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(American Academy of Family Physicians) This report--describing the first national quality improvement collaborative focused on providing culturally affirming care for LGBT people--finds that making primary care practice...

Research into compassion fatigue suggests that the act of caring takes a toll on us.

(American Academy of Family Physicians) In France, the implementation of new prescribing rules for the sedative-hypnotic drug zolpidem led to an important and immediate decrease in use. This decline was partially compens...

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) A research team led by Kenta Maruyama M.D., Ph.D. from National Institute for Physiological Sciences explored the role of St18 in the regulation of VEGF expression. Mice lacking ...

(eLife ) The death of a twin, especially earlier in life, can increase the risk of their surviving twin being diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, finds a new study published today in eLife.

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Until recently, economists, policy makers and workforce experts have relied on outdated and inaccurate snapshots of the US physician workforce, making it especially difficult to pr...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) While multiple recent studies have provided evidence of the benefits of case management, primary care teams have struggled to implement and sustain its use in their clinical practi...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) In November 2019, clinicians, health administrators, educators and researchers from around the world gathered in Toronto to discuss how to best address social determinants of healt...

(Arizona State University) A recent study showed that compared to moderate weather conditions, hikers' performance during hot weather was impaired, resulting in slower hiking speeds and prolonged exposure to the elements...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) For information from Johns Hopkins Medicine about the coronavirus pandemic, visit hopkinsmedicine.org/coronavirus. For information on the coronavirus from throughout the Johns Hopkins enterprise,...

(Case Western Reserve University) Researchers at Case Western Reserve University reviewed national data from the U.S. Census Bureau and found associations between states' voting patterns in the 2016 presidential election...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) An investigational vaccine, mRNA-1273, designed to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was generally well tolerated and prompted neutral...

(George Washington University) Silver strands and graying hair is a sign of aging in humans, but things aren't so simple for our closest ape relatives--the chimpanzee. A new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE ...

(University of California - Davis Health) UC Davis researchers have found that combining a Western-style high-fat diet with antibiotic use significantly increases the risk of developing pre- inflammatory bowel disease. T...

(Institute for In Vitro Sciences) RIFM, Shiseido, and IIVS share the common goal of promoting the development and use of in vitro photosafety methods.

(University of Southern California - Health Sciences) Keck Medicine of USC physicians are enrolling patients as part of an international clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an antiviral drug, DAS181, as...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Nine out of 10 US men ages 18 to 35 support health care providers asking about intimate partner violence, according to new survey analysis. Data from a 2014 nationally representati...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) The authors of this study developed a single risk score derived from multiple social determinants of health that predicts county-level cardiovascular disease mortality. The authors...

(Impact Journals LLC) The cover for issue 28 of Oncotarget features Figure 5, 'TMEM165 expression levels alters N-linked glycosylation,' by Murali, et al., and reported that the TMEM165 protein was not detected in non-ma...

(Impact Journals LLC) Volume 11, Issue 28 of Oncotarget features 'Lipid and protein tumor markers for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma identified by imaging mass spectrometry' by Schmidt et, al. which reported that ...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) As a rapid influx of patients overwhelmed health systems during the coronavirus pandemic, palliative nurses played dual roles supporting patients, patient families, and coll...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) This study analyzes patterns of participation in the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus initiative which is the largest voluntary primary care payment and delivery reform model tested...