Articles
Topical Corticosteroids: Choice and Application
Topical corticosteroids are an essential tool for treating inflammatory skin conditions. These medications are classified by strength and the risk of adverse effects such as atrophy, striae, rosacea, telangiectasias, purpura, and other cutaneous and systemic reactions. The…
Common Fractures of the Radius and Ulna
Fractures of the radius and ulna are the most common fractures of the upper extremity. The mechanism of injury is often sudden axial loading onto the radius or ulna, usually from a fall onto an outstretched hand with wrist extension. Patients with radius and ulna fractures…
Pain Management in Labor
Adequate analgesia during labor can increase a patient's sense of empowerment and control, which is associated with improved maternal satisfaction with childbirth. Individual patient priorities for labor pain management should be explored as a part of routine prenatal care…
Editorials
The KIDs List: Medications That Are Potentially Inappropriate in Children
The Key Potentially Inappropriate Drugs in Pediatrics (KIDs) List is an open access, evidence-based reference aimed at improving medication safety in children.
AFP Clinical Answers
Depression, HPV Immunizations, Coccidioidomycosis, Upper GI Bleeding, Headaches
Key clinical questions and their evidence-based answers directly from the journal’s content, written by and for family physicians.
Lown Right Care
Helping Ambivalent Patients Make Healthy Decisions About COVID-19
A collaboration between AFP and the Lown Institute promotes a vision of delivering health care that is based on the evidence, balanced in its approach, and focused on the patient.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for CVD Prevention in Adults with Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Recommendation Statement
The USPSTF recommends offering or referring adults with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors to behavioral counseling interventions to promote a healthy diet and physical activity.
Putting Prevention Into Practice
Screening for High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents
This PPIP quiz is based on the recommendations of the USPSTF.
Photo Quiz
Visual Disturbance and Skin Rash
A patient presented with progressive bilateral visual blurring and a maculopapular rash on the trunk.
Point-of-Care Guides
Canadian Syncope Risk Score: A Validated Risk Stratification Tool
Which adults presenting to an emergency department with syncope should be hospitalized?
STEPS
Bempedoic Acid (Nexletol) for the Treatment of Hyperlipidemia and Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Bempedoic acid is labeled as add-on therapy to diet and maximally tolerated statin for the treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia or atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Practice Guidelines
Medications for Smoking Cessation: Guidelines from the American Thoracic Society
The American Thoracic Society (ATS) published guidelines for medication initiation in tobacco-dependent adults based on a systematic review.
Letters to the Editor
Clinical Considerations for the Management of Hypertriglyceridemia
Reply: Robert C. Oh, Evan T. Trivette
Information from Your Family Doctor
Managing Pain in Labor
There is no way to know what your labor will be like. Pain during childbirth is different for everyone. Some women need little or no pain relief. Others find that pain medicine gives them better control over their labor and delivery. Women who regularly take opioid medications…