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Should High Blood Pressure be Treated?

Here is the main reason that ordinary people – and even some medical personnel – become confused on this issue. Studies that assess screening tests and medical treatments are often performed on very large groups of patients. The reason for this is that smaller studies, for reasons I cannot fully explain here, are simply not felt to be sufficiently reliable. This is why the Food and Drug Administration would never grant approval of a new medicine based on favorable results from small studies. If a benefit or a failure is shown in a high quality study with hundreds or thousands of participants, the results will be highly credible. It was large studies, for example that demonstrated that blood…

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The Annals of Family Medicine is a new peer-reviewed research journal to meet the needs of scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and the patients and communities they serve. The Annals seeks to identify and address important questions in health and the provision of patient-centered, prioritized, high-quality health care.

Education for Primary Care

Education for Primary Care is an excellent source for peer reviewed academic articles, high-quality evidence-based research, news and opinions on developments in primary care education. It also features tried and tested practical ideas and innovations to support primary care educators in their role.

Family Medicine

The Official Journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Family Medicine publishes original research, systematic reviews, narrative essays, and policy analyses relevant to the discipline of family medicine, particularly focusing on primary care medical education, health workforce policy, and health services research. We seek to be a forum for peer-reviewed scholarship regarding how to create a workforce to provide cost effective care to populations of people. The journal does not publish clinical review articles.

Family Medicine & Medical Science Research

Family Medicine & Medical Science Research is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, academic journal and aims to publish most complete and reliable source of information on the discoveries and current developments in the mode of original articles, review articles, case reports, short communications, etc. in all areas of the family medicine and medical research .

Family Medicine & Primary Care Review

The quarterly journal FAMILY MEDICINE & PRIMARY CARE REVIEW (formerly: Polska Medycyna Rodzinna) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal open to research workers in family medicine, primary care, and related fields, academic teachers, general practitioners/family doctors, and other primary health care professionals, as well as vocationally trained physicians, residents and medical students. The journal is also meant for those who carry out experimental and epidemiological research in other disciplines. Our mission is to lay the foundations for cooperation and an exchange of ideas, information and experience in family medicine/primary care that could involve all Central and Eastern Europe.

Family Medicine On-Line

The International Journal of Family Practice and American Family Physicians. Priory Medical Journals were founded in 1994 and are the world's first web based medical journals. The first of our journals was Psychiatry On-Line, our second Medicine Online in early January 1995.

Family Practice

Family Practice is an international journal aimed at practitioners, teachers, and researchers in the fields of family medicine, general practice, and primary care in both developed and developing countries. Family Practice offers its readership an international view of the problems and preoccupations in the field, while providing a medium of instruction and exploration. The journal's range and content covers such areas as health care delivery, epidemiology, public health, medical education, and medical sociology.

Family Practice Management

Family Practice Management (FPM) provides how-to advice on enhancing, improving, and managing your practice.

General Practice On-Line

Priory Medical Journals were founded in 1994 and are the world's first web based medical journals. The first of our journals was Psychiatry On-Line, our second Medicine Online in early January 1995. Each medical journal is available free to all medical and nursing staff.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Published since 1988, the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine ( JABFM ) is the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). Believing that the public and scientific communities are best served by open access to information, JABFM makes its articles available free of charge and without registration at www.jabfm.org.

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Primary Health Care Research & Development is the first journal aimed specifically at both researchers and practitioners in primary health care, bridging the gap between the two areas. It provides a forum for the publication of international, interdisciplinary research and development in primary health care. It is essential reading for all involved in primary care: nurse practitioners, GPs and health service managers; professional and local groups in community health; researchers and academics; purchasers of primary health care services; allied health practitioners in secondary services and health-related consumer groups.

World Family Medicine Journal

The aim of the journal is to provide academically sound, clinically practical information for family and general physicians, in addition to the promotion of the specialty of family medicine in the Middle East Region.

Annual Reviews

Provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 32 scientific disciplines.

BMC Family Practice

BMC Family Practice is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of primary health care, including clinical management of patients, professional training, shared decision making, and the organisation and evaluation of health care in the community.

International Journal of Clinical Practice

IJCP is a general medical journal. IJCP gives special priority to work that has international appeal. Its readership consists of clinicians and researchers. The journal’s original, varied and independently peer-reviewed articles and features attract the interest of clinicians in a wide variety of therapeutic areas.

International Journal of General Medicine

An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on general and internal medicine, pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment protocols. The journal is characterized by the rapid reporting of reviews, original research and clinical studies across all disease areas.

JAMA

JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world. The online version is made freely available to institutions in developing countries.

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Published since 1809, JRSM articles range from evidence-based reviews and original research papers to editorials and personal views. JRSM is an independent scientific and educational publication, which features well-argued debate and dissent on important clinical topics and, although UK-based, has articles of interest and relevance to clinicians internationally.

Journal Watch

Our mission is to help clinicians efficiently understand medical developments to improve patient care and foster professional development. NEJM Journal Watch equips today's caregivers with the information and perspective needed to be clinically prepared and practice with confidence. NEJM Journal Watch is used by practicing clinicians - physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, residents, students, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals - to stay informed and current in their fields.

Medical Journal of Australia

The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is Australia’s leading peer-reviewed general medical journal. It has been delivering ground-breaking research to the medical community since 1914. Published twice a month, with double issues in January and December (22 issues a year), the MJA covers all the important issues affecting Australian health care, publishing the latest Australian clinical research, evidence-based reviews, clinical practice updates, authoritative medical opinion and debate, and developments within the humanities with respect to medicine. The MJA encourages comment and debate from readers.

Medicine

Medicine® provides insight from leading scholars about the latest results in clinical investigation. Relevant to both hospital and office practice, the journal includes analytical reviews of Internal Medicine, Dermatology, Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry topics. Articles typically include original patient data from the author's own experience along with a scholarly review of the literature.

Medicine On-Line

Priory Medical Journals were founded in 1994 and are the world's first web based medical journals. The first of our journals was Psychiatry On-Line, our second Medicine Online in early January 1995. Each medical journal is available free to all medical and nursing staff.

New England Journal of Medicine

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM.org) is dedicated to bringing physicians the best research and key information at the intersection of biomedical science and clinical practice, and to presenting the information in an understandable and clinically useful format.

Postgraduate Medicine

Postgraduate Medicine is a rapid peer-reviewed medical journal published for physicians. Established in 1916 by Charles Mayo, MD, Postgraduate Medicine is a peer-to-peer method of communicating the latest research to aid the primary care physician when making treatment decisions. Our mission is to provide relevant, useful, and authoritative medical information to help physicians solve clinical problems and improve patient care.

Southern Medical Journal

As the official journal of the Birmingham, Alabama-based Southern Medical Association (SMA), the Southern Medical Journal (SMJ) has for more than 100 years provided the latest clinical information in the areas that affect patients’ daily lives. Now delivered to individuals exclusively online, the SMJhas a multidisciplinary focus that covers a broad range of topics relevant to physicians and other healthcare specialties in all relevant aspects of the profession...

The Lancet

The Lancet's prestigious heritage as one of the world's leading medical journals continues to inspire our authors and editors today as they strive for medical excellence in all that they publish. When Thomas Wakley founded The Lancet in 1823, he announced "A lancet can be an arched window to let in the light or it can be a sharp surgical instrument to cut out the dross and I intend to use it in both senses". This philosophy remains at the heart of the journal today.

American Family Physician

American Family Physician (AFP) is the AAFP’s clinical review journal for physicians and others in primary care.

American Journal of Medicine

The American Journal of Medicine - ?The Green Journal? - publishes original clinical research of interest to physicians in internal medicine, both in academia and community-based practice. The American Journal of Medicine is the official journal of The Association of Professors of Medicine, a prestigious group comprised of chairs of departments of internal medicine at more than 125 medical schools across the country. Each issue carries useful reviews as well as seminal articles of immediate interest to the practicing physician, including peer-reviewed, original scientific studies that have direct clinical significance, and position papers on health care issues, medical education, and public policy.

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

The American Journal of The Medical Sciences (AJMS), founded in 1820, is the 2nd oldest medical journal in the United States. The AJMS is the official journal of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (SSCI). The SSCI is dedicated to the advancement of medical research and the exchange of knowledge, information and ideas.

Australian Family Physician

Australian Family Physician is the official journal of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. AFP aims to provide relevant evidence based, clearly articulated information to Australian GPs to assist them in providing the highest quality patient care; applicable to the varied geographic and social contexts in which GPs work and to all GP roles as clinician, researcher, educator, practice team member and opinion leader.

BMJ

The BMJ (British Medical Journal) is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. Our "continuous publication" model means that all articles appear on bmj.com before being included in an issue of the print journal. The website is updated daily with the BMJ’s latest original research, education, news, and comment articles, as well as podcasts, videos, and blogs.

British Journal of General Practice

The British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) is a leading medical journal for family doctors and practitioners worldwide. We've been publishing high-quality research and commentary since 1953, and continue to provide a strong evidence base for general practice.

British Journal of Medical Practitioners

The BJMP is an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed medical journal whose primary focus is the continuing education of medical professionals around the world. TheBJMP provides the medical professionals free access to quality review articles, original research, editorials, case reports and letters to the editor to improve the clinicians’ diagnostic abilities, resulting in improved healthcare outcomes for their patients.

Canadian Family Physician

Canadian Family Physician (CFP), a peer-reviewed medical journal, is the official publication of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Our mission is to ensure that practitioners, researchers, educators and policy makers are informed on current issues and in touch with the latest thinking in the discipline of family medicine; to serve family physicians in all types of practice in every part of Canada in both official languages; to advance the continuing development of family medicine as a discipline; and to contribute to the ongoing improvement of patient care.

Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine

CJRM seeks to promote research into rural health issues, promote the health of rural and remote communities, support and inform rural practitioners, provide a forum for debate and discussion of rural medicine, provide practical clinical information to rural practitioners and influence rural health policy by publishing articles that inform decision-makers.

CMAJ

CMAJ has had significant impact on medicine and health care in Canada – and the world – over the last 102 years. In Canada, the journal has played a key role in raising awareness of health and medico-social issues on topics such as the link between sun exposure and skin cancer, the dangers of smoking, contraception, abortion, euthanasia and other topics. It celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2011.

Cochrane

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international network of more than 31,000 dedicated people from over 120 countries. We work together to help healthcare practitioners, policy-makers, patients, their advocates and carers, make well-informed decisions about health care, by preparing, updating, and promoting the accessibility of Cochrane Reviews — over 5,000 so far, published online in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, part of The Cochrane Library.

European Journal of General Practice

The European Journal of General Practice (EJGP) is the official journal of WONCA Europe, the European Society of General Practice/Family Medicine. The journal aims to: Foster scientific research in general practice/family medicine (GP/FM) and primary health care (PHC) in Europe, by the publication of original papers, short research reports and systematic reviews of the literature (‘evidence’), as well as papers on methodological issues...

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

The main mission of the Journal is to publish original, peer-reviewed research on topics related to general practice and primary care. We also publish editorials, discussion papers and reviews to facilitate continuing professional development in family medicine.

U.S. Medicine

U.S. Medicine is a monthly publication that serves healthcare professionals working in the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and U.S. Public Health Service. Each month U.S. Medicine provides 35,000 physicians, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and administrators with a mix of news, medical updates, interviews, reports on special government topics and monthly columns.