Family Practice News reaches 90,000 family medicine specialists, general practitioners and osteopaths twice a month and offers:

Incisive & Timely Medical Meeting Coverage
A team of over 60 professional journalists report from over 500 medical meetings each year. They attend the sessions and conduct the interviews that result in the news articles that physicians rely on to keep up to date on a wide range medical advances that they can use in their daily practices. Family Practice News reports late-breaking clinical trial results and specialty trends months before they are published in medical journals. Family physicians know that to keep current, they need to read every issue.

Expert Perspective and Commentary
The thought leaders of medicine contribute regularly to the columns and features in Family Practice News. "New and Approved" and “News From the FDA” features expert evaluations of recently approved drugs. "Drugs, Pregnancy, and Lactation" helps family physicians select safe therapeutic regimens for pregnant patients. “Clinical Guidelines for Family Physicians” gives practical advice for introducing guidelines into practice. Editorials and "Point/Counterpoint" features are lively physician forums. “Genomic Medicine” puts genetic advances into practice in the clinician‘s office.

Broad and Balanced News Coverage
Since 1971, Family Practice News has provided independent, unbiased coverage of the clinical, regulatory, legislative, and financial news of family medicine. We meet the broad-based practice needs of family physicians with sections on Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Rounds, Digestive Disorders, Geriatric Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Men’s Health, Mental Health Metabolic Disorders, Musculoskeletal Disorders, Pulmonary Medicine, Practice Trends, Skin Disorders, Sports Medicine, and Women’s Health. Family Practice News is respected by physician readers for its accuracy and credibility.

Practice Trends Goes Beyond Clinical News
Changes in reimbursement and other regulatory and legislative news that have an impact on medical practice are addressed in our Practice Trends section and our “Policy & Practice” column. “The Rest of Your Life” profiles physician lifestyles and “Indications” looks at the light side of medical news.

Readability & Reliability
Family physicians know they can depend on Family Practice News to deliver authoritative, specialty-relevant information with a focus on their practice needs. Advertisers and sponsors of supplements can rely on Family Practice News to reach this key primary care audience.

Kathryn DeMott, Editor
Family Practice News
Kathryn DeMott joined IMNG in 1997 as a medical reporter and then edited Rheumatology News from 2003 to 2005. From 1994 to 1997, she edited Report on Medical Guidelines and Outcomes Research, a bimonthly newsletter about evidence-based medicine published then by Capitol Publications Inc. She also was a contributing writer for ScienceNOW, an online daily news service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.