Sixty-seven closed or grade-I open fractures of the tibial shaft were examined in a prospective,
randomized, double-blind evaluation of use of a new ultrasound stimulating device as an …

A multicenter, prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial was
conducted to test the efficacy of a specifically programmed, low-intensity, non-thermal, pulsed …

A low intensity ultrasound device was investigated as an accelerator of cortical and cancellous
bone fracture healing in smokers and non-smokers. Statistically significant reductions in …

PURPOSE Loneliness has important health consequences. Little is known, however, about
loneliness in primary care patient populations. This study describes the prevalence of …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Missed appointments can create financial, capacity, and
continuity issues in primary care. An urban family medicine residency teaching clinic with a …

Historically, family physicians moved among all the venues of medical care— office, hospital,
community—and were a part of a connected professional community. That connected …

PURPOSE Recent national guidelines encourage a trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC) as
a means of increasing vaginal births after cesarean (VBACs) and decreasing the high US …

Just as China has struggled with bringing an expanding economy to a country with large areas
of economic underdevelopment, the Chinese health care system is experiencing tension …

Loneliness is associated with poor health outcomes, and there is growing attention on
loneliness as a social determinant of health. Our study sought to determine the associations …

PURPOSE General practitioners (GPs) are part of the US physician workforce, but little is
known about who they are, what they do, and how they differ from family physicians (FPs). We …