Family Practice News

Tao Naiyu moved from his old apartment three months ago and has a community health centre adjacent to his new home.

Demand for physician assistants and nurse practitioners is up, in part because of the move toward retail medicine and convenience care.

A Merchantville family doctor was suspended by the state Board of Medical Examiners for being "an easy mark" for patients looking for painkillers.

Dear Savvy Senior, What kinds of health problems do geriatricians treat? My mother, who is 80, takes several different medications for various health problems, but she hasn't been feeling herself lately.

Here's a scenario that may sound familiar: A patient with uncontrolled diabetes has missed his last three medical appointments and then shows up at his family physician's office with a festering foot ulcer.

Dr. Shirley Sze of the Thompson Region Division of Family Practice announced today that six new family doctors will arrive in Kamloops over the summer.

Family doctor, mother, volunteer, author. Born on May 9, 1944, in Toronto; died on Jan. 18, 2014, in Peterborough, Ont., of cancer, aged 69. When retired physician Joyce Barrett told her family that she had started yet another volunteer position - this time with a high-school program for teen moms - they weren't at all surprised.

Family physicians who refer their Medicare patients for home health services, order home health services and/or certify patients' eligibility for the Medicare home health benefit could see their administrative load lighten just a little next year.

The American Academy of Family Physicians has named Dr. Dennis Gingrich of Hershey as its 2014 Exemplary Teacher Award recipient.

Quebec Education Minister Yves Bolduc holds a news conference at the Quebec legislature in Quebec City on Tuesday, July 8, 2014.

The Teaching Health Center Program is awarding health facilities in the Mountain State with $1.65 million to support primary care physicians.

An additional 86 million people are at risk of developing this chronic disease. Diabetes claims more lives than the combination of breast cancer and AIDS, and is the leading cause of everything from heart and kidney failure to blindness to amputations.

Quebec Health Minister Gaetan Barrette said the program is under review and the findings will be released in the fall.

GPs are ideally placed to spot early warning signs of child maltreatment and to work with families to prevent them from getting worse, according to a joint report by the Royal College of General Practitioners , leading children's charity NSPCC and researchers from UCL and the University of Surrey.

Since 2006, British Columbia has spent more than a billion dollars to improve primary health care.

Recently, a family physician colleague asked me to explain why the Affordable Care Act requires private health insurers to provide first-dollar coverage for preventive services that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force assigns an "A" or "B" rating , but allows public insurers to determine if and how they will cover these services.

Although Canadians have timely access to some health-care services, writes Dr. Desmond Leddin, not all patients have family doctors and many endure long wait times to see specialists.

John S. Waters, a Family Practice Physician at Phillips Barber Family Health Center in Lambertville was presented the R. Kirk Seaton, Memorial Award.

Significant changes should be made to delivery and payment of telemedicine services, according to an article published by the American Academy of Family Physicians .

FAMILY doctors are receiving a smaller share of total NHS funding than at any point in the last decade, new figures have revealed.