Family Practice News

The rate of children and youth with mental health and substance abuse issues is on the rise in the Williams Lake area, said elementary school counsellor Rana Grace.

Chase's Doctor Recruitment Committee reports that Dr. Gursharan Gill has decided to leave Chase in July, so the committee's mission is now a little more urgent.

With tree pollination emerging, and after a winter of above-average snowfall, pollen and mold spores will trigger more allergies in Pennsylvanian this spring.

According to the Central Okanagan Division of Family Practice, there is already a shortage of general practitioners in the area.

Both Adacel and GlaxoSmithKline's Tdap product, Boostrix, now share the same age indication, which may be helpful for health care professionals if Tdap vaccination is required for middle school enrollment.

While a growing number of doctors at small-town hospitals are no longer able to deliver babies, Sioux Center Health is building a new birthing center.

Although it's tempting to think otherwise, planning for the transition to the ICD-10-CM code sets for outpatient diagnostic coding still should be at or near the top of family physicians' "to do" lists.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of a patient decision aid , distributed to patients by their family physician, in improving fecal occult blood test colorectal cancer screening rates.

The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American Academy of Ophthalmology have issued an educational update The good news is family physicians can play a role in reducing the likelihood of these adverse events by ensuring that patients who take these drugs know the importance of notifying their ophthalmologist before the eye ... (more)

The Obama administration says it met its goal of enrolling seven-Million Americans in health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Doctors in Gloucestershire have said proposals for longer GP opening hours and patient checkups over Skype will lead to surgeries "struggling to cope."

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has selected Dr. Barbara Easterling Smith as associate chief medical officer for all its lines of business.

When Dr. Bret Batchelor arrived in Vanderhoof as a medical school trainee he quickly became interested in the operating room at St. John Hospital.

Millions of patients are going to be able to see their family doctors outside of work hours thanks to a new fund to extend GP opening times, the Prime Minister has announced.

Patients will be able to visit their GPs outside of work hours under plans announced by David Cameron to boost access to family doctors.

More than 1,000 GP surgeries will start offering appointments in the evening and at weekends, David Cameron will announce tomorrow.

We launched ArcheMedX last year to transform the way clinicians learn online. ArcheMedX provides an e-learning platform that enables healthcare organizations, such as the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians, to dramatically increase and accelerate improvement in learning, competency, and ... (more)

For 12 hours a day, the waiting room at Dr. Gustavo Villarreal's family practice is often packed with patients, people who will pay a flat $50 fee for the convenience - or necessity - of a walk-in, quick-turn doctor's visit.

A Yale student says the university threatened to kick her out unless she gained weight.

Agassiz Dr. Wayne Phimister spoke at a community forum on health care at Cheam Village.