Family Medicine

What's new in osteoporosis screening and fracture prevention? In the two years since publication of the latest American Family Physician review articl...

Match Day on March 21, 2025 unfolded similarly to the National Resident Matching Program in previous years. My program successfully recruited a full c...

Migraine headaches: diagnostic and treatment tips A patient with a history of headaches is brought by ambulance to the emergency department for the ab...

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts (the Roberts Court) has made several high-profile rulings affecting health care over the past two d...

The U.S. is one of only a few countries in the world that relies on colonoscopy as a primary method of screening for colorectal cancer (rather than re...

This month, President Trump nominated Dr. Casey Means, a former ear, nose, and throat surgeon who dropped out of residency and reinvented herself as a...

Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed The US Preventive Services Task Force, the American Academy of Family Physicians...

Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race During the Cold War, the United States and the former Soviet Union amassed nuclear we...

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in th...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s agenda, he says, is chronic disease prevention. He wants Americans to eat fewer ultra-...