clinics warrants raised awareness among clinicians, according to investigators... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 4, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Peter Kramer returns to his role in defending antidepressants in ‘Ordinarily Well’
With his 1993 landmark book, “Listening to Prozac,” psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer became one of the most famous psychiatrists in America – second perhaps only to the fictional Frasier Crane of... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 3, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Ozanimod linked to histologic healing of moderate, severe ulcerative colitis
SAN DIEGO – A new analysis of phase II research finds that the experimental drug ozanimod prompted histologic healing in ulcerative colitis patients at 8 and 32 weeks.
“Ozanimod both induces and... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - June 3, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
