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Doctors Should Promote Sex Among Nursing Home ResidentsDoctors Should Promote Sex Among Nursing Home Residents
Bioethicist Arthur Caplan says that although doctors and families pay attention to the medical needs of elderly people, they should also be aware of the physical needs, including sexual activity. Medscape Internal Medicine
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 5, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Commentary Source Type: news

Organic Foods: Less Pesticide Exposure, Same NutritionOrganic Foods: Less Pesticide Exposure, Same Nutrition
A new systematic review reveals that an organic diet may decrease exposure to pesticides and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but offers the same nutritional value as a conventional diet. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 5, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news

Macular Eruption on Young Man's Palms: Quiz of the Week
Which of the following is the most likely cause of this skin eruption?
Source: Consultant Live - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

COPD Drug Offers Some Benefit in Asthma (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- A drug widely used in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is also effective in patients with asthma that is poorly controlled despite standard combination therapy, researchers reported.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

New Treatment Option for CML OK'd by FDA
(MedPage Today) -- Bosutinib (Bosulif), a targeted therapy, has won approval from the FDA for treatment of certain patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia, according to the drug's maker.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Healthcare a Star on DNC's First Night
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (MedPage Today) -- In contrast to the Republican National Convention's opening evening, the issue of healthcare was a star player on Tuesday, the first night of the Democratic National Convention.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Social Media and Medicine: A Winning Combination
Dr Farris Timimi, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic and Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, discusses the potential of social media to change the landscape of clinical practice.
Source: Consultant Live - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Have you outsourced your meaningful use implementation?
Primary care physicians, for a number of reasons, are reaching out to consultants to help them implement meaningful use stage 1 requirements, according to a new study from KLAS.
Source: Modern Medicine - September 5, 2012 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news

West Nile Virus Cases Up 25% in Past Week
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

DNA Declared Not Mostly 'Junk'
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Intermittent Androgen Suppression Works as Well as Continuous Suppression After Prostate Irradiation
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Brightly Colored Detergent Capsules Pose Accidental Ingestion Hazard
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Ginkgo Biloba: No-Go for Alzheimer's Prevention
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Evaluation of a Global Health Residency Track (Therese Zink MD, MPH)
Evaluation is critical for assuring the rigor, quality and continued funding of global health training programs during residency. This session will demonstrate and share the steps in place for evaluation at the University of MN. These include: 1) consent to use resident's responses and essays for evaluation (IRB reviewed), 2) ACGME competency-based curriculum, 3) goals and objectives menu for international rotations, 4) pre and post international health knowledge test, 5) on-line curriculum with knowledge assessment and 6) prompted responses for end of rotation essays. A review of 32 end-of -rotation essays demonstrated th...
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Tropical and HIV Dermatology (Thor Swanson MD)
Information about tropical diseases presented as part of Tropical and HIV Dermatology Seminar
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Get Ready, Get Set, Go! (Jonathan Adams MD)
How to get ready to go on a Global Health trip: paperwork, immunizations, food and drink precautions, enviornmental hazard preparations, cultural cautions to be aware of.
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Teaching Family Medicine in Africa (Barry J Bacon Family Practice Physician/Instructor)
Presentation - photos and outline.
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Shoulder to Shoulder Global (Tom L Young MD, MPH)
This handbook provides background information and quick reference material for providers on our medical brigades with Shoulder to Shoulder Global. This is not meant to be comprehensive but to orient new providers the community we serve and to frequently used protocols which have been adapted for work at the Centro Medico Hombro-A-Hombro and field clinics in the surrounding areas of Santo Domingo, Ecuador. Students, residents, faculty and volunteer physicians are encouraged to become familiar with this resource prior to departure.
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

How Does One Translate (Greg Kirschner MD, MPH)
This presentation shares the experience of two family medicine residency program directors from the USA and Nigeria as they have exchanged ideas and experiences in PCMH concepts in their respective environments.
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Applying Ethical Principles to Current Issues in Malawi (Martha Sommers)
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Progress and Challenges of Family Medicine in Albania (Valbona ILJAZI MD)
http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&piPK=73230&theSitePK=40941&menuPK=228424&Projectid=P082814 www.qkcsaish.gov.al http://www.abchealth.org/sq/education/conference www.qkev.gov.al http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACJ442.pdf http://albania.usaid.gov/shfaqart/295/26/Health_Centers_in_Albania_to_Practice_Family_Medicine.htm Department of Family Medicine Albania
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

A Unique Global Health Elective for Pre-clinical Medical Students (Dilip Nair MD)
Description of a global health elective designed for minimally trained, early-stage medical students to equip them to approach clinical global health field experiences in a more meaningful fashion. In particular, the elective emphasizes the central role of psychosocial contributors to health and disease. It also cultivates clinical reasoning and decision-making skills.
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Have You Seen My Wellness? (Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt PhD)
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Leprosy in the USA & Abroad: What the Family Physician Can Do (Ronald Pust MD)
Leprosy and its complications can be diagnosed and treated here and abroad by family physicians, who possess the diverse skilled needed to manage its diverse manifestations within a primary care context. Three simple affinities of Mycobacterium leprae predict and summarize the protean manifestations of clinical leprosy. In this session, participants will become proficient in suspecting, diagnosing and treating leprosy, including its ENT and limb complications. Powerpoint photos from the presenter's current practice will illustrate leprosy's clinical spectrum. Leprosy often first presents as an acute immunologic "reaction,"...
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 5, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Prescribing quality for older people in Norwegian nursing homes and home nursing services using multidose dispensed drugs
Source: Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Area: Evidence > Medicines Management > References Purpose: To examine and compare the quality of drug prescribing for older patients in nursing homes and home nursing services. Methods: Cross-sectional study comprising 11,254 patients aged 65?years or older in nursing homes (n?=?2986) and home nursing services (n?=?8268). Potentially inappropriate medications were identified by using the Norwegian General Practice criteria and drug-drug interactions through a Norwegian Web-based tool. The impact of care setting on exposure to selected drug groups, po...
Source: NeLM - Care of Older People - September 5, 2012 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news

Hike in HPV Vaccinations Lags Behind Tdap, Meningococcal Vaccine Increases
Although overall vaccine coverage among adolescents ages 13-17 is increasing at a healthy rate, the growth in the number of teens being vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is badly lagging behind increases among those vaccinated against pertussis and meningococcal disease, according to the CDC. The agency's Aug. 25 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Source: AAFP Health of the Public - September 4, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Experienced Doctors Are Better At Predicting Violence Among Patients
New research from the University of Michigan and published in Psychiatric Services states that new psychiatrists are not as likely as experienced ones to notice signs of violence among their patients. However, a basic checklist may prove effective in helping doctors recognize if patients are violent. Alan Teo, M.D., a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar of the University of Michigan, and his team analyzed how well psychiatrists could predict violence in their psychiatric patients...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 4, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news

Common Chemical May Raise Heart Risk (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Serum levels of a chemical found in many industrial and household products are associated with adverse clinical outcomes in middle-age and older adults, researchers found.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - September 4, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Minnesotas Registered Nurse Workforce 2009-2010
Reports on the data collected from the Minnesota registered nurses (RNs) workforce surveys collected during the biennial licensing renewal process from 2009 to 2010. -- Minnesota Department of Health - Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Source: Rural publications via the Rural Assistance Center - September 4, 2012 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

What's Next for Health ReformWhat's Next for Health Reform
This new report outlines some of the expected upcoming changes to the healthcare system in the US in the next decade. The Nation's Health
Source: Medscape Med Students Headlines - September 4, 2012 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Journal Article Source Type: news

Primary Care Trust Prescribing Data - England, April to June 2012
SummaryThis release contains data for the quarters April - June 2008 to April - June 2012. Other quarters will be added subsequently. Note that there ...
Source: The IC : Prescriptions - September 4, 2012 Category: Health Management Source Type: news

Which Vaccines Do College Students Need?Which Vaccines Do College Students Need?
Do your new college students have everything they need for college, including immunity? Medscape Pharmacists
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 4, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Ask the Expert Source Type: news

Expensive Health Care Isn’t Always Best
Report Identifies High-Quality Primary Care Groups With Low Costs WebMD Medical News By Salynn Boyles Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD Aug. 31, 2012 — When it comes to health care, higher costs don’t always mean better care. That’s according to a report published this week by Consumer Reports. Independent investigators compared quality and cost for 18 primary care groups in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. They found that one of the groups with the lowest costs rated highest for quality of care. The analysis shows that the old saying “You get what you pay for” doesn’t always apply to ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - September 4, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: mreal197 Tags: WebMD News Source Type: news

Ireland Cuts Elderly Care to Plug Health OverspendIreland Cuts Elderly Care to Plug Health Overspend
Ireland's health service will cut back on care for the elderly and overtime pay to find 130 million euros ($163 million) of new savings aimed at halting a spending overrun. Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 4, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news

Helminthiasis Presenting as Microcytic Anemia
A 59-year-old Asian female presented to the emergency department with right lower quadrant abdominal pain and diarrhea of 2 weeks duration. A complete blood count revealed microcytic anemia.
Source: Consultant Live - September 4, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Manifestations—and Mimics—of Secondary Syphilis
Syphilis is often called the "great imitator." The slides that follow show syphilis in various guises--and various disorders that can mimic the cutaneous manifestations of the sexually transmitted infection.
Source: Consultant Live - September 4, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Chemical Intolerance in Primary Care SettingsChemical Intolerance in Primary Care Settings
Chemical intolerance is a common problem in primary care settings, yet is rarely diagnosed. Which factors may help identify this condition? Annals of Family Medicine
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 4, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Journal Article Source Type: news

Does Gallows Humor Among Physicians Encourage Accusations Of Murder And Euthanasia?
In a recent survey of palliative care medicine practitioners, nearly three quarters of the sample reported having been "humorously" accused of promoting death; for example, being called "Dr. Death." Most of the remarks came from fellow physicians and other health care professionals. At the same time, the survey found that a third of investigations into accusations of murder or euthanasia against physicians are instigated by fellow members of the health care team...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 4, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news

AAFP-Global Health-Global Nutritional Diseases (Thor Swanson MD)
Information slides (without pictures but does have original reference of pictures) for my seminar at AAFP global health conference on thursday September 6th on Global Nutritional Diseases.
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - September 4, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Patients with Diabetes Derive Less Benefit from Clopidogrel After MI
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 4, 2012 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Biologic Response Modifiers Not Associated with Increased Cancer Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 4, 2012 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Longer Resuscitation Attempts Associated with Greater Success
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 4, 2012 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Nearly One Third of U.S. Adults Have Hypertension
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 4, 2012 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Primary Care Trust Prescribing Data - England, April to June 2012
Source: The NHS Information Centre Area: News The NHS Information Centre has issued the Primary Care Trust Prescribing data for England for April to June 2008, and April to June 2012. Please see link for details.
Source: NeLM - News - September 4, 2012 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news

The nursing voice
Watch two videos looking at the role of nurses and the RCN in the evolving NHS landscape Related items from OnMedicaCommissioning must involve nurses moreRCN refutes claims it supported Health BillNurses urged to fight regional pay plansOver a third of nursing posts earmarked for cuts
Source: OnMedica Views - September 4, 2012 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Effect of health literacy on drug adherence in patients with heart failure
Source: Pharmacotherapy Area: Evidence > Medicines Management > References Study Objective: To assess the effect of health literacy on drug adherence in the context of a pharmacist-based intervention for patients with heart failure. Design: Post hoc analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Setting: Inner-city ambulatory care practice affiliated with an academic medical centre in the USA. Patients: The original trial enrolled 314 patients with heart failure who were aged 50 years or older and were taking at least one cardiovascular drug for heart failure; 122 patients received the pharmacist intervention (p...
Source: NeLM - Cardiovascular Medicine - September 4, 2012 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Cohort study: Association of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and all cause mortality in people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes
Source: BMJ Area: News According to a retrospective cohort study published early online in the British Medical Journal, a blood pressure below 130/80 mm Hg was not associated with reduced risk of all cause mortality in patients with newly diagnosed diabetes, with or without known cardiovascular disease. Researchers examined the effect of systolic and diastolic blood pressure achieved in the first year of treatment on all cause mortality in patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, with and without established cardiovascular disease. Patient data from the United Kingdom General Practice Research Database ov...
Source: NeLM - Cardiovascular Medicine - September 4, 2012 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Primary Care: Not Worth It for Women?
New research finds that female physicians might be better off becoming physician assistants.
Source: Physicians Practice - September 3, 2012 Category: Practice Management Source Type: news

NICE: Recruitment to the Quality Standards Advisory Committees
Recruitment has now begun for a number of additional members to join the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Quality Standards Advisory Committee. They are looking to appoint the following standing members: Public health professionals (including those working in local authority or NHS settings such as doctors and nurses, practitioners or officers); primary care professionals (such as GPs or practice nurses); secondary care health providers (such as senior nurses, allied health professionals, clinical directors, pharmacists); and secondary care managers (such as clinical service managers). Inform...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - September 3, 2012 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news

Diabetes UK Primary Care Poster Award
The aim of this award is to encourage nurses, GPs, podiatrists, dietitians and professionals working in diabetes and primary care to communicate new initiatives, and evidence based practice and project working through the abstract/poster process. Abstracts on improvements in primary healthcare will be particularly welcomed. The award will be for the best poster abstract submitted at the Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference (13-15 March 2013, Manchester). All health professionals working in primary care (eg GP practices, pharmacies, outreach clinics if manned by primary care) are eligible to apply for this award wh...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - September 3, 2012 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news