Articles
Foreign Body Ingestion in Children
Children commonly ingest foreign objects; prompt evaluation, imaging, and object-specific management may be necessary.
Thrombocytosis: Rapid Evidence Review
Thrombocytosis is defined by guidelines as a platelet count of 450 × 103/μL or greater. Elevated platelet counts result from a primary condition or secondary cause. Secondary causes of thrombocytosis must be ruled out before a primary diagnosis may be made.
Vaccine Adverse Effects: An Overview
Family physicians should be aware of the risks and benefits of recommended immunizations to accurately counsel about adverse effects and address vaccine hesitancy.
Systemic Sclerosis: Evaluation and Treatment
Systemic sclerosis is a rare autoimmune disease characterized by progressive skin fibrosis and associated with high morbidity. Early diagnosis is critical and requires a comprehensive, individualized approach.
Bladder Pain Syndrome: Rapid Evidence Review
Bladder pain syndrome is a chronic condition diagnosed by excluding other causes, with initial evaluation involving history, physical examination, urinalysis, and symptom diaries. Treatment starts with behavioral and lifestyle changes and may include medications or procedural…
Heat-Related Illnesses
Heat-related illnesses are largely preventable with acclimatization, hydration, risk-factor modification, and early recognition and treatment.
AFP Clinical Answers
Cold Water Immersion, Bronchiolitis in Infants, Trigeminal Neuralgia, HIV Screening, Buprenorphine and OUD, Beta2 Agonists for Acute Bronchitis, Nasal Foreign Body
Key clinical questions and their evidence-based answers directly from the journal’s content, written by and for family physicians.
Editorials
Integrating Drinking Water Safety Into Routine Practice
Safe drinking water is essential to human health, but it is often overlooked in routine clinical care. Family physicians are uniquely positioned to ask patients about their water sources and provide practical counseling.
Managing Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in Long COVID
Adults with long COVID face increased risk for anxiety and depression due to complex factors and benefit from a trauma-informed biopsychosocial approach to screening, assessment, and treatment.
Graham Center Policy One-Pager
Graduate Medical Education Funding Does Not Flow to Primary Care Physician Production
In many parts of the US, there is only one primary care physician per 2,000 people. This shortage is expected to worsen in the next decade. Although the need for primary care physicians is clear, the relationship between graduate medical education spending and primary care…
Cochrane for Clinicians
HPV Vaccination of Adolescents: Factors That Influence Caregiver and Adolescent Views and Practices
Factors that influence adolescents and caregivers worldwide regarding adolescent receipt of the HPV vaccination fit into one of eight broad themes: (1) biomedical knowledge; (2) perceptions of the risks and benefits of HPV vaccination; (3) views of other vaccines or vaccination…
Fall Prevention: Interventions for Older Adults in Care Facilities
Multifactorial interventions not tailored to individual needs (ie, defined as two or more strategies based on general risk profiles) probably have little or no effect on fall rate and may only modestly reduce overall fall risk. In contrast, tailored interventions, which are…
FPIN's Clinical Inquiries
Beta Blockers to Improve Post-MI Outcomes in Patients Without HF
Given mixed evidence about beta blockers in post–myocardial infarction patients without heart failure, clinicians should continue to follow local practice recommendations.
FPIN's Help Desk Answers
Uterine Leiomyomas as a Risk Factor for Infertility
Patients with more than one untreated leiomyoma of any size may have decreased fertility as measured by rates of pregnancy and live birth.
Diary of a Family Physician
Diary of a Family Physician
First-person accounts from the front lines of family medicine.
Photo Quiz
Nail Abnormality With Vertical Streaks
A 49-year-old man had concerns about a nail abnormality.
Cervical Mass
A 59-year-old postmenopausal woman presented for a routine gynecological examination.
Curbside Consultation
Vaccine Conversations: Meeting Patients Where They Are
Family physicians are best able to guide patients regarding vaccination hesitancy; strategies for communication include respectful communication and motivational interviewing.
POEMs
Practice Guidelines
Resuscitation After Drowning in Children: Updated Guidelines From the AHA and AAP
The American Heart Association (AHA) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published updated guidelines for resuscitation after drowning.
Management of Chronic Constipation: Guidelines From the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons published guidelines for the management of chronic constipation.
Letters to the Editor
Comments About Evidence-Based Vasectomy
Reply: James J. Arnold, David Villanueva, Jane Puntkatalee
Benefits vs Harms of More Intensive Systolic BP Targets
Reply: Mark Ebell, David Slawson
What Do Guidelines Say About First-Line Treatment of Acute Low Back Pain?
Reply: J. Scott Earwood, Nancy A. Doles
Corrections
Corrections
Incorrect units. “DASH Diet for the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases” (Cochrane for Clinicians, February 2026, p. 127) included incorrect units from the Cochrane Review and subsequent incorrect conversions to conventional units in the Practice…
Corrections
Incorrect formulation. “Menopause Management: When Hormone Therapy Is Appropriate” (Editorials, February 2026, p. 115) referred to the incorrect formulation of estradiol in Table 2. The online version of the article has been corrected.