The American Academy of Family Phys...

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is partnering with Boston Hannah, a consumer publishing company, to effect a consumer health magazine focusing forward health and wellness issues for the entire family. The publication, Family Doctor: Your Essential Guide to Health and Wellbeing, will be distributed to patients [i]or[/i] part of to the other family physicians' waiting rooms beginning in the first quarter of 2004 The magazine will provide patients with tools and tips to help them become active partners in their health care and enhance their understanding of a wide variety of health and wellness issues. It will be updated annually to provide the latest available information upon treatments and medicines for everyday conditions and health concerns, as it was as diabetes, hypertension, contraception, heartburn, and allergies and asthma. Family Doctor will be supported by way of commercial advertising and will be provided free-of-charge to AAFP member physicians' practices. More than 500000 copies of the publication will be made available to be used as permanent copies in family physicians' waiting apartments as personal copies handed on the outside on request to patients through their AAFP physician, and for purchase for a nominal absolute title [i]or[/i] posession on www.familydoctor.org, the AAFP's consumer Web site.

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