Dexilant approved to treat heartburn in younger patients
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Dexilant (dexlansoprazole) for gastroesophageal reflux disease patients aged 12-17 years, according to a press release from Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
FDA... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 13, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Experts emphasize scrupulous procedures for duodenoscopes, ERCP
Contaminated duodenoscopes have caused multiple outbreaks of multidrug-resistant infections with sometimes lethal consequences; until these instruments become easier to clean, personnel must strictly... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 13, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Medicaid expansion linked to lower uninsured rates
The overall uninsured rate for nonelderly adults took a significant drop from 18.8% in 2013 to 14.4% in 2014, with rates by age lower and declines generally larger among states that expanded Medicaid... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 13, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Hepatitis disease burden continues to rise
Although the disease burden of most other prevalent communicable diseases has gone down considerably over the last 25 years, viral hepatitis continues to be a challenge for health care professionals... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 13, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Flumazenil effective in refractory hypersomnolence
DENVER – Transdermal or sublingual flumazenil is well worth considering for treatment of carefully selected patients with hypersomnolence refractory to conventional wake-promoting medications, Lynn... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
GERD and sleep disorders often go hand in glove
DENVER – Gastroesophageal reflux disease is fertile soil for medical and psychiatric comorbid conditions, with sleep disorders leading the way, Maurice M. Ohayon, MD, reported at the annual meeting... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
How practice changes us
I have learned a few things in my almost half-century of hurtling through space with all of you on this fragile blue-green rock. My most recent enlightenment is that the universe has a way of... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Retiring Baby Boomers leave fewer workers to pay for Medicare
The influx of aging Baby Boomers into the ranks of the retired will reduce the ratio of workers available to pay for each Medicare part A beneficiary by 40% from 2000 to 2030, according to the 2016... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Don’t underestimate opioid use in HIV-positive adults
Prescription opioid use in HIV-positive individuals is underestimated, based on data from a 12-week study of medical and nonmedical prescription drug use in HIV patients attending a medical center... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
HIV patients with elevated ALT at significant risk of chronic liver disease
Patients with HIV infection should be screened routinely for chronic liver disease if their alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels are elevated, according to a study published in AIDS Care.
“In... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 11, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Focused-ultrasound device approved to treat essential tremor
A device that uses transcranial focused ultrasound to destroy the MRI-identified pathologic area of the thalamus in essential tremor patients became the first of its kind to receive Food and Drug... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 11, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Endobariatrics: Coming to a clinic near you
SAN DIEGO – Device companies are working hard to bring obesity management to the endoscopy suite.
The field is called endobariatrics, and its goal is to fill the gap between surgery and... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 11, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Childhood trauma, cannabis use disorders examined in schizophrenia
New findings suggest childhood trauma and cannabis use disorders have no significant interaction in outcomes for patients with schizophrenia, according to Grégoire Baudin and his associates.
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Source: Family Practice News - July 11, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Docs to CMS: MACRA is too complex and should be delayed
The proposed federal regulations to implement the MACRA health care reforms are too complex, too onerous on small and solo practices, lack opportunities for many to participate in alternative payment... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 9, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Fee schedule includes expansion of Diabetes Prevention Program
An expansion of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), announced July 7 in the... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - July 8, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
