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CMS announces “top 10” costly drugs list selected for price negotiations
Two weeks ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the first 10 brand name medications that it will negotiate Medicare Part D…
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For accurate blood pressure measurement, cuff size matters
A thought-provoking editorial in the August issue of American Family Physician discussed the reasons for the divergence in treatment guidelines for mild…
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Preventing Overdiagnosis: do Americans have too many cancer screening choices?
At the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference in Copenhagen last week, I joined nearly four hundred like-minded family and subspecialist physicians, health…
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Get out the vote: supporting civic health in primary care
The national organization Vot-ER has designated August as Civic Health Month, “a time to showcase the link between voting and health and celebrate…
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Current prescriptions for addressing health-related social needs fall short
According to one recent estimate, cumulative poverty (earning less than 50% of median household income in at least one of the past 10 years) and current…
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Increasing recognition of Parkinson disease in Black patients
A recent news story in The Philadelphia Inquirer profiled a Black woman who visited her primary care physician for upper body pain, stiffness, and an…
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To break the UK's National Health Service, roll out prostate cancer screening
The United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) is celebrating its 75th anniversary this month. Long hailed as a model health system that provided…
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Many areas of the U.S. lack integrated behavioral health in primary care
A Graham Center Policy One-Pager in the June issue of American Family Physician overlaid the geographic locations of integrated behavioral health…
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