Practice Management News

There is insufficient evidence showing the harms and benefits of primary care interventions to prevent child maltreatment, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force ruled in a final recommendation.

Medicare Part D spending on prescriptions filled at in-house pharmacies nearly quintupled from 2011 and 2019, topping out at $1.6 billion, with increases concentrated among high-cost drugs, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Use of an electronic health record-based intervention significantly increased PrEP use among patients of primary care physicians who care for people with HIV, a randomized trial found.

A record number of positions in primary care were offered in the 2024 Main Residency Match, according to the National Resident Matching Program, or NRMP.

I knew from day one of medical school that family medicine was for me. I wanted to be able to do a little bit of everything and treat people of all ages.

Precision medicine in rheumatoid arthritis expanded in a small but key measure late last year, when Quest Diagnostics and Scipher Medicine announced a partnership to provide RNA extraction and sequencing services for the latter’s PrismRA test.

In this edition, race identified as risk factor for VTE, FDA approves Rybrevant for treatment of non-small cell lung cancer and more.

Calcium and vitamin D supplementation decreased cancer mortality among postmenopausal women after more than 2 decades of follow-up but increased CVD mortality, researchers found.

A computerized clinical decision support system intervention reduced patients’ mean systolic BP and increased prescriptions of multiple medications, a study in JAMA Internal Medicine showed.

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