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Why Aren’t More PCPs Offering Contraceptive Services?

Medscape Medical News January 9, 2025

Experts say the primary care workforce is well suited to meet patients’ contraceptive needs but the numbers of primary care physicians offering prescriptions and procedures is strikingly low.
Scientific Publications Face Credibility Crisis

Medscape Medical News January 9, 2025
Dietary Calcium Cuts Colorectal Cancer Risk by 17%

Medscape News UK January 8, 2025

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What’s the Best Approach for Sustained Weight Loss?

News January 10, 2025

With nutritional, pharmaceutical, and surgical options available for obesity, clinicians are being called upon to make decisions about how to best help their patients lose weight and keep it off.
Key Updates in Early Breast Cancer From SABCS 2024

ReCAP January 9, 2025
Simple Text Reminders Help Increase Vaccine Uptake

Commentary January 9, 2025
hMPV: Is There Cause for Concern?

News January 9, 2025
China Discovers Cluster of New Mpox Strain

News January 9, 2025
Skills Lab: Assessing the Introduction and Methods Sections

Commentary January 8, 2025
The Year’s Notable Guidelines: Highlights for Primary Care

Commentary January 8, 2025
US to Build New Stockpile of Bird Flu Vaccine for Poultry

News January 8, 2025

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Skill Checkup: A Man Switching HIV PrEP

Skill Checkup January 9, 2025

A 38-year-old man in an on-and-off relationship with a man who is HIV-positive (controlled with antiretroviral therapy) wants to switch PrEP. How would you manage this patient?
Rapid Review Quiz: Pertussis Recognition and Management

Interactive Quiz January 6, 2025
A 71-Year-Old Man With Severe Epigastric Pain After Fatty Meals

Case Challenge January 2, 2025
Fast Five Quiz: HER2+ Breast Cancer

Fast Five Quiz December 26, 2024

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AI and the Art of Nursing

Medscape Medical News January 10, 2025

As artificial intelligence makes its way to nursing, nurses navigate between cutting-edge technology and the human touch.
Incentives Do Not Boost Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance

Medscape Medical News January 9, 2025
Inventory System Supplier Settles Anti-Kickback Claim

Medscape Medical News January 9, 2025
Scientific Publications Face Credibility Crisis

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