Search results for "Editor's Note"
Look to the community to bolster patient care
This issue also covers Alzheimer's disease, conference coverage from the Heart Failure Society of America, and whether heart failure is different in African-American patients
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/11/look-to-the-community-to-bolster-patient-care.htm
1 Nov 2019
Letters to the Editor
Amy E. Foxx-Orenstein, FACP.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/05/seven.htm
1 May 2008
Consider menopause's impact ‘beyond the bikini area’
While 80% of women have menopausal vasomotor symptoms, 70% of them go untreated.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/09/consider-menopauses-impact-beyond-the-bikini-area.htm
1 Sep 2023
It's a numbers game: How should physicians inform patients about risk?
A recent Annals of Internal Medicine article on risk communication highlighted the critical role of the physician in influencing patients' treatment decisions.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/02/editor.htm
1 Feb 2008
Alcohol treatment may be shifting to primary care
This issue covers topics such as the uptick of alcohol misuse treatment in primary care, the mind-body connection between mental health and heart disease, and ways in which patients can educate each other more effectively about lifestyle maintenance.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/10/editors.htm
1 Oct 2015
Rural prevention efforts face specific hurdles
This issue covers topics such as programs that improve rural health, effective advance care planning, and new tools such as precision medicine in clinical medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/09/editors.htm
1 Sep 2015
Internal Medicine Meeting 2015 breaks records
This issue wraps up coverage of the Internal Medicine Meeting 2015 from Boston.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/07/editors.htm
1 Jul 2015
Physicians not content to stick with the status quo
Health care access has become a top issue in 2008.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/05/four.htm
1 May 2008
Working toward health care one step at a time
While the presidential candidates debate different strategies for reforming the ailing U.S. health care system, ACP has been quietly working toward change.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/03/five.htm
1 Mar 2008
No easy fix for concussion diagnosis, management
This issue also covers medical school debt trends, changes to hospital payments, and how to construct a patient narrative.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/02/no-easy-fix-for-concussion-diagnosis-management.htm
1 Feb 2019