Family Practice News

There's been a lot of talk recently about how public health systems and primary care health professionals need to work together to solve the health problems our communities face.

All children attending public or private school must have proof of immunizations - a Florida Certificate of Immunization - before they are allowed to attend school.

Around 500 GPs and other delegates are converging on Christchurch this week for the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners' annual conference.

Eileen Kummant, M.D., has joined the Seton Family Health Center at 11087 Main Street in Martin.

George Wallace Brown, M.D., of Waynesville, passed away Saturday, July 19, 2014, at Martha's Vineyard Hospital in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

Patty DiRenzo said she knew there was a problem when her own family doctor wasn't aware of a key provision of a law enacted last year that is intended to prevent overdoses from heroin and other opioids.

Dr John Doddy, a GP at Hickings Lane Medical Centre in Stapleford, says the lack of GPs means our health service will soon be at breaking point SOON, very soon, there will not be enough GPs to cope.

Picture: Katrina Docking. Family doctors, who often see several members of a family and for many consecutive years, are well-placed to help their patients achieve good health as they have well-rounded knowledge of their health, family history of disease and have a rapport with the patient that makes discussing tricky topics a bit easier.

If you have not read my blogs before, I am a family physician, who retired because doctors did not diagnose my sleep apnea.

To thank Weyburn physicians for their dedication to the community and patients, presentations will be made at each of the three medical offices on Monday, July 21 during Physician Appreciation Week.

Because of the tremendous growth of the pharmaceutical industry over the last century, there has been a parallel increase of use of over-the-counter as well as prescription drugs.

Costanzo have nothing to disclose. are the most common bacterial cause, other organisms including viruses can cause AOM.

A clinic will open in Sumter and Florence at the end of July that could drive down healthcare costs across the community.

The Iowa Academy of Family Physicians is seeking nominations for the 2014 Family Physician of the Year.

To save members the time it would take to pore over the proposal for themselves and to help explain and prepare them for the potential changes, the AAFP has prepared a 12-page summary of the proposed schedule.

Family doctors and family physicians who deliver babies were the most requested search of hospitals, clinics, health centers and others engaged Merritt Hawkins and AMN Healthcare's other physician staffing companies to conduct during the 12-month period from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013.

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

Despite predictions that the nation's health care system could be overwhelmed by a flood of newly insured patients whose health coverage took effect this year, that's not the story family physicians are telling AAFP News .

Ontario spent nearly $110 million dollars between 2006 and 2010 on bonuses to motivate family doctors to screen more of their patients for cancer but these bonuses were associated with little or no improvement in actual cancer screening rates, according to researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences .

IN the midst of National Diabetes Week , ACT Medicare Local is encouraging Canberrans to see their local family doctor if they suspect they may be at risk for diabetes as many people have no symptoms and have undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes.