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Family Medicine — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed family medicine literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.

  1. 1d ago

    This Week in Family Medicine — Nov 1, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Intrinsic capacity decline and self-rated health in patients ≥ 65 years: a survey in general practice waiting rooms in Norway (Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 8 notable papers spanning ageing and cognition in general practice, health inequity and hard-to-reach patients, and the relationships and everyday activities that shape how patients fe… This week's papers: 1. A general practice-centred model for early diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease in Denmark: rationale, evidence and a pragmatic diagnostic approach. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 2. Identification of anxiety and depression in community-dwelling people with dementia: a multiperspective qualitative study. — British Journal of General Practice 2026 3. Intrinsic capacity decline and self-rated health in patients ≥ 65 years: a survey in general practice waiting rooms in Norway. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 4. Neighbourhood health inequity and the incidence of stroke and transient ischemic attack. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 5. Person-centred integrated primary care targeting patients with chronic conditions and low socioeconomic status: an interview study exploring experiences from h… — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 6. Uptake of Annual Health Checks in Primary Care for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis. — British Journal of General Practice 2026 7. Primary care utilization and satisfaction among people with cancer in Sweden: a cross-sectional survey study. — BMC Primary Care 2026 8. Cultural participation and self-reported health: a longitudinal population-based study from Sweden. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/msfcwmdtrw

  2. Oct 26

    This Week in Family Medicine — Oct 25, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Video Decision Support and Advance Care Planning in Older Adults With Advanced Kidney Disease: The VIDEO-KD Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning obesity and cardiometabolic therapeutics, screening and what happens after a diagnosis is made, and stewardship and shared decision-making in infection and s… This week's papers: 1. Obesity in Children Aged 2 to 12 Years: A Review. — JAMA 2026 2. Retatrutide Once Weekly for Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 3. Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor Use and Levels of Hemoglobin, Markers of Iron Metabolism, and Erythropoiesis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of… — JAMA 2026 4. Prevalence of ECG-detected and previously unrecognized atrial fibrillation among older adults attending a family health center: a single-center cross-sectional… — BMC Primary Care 2026 5. Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiovascular Conditions in Medicare Advantage In-Home Health Risk Assessments. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 6. Cost-Effectiveness of HCV Screening in Emergency Departments Using DETECT Hep C Trial Results. — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026 7. Overuse and False Restraint in Large Language Model Recommendations for Choosing Wisely Scenarios. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 8. Helicobacter pylori Infection - Advances, Challenges, and the Road Ahead. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 9. How do we monitor doxy-PEP impact and when should we consider revisiting guidelines? — PLOS Medicine 2026 10. Video Decision Support and Advance Care Planning in Older Adults With Advanced Kidney Disease: The VIDEO-KD Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/fcvgee4wav

  3. Oct 19

    This Week in Family Medicine — Oct 18, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Non-Insulin-Treated Type 2 Diabetes (New England Journal of Medicine, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning chronic disease and prevention in primary care, substance use and withdrawal, and the brain and behaviour, from adult ADHD to insomnia and delirium. This week's papers: 1. Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Non-Insulin-Treated Type 2 Diabetes. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 2. Implementing the 2023 Canadian Thoracic Society guideline on pharmacotherapy in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care. — Canadian Family Physician 2026 3. How Would You Screen This 26-Year-Old Woman for Cervical Cancer? Grand Rounds Discussion From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 4. Increasing prescribing of acetylsalicylic acid in pregnancy: Program evaluation in Saskatchewan. — Canadian Family Physician 2026 5. Comparative Effectiveness of Phenobarbital vs Diazepam for Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome. — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026 6. The Rise of Adulterated 7-Hydroxymitragynine Kratom Products Creates Challenges for Health Care and Policy. — Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2026 7. Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: Emerging paradigm. — Canadian Family Physician 2026 8. Adult Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 9. An innovative hybrid cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia approach to insomnia treatment: a retrospective chart review study. — Family Practice 2026 10. Delirium. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/f36276ps7v

  4. Oct 12

    This Week in Family Medicine — Oct 11, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Pharmacologic Treatments for Females With Menopausal Vasomotor Symptoms: A Clinical Guideline From the American College of Physicians (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning the gap between screening and follow-through, the evidence behind common prescribing decisions, and big-picture frameworks for chronic conditions we manage e… This week's papers: 1. Smoking Cessation Among Underserved Patients Referred for Lung Cancer Screening: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 2. Evaluation of Intervention Strategies to Improve Follow-Up Colonoscopy After Abnormal FIT/FOBT Result: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026 3. Reclassification of office blood pressure categories according to the 2024 European Society of Cardiology guidelines and its implications for clinical practice… — BMC Primary Care 2026 4. Advance Care Planning for Black and White Older Adults With Serious Illness: The EQUAL ACP Randomized Trial. — JAMA 2026 5. Pharmacologic Treatments for Females With Menopausal Vasomotor Symptoms: A Clinical Guideline From the American College of Physicians. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 6. Oral small-molecule GLP-1RA safiglipron versus dapagliflozin in type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, active-comparator-controlled phase 3 trial. — Nature Medicine 2026 7. Temporary Cessation of DMARD Therapy and COVID-19 Supplemental Dose Vaccine Immunogenicity in Patients With Inflammatory Arthritis: The COVER Randomized Clinic… — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026 8. Effect of Fluvoxamine and Metformin for Fatigue in Patients With Long COVID : An Adaptive Randomized Trial. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 9. Strengthening health systems to prioritise, provide care, and prevent osteoarthritis: a roadmap for global health policy. — The Lancet 2026 10. Migraine. — The Lancet 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/wmmrg8xsuw

  5. Oct 5

    This Week in Family Medicine — Oct 4, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Cardiovascular safety of orforglipron versus insulin glargine in adults with type 2 diabetes at increased cardiovascular risk (ACHIEVE-4): a phase 3, event-driven, randomised, open-label, non-inferiority, active comparator trial (The Lancet, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning the fast-moving field of incretin-based metabolic drugs, what body weight does and does not tell us about risk, and conditions that primary care either misses… This week's papers: 1. Retatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 2. Survodutide Once Weekly in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 3. Cardiovascular safety of orforglipron versus insulin glargine in adults with type 2 diabetes at increased cardiovascular risk (ACHIEVE-4): a phase 3, event-dri… — The Lancet 2026 4. Effects of semaglutide on kidney disease in type 2 diabetes: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. — Nature Medicine 2026 5. Association between overweight and obesity and the frequency of general practice consultations among children aged 2-17 years: a French retrospective cohort st… — BJGP Open 2026 6. Histologic Features and Clinical Outcomes of Lean Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease. — JAMA 2026 7. 8 weeks versus 12 weeks of sofosbuvir-velpatasvir for treatment-naive, non-cirrhotic, chronic hepatitis C (RESOLVE): a multicentre, open-label, non-inferiority… — The Lancet 2026 8. The burden and long-term outcomes of diagnosed and underdiagnosed COPD across diverse communities from high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries: th… — The Lancet Global Health 2026 9. Irritable bowel syndrome. — Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/fzryb7zy84

  6. Sep 28

    This Week in Family Medicine — Sep 27, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Contemporary menopausal hormone therapy and thrombotic disease: nationwide nested case-control study (BMJ, 2026) This AudioScholar briefing is generated by artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and trainees. It is not medical advice. Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 7 notable papers spanning cardiovascular safety of two of the most commonly prescribed drug classes in general practice, a run of studies where the intervention didn't deliver what we… This week's papers: 1. Contemporary menopausal hormone therapy and thrombotic disease: nationwide nested case-control study. — BMJ 2026 2. QTc changes and early major adverse cardiovascular events associated with antidepressant treatment for major depressive disorder in adults: individual particip… — BMJ 2026 3. Impact of new guidelines for microbiological sampling on antibiotic prescribing patterns in general practice in the North Denmark Region: a retrospective pre-p… — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 4. Faecal microbiota transplantation in irritable bowel syndrome (REFIT2): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. — The Lancet 2026 5. Which aspects of continuity of care in primary care are associated with better self-rated health? A cross-sectional study among older adults in Berlin. — BMC Primary Care 2026 6. Chest auscultation - tradition and expectations Concerns and promises in the era of smart stethoscopes. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 7. Clinical Uses of Common Genetic Variants Associated with Common Diseases. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/r4tbhg6bmk

  7. Sep 21

    This Week in Family Medicine — Sep 20, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Colonoscopy Intervals and Colorectal Cancer Incidence after Adenoma Removal (New England Journal of Medicine, 2026) Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning cancer detection and surveillance, reproductive and allergy prevention trials, and the broader questions of sleep, global cardiometabolic inequity, and how w… This week's papers: 1. Colonoscopy Intervals and Colorectal Cancer Incidence after Adenoma Removal. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 2. Intrauterine Mepivacaine Instillation vs Placebo for Pain During IUD Placement: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 3. Trial of a Maternal Diet Rich in Eggs and Peanuts to Reduce Infant Allergy. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 4. Blood test trend versus single threshold abnormality to discriminate cancer from non-cancer in patients with unexpected weight loss: A retrospective cohort stu… — PLOS Medicine 2026 5. Global inequalities in cardiometabolic care and achievable cardiovascular risk reduction by wealth, region, and sex: a pooled analysis of individual participan… — The Lancet Global Health 2026 6. Explaining symptoms in general practice: a predictive processing framework for primary care consultations. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 7. Misaligned by design: evaluating and deploying generative AI for the real-world conditions of primary care: a Nordic and European perspective. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 8. Accelerometer-derived real-world sleep stages and risk of incident diseases: A UK Biobank cohort study and phenome-wide association analysis. — PLOS Medicine 2026 9. Precision prevention and early detection: framework for a new clinical cancer control pathway. — The Lancet 2026 10. Switch to injectable cabotegravir-rilpivirine given every 8 weeks in adolescents living with HIV with virological suppression in sub-Saharan Africa (LATA): a r… — The Lancet 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/bhyyv9yhex

  8. Sep 14

    This Week in Family Medicine — Sep 13, 2026

    Editor's Pick: Exploring high priority potentially inappropriate prescribing cascades in older adults: population level retrospective cohort study (BMJ, 2026) Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning prescribing safety and risk prediction in the older and chronically ill, acute presentations in the office — chest pain, skin infections and poisoning — and a… This week's papers: 1. Exploring high priority potentially inappropriate prescribing cascades in older adults: population level retrospective cohort study. — BMJ 2026 2. Simultaneous derivation, validation, and comparison of predictor hazard ratios for cardiovascular risk prediction equations in patients with diabetes from high… — BMJ 2026 3. Rheumatoid Arthritis in Adults: A Review. — JAMA 2026 4. Ruling out acute coronary syndrome in primary care: a diagnostic trial (POB-HELP). — British Journal of General Practice 2026 5. Advances in the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections. — BMJ 2026 6. Toxidromes. — Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2026 7. Influence of Physician Behaviors on How Patients Interpret Normal Test Results. — Annals of Family Medicine 2026 8. Immunogenicity of fractional one-fifth and one-half doses of 17DD yellow fever vaccine compared with full dose in children aged 9-23 months in Uganda: a phase… — The Lancet 2026 9. Inhaled siRNA therapy targeting RAGE for pulmonary inflammation: a first-in-human randomized trial. — Nature Medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/pskyf727k7

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