“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 ...

Hair loss affects approximately 80 million people in the United States. Moderate to severe hair loss significantly affects quality of life and is associated with reduced work productivity, anxiety, ...

Many primary care physicians may find it impractical to have this nuanced discussion with so many other preventive care and chronic disease management topics to address in a typical office visit. In ...

Syncope accounts for almost 1% of all emergency department visits. 1 Although only approximately 10% of patients presenting with syncope have a serious underlying cardiac condition, nearly one-third ...

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 ...

• Weight loss, exercise, tai chi, and patient-directed activity programs can improve pain and function in knee and hip OA. • In knee and hip OA, intra-articular corticosteroid injections and oral and ...

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 ...

• Topical NSAIDs are the most effective intervention for acute musculoskeletal pain other than low back pain. • Although oral NSAIDs and acetaminophen are effective for acute pain relief, combining ...

• 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 ...

• PFP presents with retropatellar or peripatellar pain with knee flexion. • PFP is unlikely if squatting does not reproduce pain. • The most effective treatment for PFP are exercises that target ...