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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 30-Apr-2025 08:08 ET (30-Apr-2025 12:08 GMT/UTC)

27-Jan-2025

Study highlights general practitioner strategies to ease type 2 diabetes management burden

American Academy of Family Physicians
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Managing type 2 diabetes involves complex treatment, workload, and costs that impose a significant burden on individuals, impacting their physical and mental health. This study examines how general practitioners (GPs) in China identify and respond to these burdens during patient consultations.

Journal: The Annals of Family Medicine

27-Jan-2025

Flexible practice-centric approach improves behavioral health integration in primary care practices

American Academy of Family Physicians
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This study evaluated whether a tailored, toolkit-based intervention could improve IBH and patient outcomes in primary care practices serving patients with multiple chronic medical and behavioral health conditions.

Journal: The Annals of Family Medicine

27-Jan-2025

Peer health navigators improve health equity and patient well-being for transgender and gender-diverse patients

American Academy of Family Physicians
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This study examined the effectiveness of a peer health navigator pilot program in Saskatchewan, Canada that aimed to improve access to affirming health care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals.

Journal: The Annals of Family Medicine

27-Jan-2025

Support program for small, rural primary care clinics increases their ability to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder fivefold

American Academy of Family Physicians
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This study evaluated a structured support program to help small, rural primary care clinics improve their capacity to provide this treatment.

Journal: The Annals of Family Medicine

27-Jan-2025

Primary care physicians face significant gaps in caring for adopted adults with limited family medical history

American Academy of Family Physicians
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This study explored the approaches of primary care physicians when caring for adult adopted patients with limited family medical history.

Journal: The Annals of Family Medicine

27-Jan-2025

Taking blood pressure in a public or noisy settings does not affect reading

American College of Physicians
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A randomized crossover trial found minimal difference between blood pressure (BP) readings obtained in public spaces versus those taken in private offices.

Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine

27-Jan-2025

Rice researchers lead project using quantum phenomenon to transform super-resolution imaging

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Rice and Texas A&M has received a $1.2 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation to advance super-resolution imaging and single-molecule tracking by harnessing super-radiance, a quantum optical phenomenon with transformative potential for research and innovation in medicine, engineering and the physical sciences.

Funder: W. M. Keck Foundation