Leawood, KS — The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) joins our colleagues across the health care community in encouraging patients of all ages to receive recommended vaccines to keep ...

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou Nearly 80% of women experience perimenopausal and menopausal vasomotor symptoms, with about one-half ...

Leawood, KS — The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) announced the release of our fall immunization recommendations, reinforcing our unwavering commitment to the health of communities across ...

Increasing numbers of patients are taking glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists solely for weight loss, and many aren’t telling their doctors. According to a recent KFF poll, 12% of adults ...

Suture and staple removal is a common procedure in family medicine and there are new CPT codes for it this year that cover related practice expenses and supplies: +15853 Removal of sutures or staples ...

*—Cost without insurance according to the manufacturer (Dr. Bruce Gillis, Epic-Genetics, email, January 24, 2021). †—Common fibromyalgia symptoms are chronic fatigue, many painful or tender areas, ...

Health maintenance for women of reproductive age includes counseling and screening tests that have been demonstrated to prevent disease and improve health. This article focuses mainly on conditions ...

Adults commonly present to their family physicians with hip pain, and diagnosing the cause is important for prescribing effective therapy. Hip pain is usually located anteriorly, laterally, or ...

Dystocia (abnormally slow or protracted labor) accounts for 25% to 55% of primary cesarean deliveries. The latent phase of labor begins with onset of regular, painful contractions and continues until ...

Peripheral neuropathy, a common neurologic problem encountered by family physicians, can be classified clinically by the anatomic pattern of presenting symptoms and, if indicated, by results of ...

• AAP, in contrast to the USPSTF, recommends screening for ASD at 18 and 24 months of age. • Chromosomal microarray and fragile X testing can provide prognostic and genetic counseling information to ...

Acute pyelonephritis is a bacterial infection of the kidney and renal pelvis and should be suspected in patients with flank pain and laboratory evidence of urinary tract infection. Urine culture with ...