A meta - analysis of studies of the relationship between fiber and blood glucose levels published in The Journal of the American Board
of Family Medicine found that increased fiber intake can reduce blood glucose levels during the standard fasting blood glucose test (a test of blood sugar levels after an overnight fast).
A study reported in the Archives
of Family Medicine found that kids who regularly sit down with their families for an evening meal make wiser food choices, eat more vegetables, and get more nutrients than those who do not.2 For older children, the American Psychological Association found that family mealtime plays an important role in helping teens deal with the pressures of adolescence, such as motivation for school, peer relationships, depression, and making better choices with drugs and alcohol.
One recent study published in the journal Annals
of Family Medicine found that the link between staying hydrated and staying slim is much stronger than most of us think.
Not exact matches
Writing from the perspective
of health - care providers working in trauma
medicine, the researchers advised fans
of Grey's Anatomy who
found themselves or their
family members in emergency departments after traumatic injury, that they could hold unrealistic expectations
of their care and recovery.
With Riley at IU Health Primary Care, you'll
find the most highly skilled network
of general pediatrician and
family medicine providers.
In fact, a study published by The Archives
of Internal
Medicine found that for women with an immediate
family member who had breast cancer, those who breastfeed have a 59 % lower risk
of developing breast cancer.
A study by the Department
of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington D.C.
found that outside sources, such as antibiotics, can kill both bad and good bacteria and lead to abdominal distress.
Dr. Lester and his colleague, James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician - in - chief and chief
of Neonatal / Perinatal
Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh - William and Elsa Zopfi Professor
of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which
found that a single -
family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels
of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind
of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome
of the preterm infant and lead to the development
of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.
Dr. Lester and his colleague, James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician - in - chief and chief
of Neonatal / Perinatal
Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh — William and Elsa Zopfi Professor
of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which
found that a single -
family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels
of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind
of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome
of the preterm infant and lead to the development
of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.
Taub helped
found the Mesothelioma Center at Columbia University and is the Vivian and Seymour Milstein
Family professor
of clinical
medicine at the Columbia College
of Physicians and Surgeons.
While Antoon believes the
findings, which are published in the Annals
of Family Medicine, will help to alleviate some fears health care providers may have about prescribing the medication in healthy children, he says doctors will likely continue to prescribe Tamiflu with caution.
Of course, some people may find more family time to be like a lot of good medicine — hard to swallo
Of course, some people may
find more
family time to be like a lot
of good medicine — hard to swallo
of good
medicine — hard to swallow.
«Patients,
family members, and healthcare providers should work together to
find solutions to the barriers preventing a patient from participating in a structured exercise programs, because exercise programs can help patients manage their condition,» said Lauren B. Cooper, M.D., lead author
of the study and a fellow in cardiovascular diseases at the Duke University School
of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.
«While tumor profiling holds the promise
of improved therapeutics through personalized
medicine, it is important that both clinicians and patients discuss the possibilities of incidental findings prior to ordering the testing, as the findings can have serious implications for both the patient and their family members,» said Melinda Yushak, M.D., M.P.H., first author on the study and a medical oncology fellow in Yale School of M
medicine, it is important that both clinicians and patients discuss the possibilities
of incidental
findings prior to ordering the testing, as the
findings can have serious implications for both the patient and their
family members,» said Melinda Yushak, M.D., M.P.H., first author on the study and a medical oncology fellow in Yale School
of MedicineMedicine.
«We
found that even in those with high levels
of vitamin D over 50 ng / mL, there was not an increased risk
of hypercalcemia, or elevated serum calcium, with increasing levels
of vitamin D,» says study co-author Thomas D. Thacher, M.D., a
family medicine expert at Mayo Clinic.
In a new, first -
of - its - kind study, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School
of Medicine have
found a 700 - percent surge in infections caused by bacteria from the Enterobacteriaceae
family resistant to multiple kinds
of antibiotics among children in the US.
«Our
findings suggest that we need to help clinicians better understand the impact personal experiences with friends and
family members, as well as their patients, have on their practices,» says Craig Evan Pollack, M.D., M.H.S., associate professor
of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study's lead
medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine and the study's lead
Medicine and the study's lead author.
«These
findings provide strong support for
Family Based Interpersonal Psychotherapy as an effective treatment for depression in children between the ages
of 7 - 12,» said Laura J. Dietz, Ph.D., assistant professor
of psychology and psychiatry at the University
of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine and principal investigator
of the study.
The
findings appear in the Journal
of the American Board
of Family Medicine and are based on the most recent data available from the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication from 2001 - 2003.
A 2012 study by Tony Antoniou, a pharmacist and research scholar in the Department
of Family Medicine at St. Michael's
found that many heterosexual men feel existing HIV - related programs and services don't meet their needs and are geared primarily or exclusively toward gay men and heterosexual women who are living with the virus.
«It's really exciting that we have
found a mechanism we can target to create new treatments for this devastating disease,» said lead investigator J. Timothy Greenamyre, M.D., Ph.D., Love
Family Professor
of Neurology in Pitt's School
of Medicine and director
of the Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (PIND).
Lisa DeCamp, M.D., M.S.P.H., assistant professor
of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine and the study's senior author, noted that although parental surveys
of this kind have weaknesses in terms
of parent responses reflecting the breadth
of traumas children may be exposed to, the
findings, published in the Oct. issue
of the journal Pediatrics, offer new insight into potentially higher childhood resiliency among immigrant
families supported by strong community networks and a strong sense
of cultural identity.
We know
families find it extremely difficult living in limbo without a precise diagnosis, particularly in this current era
of increasing precision
medicine.
«This is a very commonly used opportunity for young people, especially girls, to be physically active and we
find that they are inactive most
of the time during dance classes,» said senior author James Sallis, PhD, professor in the Department
of Family Medicine and Public Health.
Army STARRS researchers, led by study co-principal investigators, Robert J. Ursano, MD, chairman
of the Department
of Psychiatry at the F. Edward Hébert School
of Medicine, Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences, and Murray B. Stein, MD, MPH, Professor
of Psychiatry and
Family and Preventive
Medicine at the University
of California, San Diego,
found that a majority (58.2 %)
of soldiers who ever thought
of suicide had these thoughts before enlistment, 76.6 %
of soldiers with current mental disorders had onsets before enlistment, and nearly half (47 %)
of soldiers who ever made a suicide attempt did so for the first time before enlistment.
In an effort not to impinge on a woman's or a
family's exercise
of individual autonomy, physicians in reproductive
medicine might feel compelled to comply with decisions they
find ill - advised.
In 2002, the research team for TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), led in the U.S. by principal investigator Dorothy Becker, M.D., professor
of pediatrics at Children's Hospital and the University
of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine, embarked on a large - scale study
of 2,159 infants with a
family member affected by type 1 diabetes and with genetic risk for type 1 diabetes to
find out whether delaying the exposure to complex foreign proteins such as cow's milk proteins would decrease the risk
of diabetes.
«Next - generation sequencing technology has allowed us to
find new causes
of genetic diseases in much smaller
families,» explained the study's lead author, William Motley, MD, PhD, a resident physician in
Medicine.
One in five pediatricians dismiss
families who refuse to vaccinate their children, according to
findings published in the journal Pediatrics and based on research by faculty from the University
of Colorado School
of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
In earlier phases
of the study — published in the American Journal
of Public Health and the Annals
of Family Medicine — the research team
found that about two - thirds
of the participating doctors had varying levels
of «implicit,» or unconscious, bias against African Americans or Latinos.
Writing in the journal Neurobiology
of Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor
of psychiatry and co-director
of the Center for Behavior Genetics
of Aging at UC San Diego School
of Medicine,
found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death
of a
family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains
of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging risk.
«Our
findings suggest that giving
families good instructions about how to reduce the mouse allergens that trigger asthma in their children may be enough to get the job done and, consequently, improve asthma symptoms,» says Elizabeth Matsui, M.D., M.H.S., professor
of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine and the paper's lead author.
Dr. Charis Eng, the
founding chair
of the Genomic
Medicine Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, says that doing a comprehensive
family history with your primary care doctor is the first step.
The Canadian doctor, a
family medicine resident at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, has already influenced the intersection
of health and policy, from
founding the Harvard Public Health Review to advising one
of Canada's top health officials.
Researchers at the University
of California, Los Angeles, School
of Medicine found an association between the 240 - letter variant and ADHD in a population
of families with two or more affected children.
To
find out more, we spoke with Pauline J. Jose, MD, a clinical instructor in UCLA's Department
of Family Medicine.
Previously, Dr. Mosconi
founded and was the director
of the Nutrition & Brain Fitness Lab at New York University School
of Medicine (NYU) and an assistant professor in the NYU Department
of Psychiatry, where she served as the director
of the
Family History
of Alzheimer's disease research program.
Influenced by her
family's medical history, she has taken the best
of modern
medicine, traditional
medicine, and alternative
medicine to
find a level
of health she didn't know existed.
Recent research
found that multiple 60 - minute massages per week were more effective than fewer or shorter sessions for people with chronic neck pain, according to a study published in the Annals
of Family Medicine; another compared the short - and long - term effects
of structural massage (think therapeutic, deep - tissue treatments), relaxation massage (your general spa variety), and usual care (like meds, ice, and heat) for chronic low - back - pain sufferers.
This is what helped: We
found a functional
medicine doctor who understood alternative healing methods; the
family member was allergic to a number
of foods, including most grains and milk; we elevated the bed, so that the head was about six inches higher than the foot; tight restrictive clothing, especially around the waist, gave way to sweat pants with more comfort; greasy funk foods, alchohol, food colorings, flavorings, food additives, all were eliminated — in favor
of preparing real food; food was eaten several hours before bed time with no big late night meals.
The focus
of the
family - owned company,
founded in 1885, is on researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing new medications
of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary
medicine.
That's the size
of the dedicated volunteer force at PAWS Chicago, a shelter that includes a state -
of - the - art Adoption Center that
finds homes for nearly 6,000 pets annually; the Lurie Spay / Neuter Clinic and the GusMobile, which spays and neuters 18,000 pets each year for low - income
families; and, on top
of all that, PAWS Chicago also has a cutting edge shelter
medicine and behavior program.
The focus
of the
family - owned company,
founded in 1885, is researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing new medications
of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary
medicine.
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They continue to place the pregnancies
of refugee women at serious risk, cause denial
of treatment for sick children and deprive refugees with cancer
of coverage for chemotherapy», said Dr. Philip Berger, a
founding member
of Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care and Chief
of Family Medicine at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital.
The public was as likely to confuse mediation with meditation, and consumer use
of mediation was limited to those with the courage and foresight to
find out about mediation, locate someone who would mediate, and withstand pressure from
family lawyers and well - meaning friends and
family who equated mediation with other risky innovations such as natural childbirth and homeopathic
medicine.
1971 Louis M. Hellman, MD Louis M. Hellman, MD,
founded the
family planning clinic at the College
of Medicine of the State University
of New York, where doctors and nurses from around the world learned procedures that enabled them to establish similar clinics in their homelands.
He is currently a clinical professor
of psychiatry at the UCLA School
of Medicine,
founding co-director
of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center,
founding co-investigator at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain and Development, and executive director
of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals,
families, institutions, and communities.
The Institute
of Medicine, the medical branch
of the National Academy
of Sciences, recently
found that 40 %
of mental health practitioners have had absolutely no training in DV at any point in their professional careers (Felicia Cohn, Marla E. Salmon, & John D. Stobo, Confronting Chronic Neglect: The Education and Training
of Health Professionals on
Family Violence, 50 (National Academy Press, 2002)-RRB-.
The public was as likely to confuse mediation with meditation, and consumer use
of mediation was limited to those with the courage and foresight to
find out about mediation, locate someone who would mediate, and withstand pressure from
family lawyers and well - meaning friends and
family who equated mediation with other risky innovations such as natural childbirth and homeopathic
medicine.