Christina Valerio, Ryan Williamson
Children commonly ingest foreign objects; prompt evaluation, imaging, and object-specific management may be necessary.
Pamela M. Williams, Alan L. Williams
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.
Sarah Coles
Family physicians should be aware of the risks and benefits of recommended immunizations to accurately counsel about adverse effects and address vaccine hesitancy.
Winfred Frazier, Courtney Goettel, Parul Chaudhri
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.
Fay Roepcke, Ashley E. Jones, Kerac N. Falk
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...
Robert L. Gauer, Ryan McNutt, Kevon Bryan
Heat-related illnesses are largely preventable with acclimatization, hydration, risk-factor modification, and early recognition and treatment.
Key clinical questions and their evidence-based answers directly from the journal’s content, written by and for family physicians.
Dominika Jegen
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.
Lindsey M. Knowles, Kristen M. O'Loughlin, Nicole L. Gentile, Tracy E. Herring
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.
Trenten L. Fenster, Jeongyoung Park, Alison N. Huffstetler, Michael Topmiller
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...
Joseph R. Yancey, Kathleen Bybel
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...
Dongsheng Jiang, Juan Qiu
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...
Wesley Roten, Anne Mounsey, Ryan Paulus
Given mixed evidence about beta blockers in post–myocardial infarction patients without heart failure, clinicians should continue to follow local practice recommendations.
Scott Cordts, Ryan Luce, Rebeca Nieves
Patients with more than one untreated leiomyoma of any size may have decreased fertility as measured by rates of pregnancy and live birth.
Llewellyn Mensah, Vikash Pernenkil
First-person accounts from the front lines of family medicine.
Courtney Humphrey, Lydia Bothwell
A 49-year-old man had concerns about a nail abnormality.
Mark Luff, Sidra Siddiqui, Mary Peter
A 59-year-old postmenopausal woman presented for a routine gynecological examination.
Aisha Townes, Allen F. Shaughnessy
Family physicians are best able to guide patients regarding vaccination hesitancy; strategies for communication include respectful communication and motivational interviewing.
Henry C. Barry
Nita Shrikant Kulkarni
Henry C. Barry
Mark H. Ebell
Michael J. Arnold
The American Heart Association (AHA) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published updated guidelines for resuscitation after drowning.
Michael J. Arnold
The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons published guidelines for the management of chronic constipation.
Henry C. Barry
Reply: Jason Deck
John Curington
Reply: James J. Arnold, David Villanueva, Jane Puntkatalee
Brian McDaniel, Julia Jenkins
Reply: Mark Ebell, David Slawson
Scott L. Paradise, Jase A. Schossow
Reply: J. Scott Earwood, Nancy A. Doles
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...
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.
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