Clinical Guidelines for Primary Care

• New Vitamin D Recs: Testing, Supplementing, Dosing   Dr Neil Skolnik hits the highlights of the Endocrine Society's new guidance on who needs a vitamin D supplement (and who doesn't) and why testing isn't recommended.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 11, 2024
• Acute Sore Throat: When to Reach for the Antibiotics Complicated or uncomplicated, low or high risk, test or no test? Here's the consensus approach to acute sore throat in adults.
  Medscape Family Medicine, June 17, 2024
• Prostate Cancer Screening: What Does Your Patient Fear Most?   Dr Neil Skolnik distills available recommendations (including recent AUA guidance) to help clinicians and patients reach the preference-sensitive decision to skip or undergo prostate cancer screening.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 22, 2024
• Managing CKD in Primary Care: Latest Guidelines   An explosion of new treatments can stave off the need for dialysis in many patients with CKD.
  Medscape Family Medicine, April 10, 2024
• Atrial Fibrillation: Guideline Update for Primary Care   The latest guidelines address rate vs rhythm control, anticoagulation, and how to respond to device-detected AF.
  Medscape Family Medicine, March 08, 2024
• What's Changed in Asthma Treatment? Quite a Bit   For primary care, Dr Neil Skolnik highlights the essential asthma treatment changes in the latest GINA guidelines, and the four questions to ask to assess asthma control.
  Medscape Family Medicine, March 01, 2024
• Most Important Guideline Changes of the Year for Primary Care   The past year's top guideline changes that affect day-to-day practice of primary care.
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 17, 2024
• The Truth About Vaping   The idea that vaping is harmless is going up in smoke. What would you tell your own kids or grandkids about e-cigarette use?
  Medscape Family Medicine, December 11, 2023
• What Not to Prescribe to Older Adults and What to Use Instead   What's in? What's out? In the latest list of potentially inappropriate drugs, the Beers guidance emphasizes clinical judgment.
  Medscape Family Medicine, November 08, 2023
• Fatty Liver: A Primary Care Approach   Neil Skolnik reviews the latest guidelines for a condition that PCPs see a lot of but may be failing to notice.
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 09, 2023
• Chronic Coronary Disease: The Latest Recommendations   Dr Neil Skolnik reviews the latest guidelines for managing patients with stable coronary artery disease in primary care.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 12, 2023
• Breast Density Reporting: What It Means for Clinicians   The FDA now requires breast density reporting on all mammogram results sent to offices and patients.
  Medscape Family Medicine, August 14, 2023
• Medicine & Music: A Harmonious Journey With Dr Jeremy Faust   Dr Neil Skolnik talks with physician-musician Dr Jeremy Faust about how he balances a love of music and a busy emergency medicine career.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 05, 2023
• Menopausal Symptoms: What Works? What Doesn't?   Dr Neil Skolnik reviews the hormonal and nonhormonal options for relief of the vasomotor symptoms of menopause.
  Medscape Family Medicine, June 20, 2023
• HFpEF: New Guidelines Are Pertinent for Primary Care   New effective treatments for this common condition are briefly reviewed by Dr Neil Skolnik.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 19, 2023
• Osteoporosis and Osteopenia: Latest Treatment Recs   The American College of Physicians' guidelines for osteoporosis treatment are given a quick review by Dr Neil Skolnik.
  Medscape Family Medicine, April 24, 2023
• Treating Depression in Primary Care: The Latest Guidelines   Dr Neil Skolnik summarizes new guidelines for treating patients with depression.
  Medscape Family Medicine, March 21, 2023
• Can Amazon Deliver With 24/7 Primary Care?   Dr Neil Skolnik reflects on what traditional in-person primary care offers that differs from the care subscribers probably will experience with the retailer's new service.
  Medscape Family Medicine, February 28, 2023
• The New Blood Pressure Target in Primary Care   Dr Neil Skolnik discusses the rationale for the new lower blood pressure target for adults with hypertension.
  Medscape Family Medicine, February 02, 2023
• COPD: New, Simplified Treatment Guidelines   Dr Neil Skolnik reviews the new GOLD guidelines for management of COPD.
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 06, 2023